The U.S. Postal Service has reached agreements with many of its major customers on a plan to raise postal rates June 30, three months earlier than projected, bringing a swifter infusion of money to the financially struggling agency.
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Read MoreThe U.S. Postal Service is near an agreement with FedEx Corp. that would increase the amount of Priority Mail transported on FedEx planes.
Read MoreThe U.S. Postal Service has selected trucking giant Consolidated Freightways (Nasdaq:CFWY) to manage all USPS non-mail LTL freight delivery in the continental U.S.
The contract comes with options that allow the USPS to extend the partnership through February 2012, with a value of at least $9 million per year. The decision condenses the USPS LTL freight network from 20 national, regional, and local carriers to just one transportation provider.
The U.S. Postal Service has been unable to develop a unified and effective Internet and e-commerce strategy, mainly because of a “fragmented” management approach, says a new report issued by the U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO).
The report, released earlier this week, is a follow-up by the GAO on recommendations it gave to the Postal Service in September 2000 on updating its services for the Internet.
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