Archive for December, 2007
Sunday, December 30th, 2007
If you were planning to ship something, you should have done it yesterday. UPS is increasing rates by 4.9 percent in 2008 for ground shipments and by 6.9 percent for air express and international shipments. The company raised its rates by about this amount last year as well.
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Saturday, December 29th, 2007
A federal appeals court ordered a San Francisco judge on Friday to reconsider his ruling requiring United Parcel Service to give its deaf employees a chance to compete for jobs as drivers of small delivery trucks. The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 13-2 that U.S. District Judge Thelton ...
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Monday, December 24th, 2007
Fedex Corp said on Friday that the Internal Revenue Service found that its FedEx Ground independent contractors should be reclassified as employees for tax purposes and that the company faced related taxes and penalties of more than $319 million for 2002.
The IRS is auditing similar issues for 2004 through 2006, ...
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Thursday, December 20th, 2007
UPS driver Glen Delong called the police as two kids threw a Pit Bull into a canal and hit it with a stick, according to news reports. The driver phoned the tip in after seeing the incident while working his route. Jarrius Flournah, 18, and Reginald Robinson, 19, are charged ...
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Thursday, December 20th, 2007
The long term credit rating of United Parcel Service was cut from the highest level by Moody's Investors Service because of added debt to leave a Teamsters' pension fund and weakening demand for freight shipments. The company's senior unsecured rating falls two steps to Aa2 from Aaa, affecting $2.5 billion ...
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Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
Revenge for publishing The UPS / Cargo Largo Connection was swift over at Brown Cafe, an Internet forum where alot of UPS employees congregate. Most of them like their jobs and insist that they'd never hurt a package. Additionally, most of them also dislike me, because I don't like some ...
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Monday, December 17th, 2007
This is - without any doubt whatsoever - the biggest story I have done for this site. Its a tale of a missing package and where it went, where it should have gone and where it gone but should not have. Its a saga of who did what to said ...
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Monday, December 17th, 2007
FedEx driver Vito Randazzo works long hours this time of year, but the smile never seems to stop. Working out of one of two FedEx Corp. warehouses in Brooklyn, this day is much like any other, but Randazzo, 48, is noticeably aware of the ramp up to the busiest day ...
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Saturday, December 15th, 2007
UPS said it raised 2008 rates an average of 4.9 percent for ground shipments and 6.9 percent for air shipments.
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Saturday, December 15th, 2007
DHL and the USPS are ranked #1 and #2 respectively, followed by UPS and finally in dead last is FedEx in a recently released ranking on how well the shipping sector is responding to global warming concerns. The ranking is based on four benchmarks: measuring and tracking carbon emissions footprint, ...
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