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 […]
US 09/18/19 Atlanta, GA First major redesign in decades to uniforms worn by 125,000 drivers worldwide Company’s greatest brand ambassadors get new look and feel Polo-style shirt, performance fabrics and reflective logos will improve driver comfort, safety and performance Old uniform pieces will be recycled UPS “Browns,” one of the world’s most iconic and recognizable corporate […]
UPS failed in its effort to create a “level playing field” in the delivery game after the U.S. Supreme Court turned away its appeal aimed at forcing the U.S. Postal Service to raise its prices. The Supreme Court on Monday unanimously upheld an appeals court ruling related to how much the Postal Service can charge […]
FEBRUARY 14, 2019 – Husch Blackwell announced today the publication of its Top 150 U.S. Postal Service Suppliers list, an annual look at the companies with the largest supplier relationships with the U.S. Postal Service (USPS). All told, USPS spent nearly $16 billion on outside purchases, about $900 million more than the year before. Not […]
President Trump has been mum about the task-force report on the U.S. Postal Service he ordered in April and received last month, which J.P. Morgan analyst Brian Ossenbeck interprets as a sign that Trump wasn’t very happy with the outcome: Trump had issued an executive order on the night of April 12, calling for an […]
UPS And International Brotherhood Of Teamsters Reach Handshake Agreement For New National Master Agreement US 06/22/18 Atlanta, GA Months of collective bargaining have culminated in a tentative agreement for UPS (NYSE: UPS) and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. The five-year agreement, which is subject to ratification, covers Teamsters-represented UPS employees in small package roles. UPS’s goal […]
The timeworn apartment building in Chicago’s Rogers Park neighborhood hardly looks like the corporate headquarters of one of the world’s largest shipping companies. But for a few recent months, that’s essentially what it became — at least as far as the U.S. Postal Service was concerned. Federal court papers unsealed last week revealed an […]
With “Parcel Metro” service, DHL looks to be big fish in fast-growing delivery pond What DHL brings to the table is its technology and, perhaps more important, its global brand. The U.S. last-mile parcel market is both embryonic and hodge-podge-like, with startups like New York-based Deliv vying for share along with other eager pros and […]
Officials with major shipping companies says they have security measures in place to screen for dangerous materials, but they do not discuss them in order to maintain their effectiveness. Kendall Daniel, U.S. Postal Inspector with the Houston Division, told KHOU in a statement, in part: “The U.S. Postal Service has developed a comprehensive approach to […]
E-commerce Expansion Fuels Robust Returns With National Returns Day Expected to Hit New Record In December, more than 1 million returns occurred each day before Christmas 1.4 million returns expected on National Returns Day, Jan. 3, a fifth consecutive annual record, up 8% from prior year Record breaking Black Friday and Cyber Week e-commerce sales […]