Keys To Direct Mail Success
Keys To Direct Mail Success – Jerold Heisler, President, The Heisler Group
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Direct Mail Market Overview
Direct Mail Market Overview – Nicholas F. Barranca, VP Product Development, USPS
Read MoreC H Robinson soars in third quarter
Reporting its third quarter results today C H Robinson Worldwide revealed that net revenues increased 5.6% to $113.2 million from $107.2 million in the same period last year. Operations income increased by 15.3% to $34.8 million from $30.2 million in 2000, while net income rose 22.6%
Read MoreGreens see red as UPS plans expansion
UPS is to pour more than US$100m (E117m) into expanding its Cologne hub, despite protests from environmentalists.
The US integrator will start construction at Konrad Adenauer airport in the third
quarter of next year, with completion expected in 2005.
A UPS spokesman said: ‘The building is being expanded to position us for the future. We are more than doubling the sort capacity from 60,000 to 135,000 packages an hour.”
Postal Service Shifts Much Mail Off Passenger Jets
The U.S. Postal Service has moved a large portion of items it usually ships in airplane “bellies” to trucking companies and commercial cargo airlines, as it faces new restrictions, the Wall Street Journal reported in its online edition on Tuesday.
The move comes after the introduction of new Federal Aviation Administration rules requiring most cargo carried on passenger planes to be screened for explosives, the report said.
The new rules do not just affect the airlines, they also affect the companies that ship items on passenger airlines, the report said.
According to the report, the FAA has not disclosed the specific new regulations, and postal officials will not publicly comment on the rules.
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