Tag: USA

USPS Tests After-Hours Mail Pickup

Posted by | Apr 29, 2002 | |

The U.S. Postal Service began testing an after-hours mail pickup system this month for packages that could not be delivered during normal business hours. Currently, after an unsuccessful package delivery attempt, customers must request redelivery or pick up the package at their local post office during normal operating hours. The pilot program consists of a vertical carousel, a touch screen and a barcode reader. Undeliverable parcels are loaded into a carousel in an area accessible to the public 24 hours a day. The mail carrier scans each piece’s barcode, which corresponds to a barcode left with the attempted-delivery notice at the customer’s residence. The carousel holds up to 300 packages, but can be scaled for 800. Customers can pick up their packages by scanning the barcode on their attempted-delivery notice into the carousel’s barcode reader. Customers then must swipe a credit card for identification. There is no charge for the service.

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FedEx Keeps Delivering

Posted by | Apr 26, 2002 | |

Fedex has launched an aggressive ground war against UPS. Fedex, long known for its next day airborne business-package deliveries, has started to encroach on UPS’s prime territory: ground shipping by truck to homes and businesses

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EU pushes for chance to deliver U.S. Mail

Posted by | Apr 26, 2002 | |

The European Union is demanding that foreign companies be allowed to compete with the U.S. Postal Service as part of World Trade Organization talks that began last year.
According to a draft copy of its demands obtained by The Washington Times, Europe also wants access to American markets for municipal water and waste services. It also will call for foreign companies to be given access to Small Business Administration loans.

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Lynx & USPS partnership

Posted by | Apr 26, 2002 | |

LYNX Express and the United States Postal Service are now offering a ange of new logistics products to the transatlantic market. This article explores the potential of the partnership and how these two organisations are combining to provide the simplest way to the USA.
In recent years the worlds’ postal services have been diversifying in a drive to augment their traditional mail and light package activities with logistics and enhanced physical distribution operations. It is therefore no surprise that the largest of these players, the United States Postal Service, is extending its proposition with a series of alliances across the globe.

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UPS Says Postal Service Wields Unfair Advantage

Posted by | Apr 25, 2002 | |

If you’re going to compete like a private business, you shouldn’t also have the advantages of a federal agency.

That’s the message United Parcel Service is sending to Congress. Earlier this month, the U.S. Postal Service submitted a financial transformation plan to Congress that would allow it to operate more in the manner of a for-profit business.

“They want to go in and offer negotiated service agreements that target larger shippers that we already does business with,” UPS spokesman Bruce D.D. MacRae said. “They also subsidize their first-class mail to offset pricing flexibility for their package delivery.” The government agency is UPS’s biggest competitor, MacRae said, and the federal agency already operates with inherent advantages.

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