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Azure Dynamics Corporation, a leading developer of hybrid electric powertrains for commercial vehicles and United States Postal Service, the world’s leading provider of mailing and delivery services, are pleased to announce the signing of an agreement whereby Azure will test and retrofit two USPS vehicles with Azure’s “Smart Energy Management” hybrid technology.

Azure will develop a prototype gas hybrid electric powertrain for USPS’s carrier route vehicle (CRV) as well as a prototype diesel hybrid electric powertrain for the USPS two-ton step van. USPS operates approximately 140,000 CRV’s and 10,000 step vans.

The U.S. Postal Service intends to use $10 billion in retirement fund overpayments to set up a health benefit account for its more than 800,000 employees, the Postal Service’s chief financial officer said September 30, 2003.

Richard Strasser said the money would lay the foundation for a health benefit retirement program estimated to cost more than $40 billion.

If you order merchandise on the Internet or by catalog, you probably know that returning items can be more difficult than getting them in the first place.

USPS is set to launch a two-year test of Parcel Return Services (PRS) that will make it easier for consumers to return items at very competitive prices for merchants. PRS will work like drop-shipping in reverse.