Archive for the ‘All Items’ Category
Friday, February 8th, 2008
Police have charged former United Parcel Service employee Brian Miller with stealing customer's packages and selling the contents online. He apparently admitted to switching the labels on the packages so they'd be delivered to him, including several big-screen TVs. Then he sold the stolen contents on Craigslist.
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Sunday, February 3rd, 2008
Latin American exporters of perishable products are feeling the squeeze as higher jet fuel costs drive up the price of the expedited service prized for their goods. So much so that exporters of fresh flowers, fish, fruits and vegetables could be priced out of the market for air cargo, airline ...
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Friday, February 1st, 2008
UPS's profits took a nose dive in the 4th quarter of 2007 - to the tune of $6.1 billion dollars - with the company blaming employee benefit package-related expenses and more competition from FedEx, DHL and the USPS.
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
United Parcel Service is closing the Raleigh office it has leased for the past 20 years and is cutting 60 local jobs as the package-delivery company consolidates its operating districts.The Raleigh district office, which had employed 160 people in administrative and management positions, will close by March 31. The change ...
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Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
Brown is OK when its being used in the logo, but not when its the color of employee's skin, says one newspaper report coming out of Commerce City, Colorado by BlackNews.com. The news organization which covers items of interest to the black community leveled several charges of discrimination against UPS ...
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Sunday, January 27th, 2008
Following widely published rumors that DHL may be preparing to sell all or part of it's US operations to rival FedEx, talk is already getting underway about what a DHL sale would mean in terms of job losses and economic impacts. The Sacramento Bee kicked off the food for thought ...
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Saturday, January 26th, 2008
Reports continue to surface that seem to indicate that FedEx may indeed be trying to buy all or part of rival DHL. For FedEx, this would be another aid in helping it compete with United Parcel Service.
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Friday, January 25th, 2008
A DHL spokesman says parent company Deutsche Post World Net has no plans to sell its U.S. Express delivery service to its Memphis-based rival FedEx Corp. "There is no question about our exiting the U.S. business, a withdrawal can be completely ruled out," DHL spokesman Jonathan Baker said in a ...
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Thursday, January 24th, 2008
When Dale Martinez opened the first of his four Mail Boxes Etc. (MBE) stores in suburban Reedley in 1995, he looked forward to building a family-based business that would make his life a reflection of the "American Dream." Today, that dream has turned into a nightmare of conflict with United ...
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Monday, January 21st, 2008
UPS employees will be joining the Teamsters labor union. As a result, it is expected that packages may be safer as employees are paid more to handle them.
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