The U.S. Postal Service have announced that FedEx Express, will on July 1 take over the delivery of its overseas Global Express Guaranteed packages from DHL Worldwide Express.
“About 7,400 Postal Service locations will offer the new co-branded service. As demand for this product grows, so will the number of Postal Service access points,” the USPS said.
Read MoreUTi Worldwide Inc. have announced that a partnership, 74.9% owned by UTi and 25.1% to be owned by a South African black economic empowerment organization, has completed the acquisition of International Healthcare Distributors (Pty.) Limited (IHD) for the purchase price of $40 million in cash, including a loan of $17 million from UTi to the partnership.
Read MoreCompetition over parcels, the real growth area of the air express business these days, has become a major sticking point on a law that restructure the way the USPS handles its business and its role in the marketplace.
Groups representing package shippers say the private express carriers successfully pushed a House committee to add new requirements on the USPS that would put the Postal Service disadvantage in the parcel delivery market.
In dozens of countries around the world, Pitney Bowes Inc. has woven an unbreakable connection to mail.
It started as a postal meter company in 1920. Today, Stamford-based Pitney Bowes makes sorters that separate letters by postal codes. It writes and sells software that enables small and large businesses to post mail, ship packages and track where those packages have landed. Pitney Bowes even has become a post office for postal companies: collecting, sorting and organizing the shipment of outgoing mail even for United Parcel Service, FedEx and the U.S. Postal Service.
Read MoreThe United States Postal Service have announced the signing of a licensing agreement with Estafeta USA Inc., a leading private courier company in Mexico, which allows the company limited usage of the U.S. Postal Service logo.
Estafeta USA Inc. links to the U.S. Postal Service domestic delivery network by clearing inbound packages originating in Mexico through U.S. Customs, transporting them into the United States, and tendering them to the U.S. Postal Service at the McAllen, Texas post office as domestic Priority Mail.
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