San Francisco Chronicle--$1.4 billion. That's how much money the U.S. Postal Service paid FedEx to deliver mail via cargo jets in fiscal 2010. FedEx carries express, priority and first-class mail on its... View More
The Journal of Commerce--The Cass Freight Index for U.S. domestic shipments inched up 0.7 percent in December over the previous year, signaling new stability in shipping demand after the market slipped... View More
The White House Announces Federal and Private Sector Commitments to Provide Employment Opportunities for Nearly 180,000 Youth Today, the White House announced Summer Jobs+, a new call to action for... View More
Air Cargo World--Despite recently approved free-trade agreements with Colombia, South Korea and Panama, only 24 percent of small- and mid-sized businesses in the U.S. are currently engaged in international... View More
Multichannel Merchant--The fourth-annual Free Shipping Day was a billion-dollar day for ecommerce, though it wasn't a big deal for email marketers. According to info it posted on the website Freeshippingday.org,... View More
Journal of Commerce--Real estate firm Clarion Partners and the real estate arm of DHL Supply Chain, with an unnamed client as partner, will develop three logistics facilities totaling 1.4 million square-feet... View More
Multichannel Merchant--During the height of the recession and since, multichannel merchants have succeeded to varying degrees at reducing and better containing operational expenses. Unfortunately, as economic... View More
m.logistics--Mobility solutions are proving to be the key to reducing costs and improving customer service in the notoriously competitive and demanding parcels delivery sector. Parcels carriers have been... View More
New Hyde Park, NY (January 2012) – Associated Global Systems (AGS), one of the leading U.S. based transportation and logistics providers, is pleased to announce they have been awarded the coveted... View More
America's political leaders have recognized the importance of U.S. exports to the economy and just recently approved three free trade agreements, but a new survey shows more needs to be done to educate... View More
Courier, Express & Postal Observer--The Postal Service has put up a placeholder for the GoPost log-in page. This is what the body of the page now looks like. It looks like... View More
Memphis Business Journal--The federal government is suing FedEx Corp. for alleged violations of Federal Aviation Administration regulations in 2008 and is seeking $1.55 million in civil penalties. Michelle... View More
Post&Parcel--UPS has ordered eight sorting machines from German engineering giant Siemens as it expands its European hub at Cologne/Bonn Airport. Siemens said the order of eight Variosort EXB 120 cross-belt... View More
MEMPHIS, Tenn., Dec. 20, 2011 – FedEx Corp. (NYSE: FDX) has launched a range of new tools and expansions to the suite of FedEx Mobile applications just in time for the holidays, making shipping-on-the-go... View More
December 19, 2011 -- Chelmsford, MA – Kewill, Inc. (LSE: KWL) today announced acquisition of the Shipping Expense Management System (SEMS™) from Pointandship Software, Inc. Terms of the transaction... View More
Courier, Express & Postal Observer-Paul Page, an editor with the Journal of Commerce, tweeted today “Trying to understand why Bloomberg sys FedEx 2q profit up on stronger consumer shipments when... View More
UPS (NYSE: UPS) made low-carbon and adopting a green lifestyle the theme of its 2011 "UPS Global Volunteer Month", during which 1,649 UPS employees and their family members participated in 57 volunteer... View More
Today UPS (NYSE: UPS) kicks off its busiest week of the year, prepared to help retailers and shoppers by delivering more than 120 million packages worldwide over the next six days. Thursday, Dec. 22, will... View More
A review of the performance of universal postal service providers by the Oxford Strategic Consulting (OSC) firm has named USPS the best postal service within the world’s top 20 largest economies... View More
Seeking Alpha--The news flow coming out about the Postal Service may seem like a beautiful gift to any holder of UPS (UPS) stock. The Postal Service has already made announcements that it will close hundreds... View More
