ORLANDO, April 5, 2012 – The UPS Store ® franchise network (NYSE:UPS) has been honored by the U.S. Postal Service® at the National Postal Forum here for its participation in Every Door Direct Mail®, which provides small businesses with a cost-effective way to send direct mail. Last year, The UPS Store announced it was collaborating […]
Some UPS customers said the U.S. Postal Service and Fed-Ex had no problems delivering their packages these past few days. Thousands of people in the metro area will open their presents a little late this year because the day started out with 50,000 packages in limbo at the United Parcel Service holding facility in Commerce […]
Retail Outlets Offering Affordable Direct Mail Program from Print to Distribution San Diego, September 22, 2011 – The UPS Store ® (NYSE: UPS) and the U.S. Postal Service ® are working together to provide small businesses with a new, cost-effective direct mail program. By identifying geographic areas by city, neighborhood or a specified distance from […]
“PMG Pat Donahoe appeared recently on “The Kudlow Report,” to represent the Postal Service’s position on the need for congressional action to address the USPS requirement to pre-fund retiree health benefits, frequency of delivery and allow the Postal Service to access overpayments to the Civil Service Retirement System and Federal Employees Retirement System. Donahoe explains […]
Jun. 13, 2011 (Business Wire) UPS (NYSE: UPS) today unveiled UPS Returns® Exchange, a combined delivery and pick-up service that gives businesses more control over their reverse logistics for high priority products. The new service, unveiled at the Interlog 2011 Summer conference here, is particularly suited to shippers in the high-tech, healthcare and retail industries. […]
The Postal Service is closing post offices across the nation in an effort to save money. But it seems a trend is starting by UPS Inc to open up stores in places where USPS is shutting down. If UPS opens stores in areas where the Postal Service has shut down–USPS could possibly lose many of […]
In an editorial by the Concord (New Hampshire) Monitor they wrote: The postal service has since the 1980s operated as an “independent establishment of the executive branch” and, as such, is expected to be self-supporting. For the most part, it is. But in exchange for its monopoly on first and third-class mail, it is charged […]
FedEx transports Express, Priority and First Class Mail, and earned postal revenues of $1.373 billion (corrected) in fiscal 2010. While at the top of the list, FedEx’s postal revenues declined from a high point of over $1.6 billion. Another postal competitor, United Parcel Service (UPS) , is the Postal Service’s 12th (corrected) largest postal supplier, […]
Will this new requirement give USPS more business? UPS is now requiring photo identification from customers shipping packages at retail locations around the world, a month after explosives made it on to one of the company’s planes. The Atlanta-based package courier said Tuesday the move is part of an ongoing review to enhance security. The […]
The United States Postal Service has awarded UPS a $280 Million four-year contract for “air transportation and terminal handling services in support of a nationwide air transportation network.” The day after USPS awarded the contract, UPS issued this press release on opening a new state of the art mail processing center: UPS Mail Innovations Opens […]