TNT Express is in advanced talks on a contract to collect completed loan applications from homes.
The work, for a financial services company, will fix one hour time windows for collection after the applications have been signed.
DHL today announced plans to build its largest US service center facility in New York City, New York. The USD181 Million investment will consolidate two existing service center locations into a new 161,125-sq.-ft. facility to serve Manhattan pickup, delivery and sorting operations. Strategically located to provide rapid egress and regress through below-grade access through the Lincoln Tunnel, the new service center will increase throughput capacity from 10,000 to 15,000 pieces per hour. “DHL is continually looking for ways to improve and enhance service through investments in our US operations,” said Mark Munoz, senior area vice president of operations for DHL. “This new facility will serve as our gateway to the New York City market and with the strategic location near the Lincoln Tunnel will provide enhanced service levels for all of our local customers as well as accommodate growth for the next twenty years.”
Read MoreThe US Postal Service is changing the way it moves mail to soldiers and others in the Middle East by signing a large contract with Kalitta Air. Kalitta Air beat out four other bidders for the contract requiring it to deliver all the mail to the Middle Easter each day, which will necessitate the use of subcontracted carriers as well. Five-year-old Kalitta, which is headed by industry veteran Conrad “Connie” Kalitta, had already been carrying a substantial portion of the mail to the region, but the new contract gives them more responsibility beyond just moving the mail. The Postal Service moves, literally, tons of packages and letters to Iraq, Afghanistan and other countries in the region each day. The agency says it moves 200,000 pounds of military mail daily to the Persian Gulf region. “You name it, they get it,” Postal Service Vice President of Network Operations Paul Vogel said in an interview.
Read MoreYou shouldn’t expect rival posties scrapping on your doorstep, a choice of different companies’ stamps or new post boxes springing up next to the Royal Mail’s signature red pillar boxes. But on new years’ day, the UK brought the last great government-owned monopoly, that on post, to an end, liberalising a market worth GBP6.5bn (USD11.4bn, E9.14bn). Any company can collect, sort and deliver letters of any size.
It’s hard to understand why it took so long. As far back as 1970, before Margaret Thatcher had put it on the political radar, the Institute of Economic Affairs published a monograph – The Postal Service: Competition or Monopoly – arguing that the Royal Mail’s then 320-year monopoly be scrapped. But the writer, Ian Senior, a postal economist who runs Triangle Management Services, has had to wait his whole career for it to happen.
Read MoreInterparcel, an online firm offering discounted parcels services with most of the leading international carriers, says it has taken 50,000 orders in its first eight months of trading.
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