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USPS proposes rule on postage meters

Posted by | May 10, 2004 | |

The USPS has proposed a rule that would amend the regulations that define a postage meter and its components and a manufacturer and/or distributor of postage meters.

The proposed rule also puts forth the responsibilities of any authorized person or entity to notify the USPS upon a change in ownership or control, or bankruptcy or insolvency, and identifies factors the USPS will consider in acting upon requests for changes of approval or ownership or control of an approved manufacturer or distributor.

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FDX Ground Facility Tour -notes from Bear Stearns

Posted by | May 7, 2004 | |

FDX Ground Facility Tour. On Thursday, we toured FedEx Ground’s 500,000 square foot Woodbridge, NJ facility, its third largest hub by volume, processing over 30,000 packages per hour. In the next eighteen months, management estimates that its New Jersey hub will grow to be the largest Ground facility by volume, eclipsing its hub in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
Note from Barry Hansen: note that FDX Ground has won the LL Bean home delivery contract. Bean is the largest cataloge operator in the U.S. These are the types that the Donnelley Logisitics operation should win.

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ABX Air chief wants DHL operations consolidated in Ohio

Posted by | May 7, 2004 | |

The top executive of a company that operates overnight package delivery flights near here says he hopes another air carrier opts to move similar operations to Wilmington.

The consolidation would make sense because the air freight hub near Wilmington run by ABX Air Inc. can handle more packages than DHL’s operations at the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport, said Joseph C. Hete, ABX’s president and chief executive.

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US franchises feel boxed in at UPS

Posted by | May 7, 2004 | |

United Parcel Service has seen its profitability rise dramatically in the year since rebranding 3,300 postal and business service retailer Mail Boxes Etc. (MBE) nationwide into UPS Stores, but the same is not true for some outlets, even with the increased shipping volumes.

Some UPS Stores are struggling with lower margins brought on by the standardisation of lower shipping rates across the board mandated by parent company UPS in the conversion without accounting for the wide discrepancy in rents, insurance rates, and other costs that have to be borne by franchise owners.

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