Tag: USPS

US FedEx chief urges federal reforms

Posted by | Mar 12, 2004 | |

FedEx chairman Frederick W. Smith told a Senate panel looking at postal reform Thursday that it has two choices: Liquidate the Postal Service as technology encroaches on its primary business or force it to compete.

Smith, whose Memphis-based package delivery and logistics company is both in partnership and in competition with the 750,000-employee government mail-delivery giant, laid out a list of proposals aimed at improving service, adjusting Postal Service pricing structures and ending the USPS monopoly by 2008.

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2004 WMA Industry Leadership Award nominees

Posted by | Mar 8, 2004 | |

Short backgrounds on the five nominees for the 2004 Industry Leadership Award:

Peter Bakker – TNT Post Group/TPG
Helge Israelson – Post Denmark
Graeme John – Australia Post
Jack Potter – USPS
Elmar Toime – Royal Mail
P:LibraryPostal2004 WMA Industry Leadership Award nominees.pdf

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USPS seeks more inclusive co-palletisation test

Posted by | Mar 2, 2004 | |

The U.S. Postal Service filed a request with the Postal Rate Commission that it hopes will open its co-palletization test to more mailers.

The co-palletization program, begun last April, gives mailers of small circulation periodicals the same work-sharing discounts enjoyed by large mailers when they combine bundles/packages of different periodicals on the same pallet and drop-ship them to an area distribution center or sectional center facility.

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USPS seeks anti-terrorism funds

Posted by | Feb 27, 2004 | |

Postmaster General John Potter appealed to Congress to provide anti-terrorism funds the Bush administration failed to include in its budget for next year. Potter asked for USD779 million to help the agency buy and install systems to detect biological agents and poisons, and new ventilation and filtration systems, in 282 mail handling centers across the country.

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