How do you reform the U.S. Postal Service to insure it thrives and survives without stepping on too many toes? Congress knows it ain’t easy. There are many who support needed changes – for example, the two biggest U.S. express delivery companies support reform – but only as long as it doesn’t infringe on their business territories.
Read MoreFedEx 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.
Read MoreShort 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
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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.
Read MoreIn a letter to Senate Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Susan Collins, the General Accounting Office (GAO) agreed with her assessment that comprehensive — not incremental — postal reform is needed to ensure the US Postal Service’s future viability.
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