UPS Logistics Group, a subsidiary of United Parcel Service, is now providing fully automated, self-service parts distribution. Customers can now pick up or return parts 24 hours a day, seven days a week with this new technology. It enables access to secured UPS Logistics Group storage facilities.
Read MoreAfter years of being held hostage by United Parcel Service’s virtual monopoly on package delivery, shippers are looking to several relatively new competitors for rescue. But while Federal Express’s FedEx Home Delivery ground service and the U.S. Postal Service’s Parcel Select are options, UPS still retains supremacy.
To be sure, UPS’s stranglehold on the standard parcel delivery catalog market has loosened during the past five years. Credit–or blame–goes primarily to its annual rate increases, which have averaged 4%-5%. Among the mailers participating in CATALOG AGE’s 2001 Benchmark Report on Operations (see the March 15 issue), UPS was the standard-delivery shipper of choice for 50%. But 78% of the respondents to the survey five years earlier had named UPS their primary carrier.
Read MoreAn annual survey selected United parcel Service as the world’s best logistics company. The company has lured international customers from rival Federal Express with an electronic tagging system characterized by flexibility in a move to reduce shipment and inventory costs.
Read MoreIn the modern world, the easiest and most convenient way to send a message is via e-mail or through sophisticated data networks. Does that portend an end to physical mail, an event that has been predicted for two decades? Not quite.
Despite the quantum leap in technology during the past decade, corporations, universities and government agencies still send, receive and process millions of pieces of traditional, expedited and packaged mail annually. In many mailrooms, manual labor and considerable resources are utilized to process parcels.
Read MoreLanLogistics, a subsidiary of LanChile S.A., and The United States Postal Service announced a new partnership created to enhance trade in the Americas.
Together the two organizations will provide fast, economical and reliable shipping service from countries throughout Latin America, Mexico and the Caribbean to final destinations in the United States.
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