Applied Digital Solutions, an advanced technology development company, have announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Government Telecommunications, Inc. (GTI), has been awarded a contract option valued at USD25 million from the United States Postal Service to upgrade telecommunications networks at 108 Postal Service facilities.
Read MoreThe U.S. Postal Service is moving forward on its proposal to offer customers two Priority Mail Flat-Rate Box options. In a filing with the Postal Rate Commission, the Postal Service is seeking approval of the Flat-Rate Box proposal, which if approved, will reinforce the Postal Service’s commitment to meeting customers’ needs for simplicity and convenience when sending packages.
Read MoreThe U.S. Postal Service have announced that FedEx Express, will on July 1 take over the delivery of its overseas Global Express Guaranteed packages from DHL Worldwide Express.
“About 7,400 Postal Service locations will offer the new co-branded service. As demand for this product grows, so will the number of Postal Service access points,” the USPS said.
Read MoreCompetition over parcels, the real growth area of the air express business these days, has become a major sticking point on a law that restructure the way the USPS handles its business and its role in the marketplace.
Groups representing package shippers say the private express carriers successfully pushed a House committee to add new requirements on the USPS that would put the Postal Service disadvantage in the parcel delivery market.
The United States Postal Service have announced the signing of a licensing agreement with Estafeta USA Inc., a leading private courier company in Mexico, which allows the company limited usage of the U.S. Postal Service logo.
Estafeta USA Inc. links to the U.S. Postal Service domestic delivery network by clearing inbound packages originating in Mexico through U.S. Customs, transporting them into the United States, and tendering them to the U.S. Postal Service at the McAllen, Texas post office as domestic Priority Mail.
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