5/22/2020 CLEVELAND, Ohio — Our ability to click online to have everything from gourmet pasta to prescription drugs shipped directly to our homes has made the coronavirus shutdown easier to bear. But all those extra packages are creating holiday-level headaches for the U.S. Postal Service. “Our package volume has increased 70% due to (Gov. Mike […]
A brazen home invasion in Brooklyn, New York, earlier this week is a reminder to many to be careful letting delivery workers into your home, because they might not be who they say they are. Impersonating delivery workers or repair personnel is surprisingly easy to do and many similar outfits are available online. Inside Edition’s […]
Amazon Co-founds The Climate Pledge, Setting Goal to Meet the Paris Agreement 10 Years Early Commits to net zero carbon by 2040 and 100% renewable energy by 2030 Orders 100,000 fully-electric delivery vehicles, the largest order ever for electric delivery vehicles Invests $100 million in reforestation projects around the world to begin removing carbon from […]
4/10/17 NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — A postal worker was caught on surveillance video making an apparent half-hearted attempt to alert a Queens family about a package delivery.| The video shows the mail carrier pull up to Jamal Williams’s home in Rochdale, Queens and get out of his truck with what appears to be a slip […]
July 5, 205 USPS mail carriers are getting a “panic button” The unofficial U.S. postal creed says neither rain, nor sleet, nor heat, nor gloom of night will keep carriers from their rounds. Thieves and vicious dogs, however, may be another matter. So the Post Office is delivering a solution. The unofficial U.S. postal creed […]
USPS OIG:Geo-Fence Technology in Delivery Operations Geo-Fence Technology in Delivery Operations takes effect on September 30th. Here are excerpts from the USPS OIG report: [More…] The U.S. Postal Service is developing and pilot testing the Delivery Management System to improve carrier efficiency during street delivery. This system combines Global Positioning System data and other data […]
Company has added more than 1,100 ZIPs in 2014 For the second time in five months, UPS® (NYSE: UPS), will boost its competitive advantage by expanding its coverage area for early morning deliveries. The company will add another 766 UPS Next Day Air Early A.M. ZIPs beginning July 21 after adding more than 400 earlier […]
CAMP LEATHERNECK, Afghanistan – The Marines of the Camp Leatherneck post office are few in number but have been working hard during the five months they have been deployed. Ensuring mail is delivered and picked up from all service members and civilians working in Regional Command (Southwest), the Marines of the post office make postal […]
GSA awarded its third generation Domestic Delivery Service (DDS3) Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) to two leading suppliers in the package delivery industry: United Parcel Service (UPS) and Federal Express (FedEx). So what does this mean, exactly? Well DDS3 is a strategically sourced program designed to save taxpayer dollars and provide innovative services to the federal […]
Two words sum up this winter for me: brutal and relentless. A National Weather Service meteorologist has given Metro Detroit the number # 1 ranking in its “misery index.” Detroit has had 90.6 inches of snow so far this season; only 3 inches away from the all-time recorded total. We have had over 100 days […]