Andrew Lester & Associates has just delivered the first of four sets of research findings on the UK parcels and packets market in 2002. The PacTrac Programme is a continuous market monitoring study that reports quarterly on parcel and packet shipments, carriers used and types of service levels required.
Read MoreDeclines in the amount of mail being sent continue to plague the post office, which lost $281 million in the last three months. That, however, was a smaller loss than had been expected, the agency said, largely due to cost cutting.
Read MoreThe Air Courier Conference of America (ACCA) today applauded the fact that the U.S. government has once again highlighted express delivery services as one of the key sectors for which it is seeking liberalizations through the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) General Agreement on Trade in Services negotiations. The U.S. today issued its requests for express delivery and other services to the WTO.
Read MoreThe cost of sending a first-class letter (in the US) will rise on Sunday by 3 cents, to 37 cents, as part of a broad postage increase. A postcard will cost 23 cents to mail, or 2 cents more. The independent Postal Rate Commission approved the changes in domestic postage in March.
Read MoreThe U.S. Postal Service may soon file a negotiated service agreement with the Postal Rate Commission, postal officials said yesterday at the ratemaking summit in Potomac, MD. USPS chief marketing officer Anita J. Bizzotto said the agency “is getting close to signing on with a company,” though she did not offer specifics.
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