Tag: USA

Procedure under NAFTA lets UPS attack Canada Post in Secret

Posted by | Mar 13, 2002 | |

Trade ministers from the United States, Canada and Mexico last year tried to impose greater openness on a procedure under NAFTA that allows companies to sue governments for millions in monetary damages, but the effort has so far failed. As a result, United Parcel Service Inc. is now using the procedure to attack one of its major competitors, Canada Post, in relative secrecy, angering anti-NAFTA activists and the Canadian government.

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US Postmaster discusses deficit

Posted by | Mar 13, 2002 | |

The Postal Service is facing a loss of more than $2 billion this year as mail volume lags and costs of sanitizing the mail and cleaning up contaminated offices mount.
Postmaster General John E. Potter told a House Appropriations subcommittee Wednesday that the projected deficit for this year is “somewhere above $2 billion.”
Potter said the agency is hoping the Postal Rate Commission will accelerate consideration of a rate increase so the higher prices can take effect this summer rather than in the fall as planned.
The post office is seeking a 3-cent increase in the price of sending a letter, to 37 cents.

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Menlo Worldwide – A new star in the logistics sky

Posted by | Mar 11, 2002 | |

The new brand “Menlo Worldwide” will assure the American CNF group of its place among the world’s top logistics firms. In contrast, the old Emery logo is on the way out. ITJ editor-in-chief Ursula Schmeling recently spoke with John H. Williford, President and CEO of Menlo Worldwide, in Amsterdam about his business strategy.
Mr Williford, why has CNF chosen the relatively unknown Menlo brand for the joint identity of the three CNF subsidiaries, instead of the better known Emery logo:

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