Archive for the ‘Federal Express’ Category
Uh-Oh, New Rival To Challenge FedEx, UPS & USPS
Serial entrepreneur Ron Wiener, whose Venture Mechanics venture arm incubated Swiss Post partner Earth Class Mail, has spent the last couple of years putting together a new parcel carrier meant to challenge FedEx, UPS and the USPS in delivering B2C packages from the scads of SMBs that don’t qualify for FedEx and UPS discounts and [...]
FedEx Office Gets Free Wi-Fi
FedEx Office, the old Kinko’s, has started offering free, unlimited Wi-Fi access at most of its US locations. Initially some 1,000 FedEx Office Print & Ship Centers locations are fitted out with the AT&T-supplied service; another 600 shops should done up by the end of the month. FedEx quoted a March survey done by AT&T [...]
FedEx Office Aids Wal-Mart’s Next Expansion
Having eaten its way through small town America, Wal-Mart has now reportedly set its lights on penetrating the big city, where it currently has little to no presence, and has recruited FedEx to advance its growth campaign, which starts by encouraging urban customers, particularly young college-going ones, to buy its stuff online and have their [...]
FedEx Raises Doubts of Sustained Recovery
FedEx handled a record 14.1 million packages last Monday, its busiest day of the year, a million more than it thought it would and 17% more than last year. The US bellwether, however, raised doubts about the strength and speed of the US recovery when it forecast lower-than-expected returns this quarter, which ends in February. [...]
FedEx To Field Newfangled Sensor
FedEx has combined a GPS sensor device and a web-based collaboration platform into some gee whiz, next-generation, first-of-its-kind widgetry developed in-house called SenseAware that can tell senders their package’s precise temperature and exact location and warn them if it’s been opened and the contents exposed to light. FedEx says the system will send real-time alerts [...]
FedEx Deploys an Appistry Cloud
FedEx has built a private cloud using Appistry, an early pioneer in cloud computing, and its CloudIQ application platform. Like most folks, FedEx integrated the cloud into its development and testing environment first to shorten test and deployment times and save money. According to FedEx senior technical architect Mike Rains, the company wanted to escape [...]
FedEx Torches UPS in Straw Man Argument
FedEx doesn’t want to be unionized. It especially doesn’t want the Teamsters unionizing its ground people. They can’t be right now because its delivery guys are covered under the Railway Labor Act (RLA), which was meant “to avoid any interruptions to commerce.” See, FedEx started with airplanes. It is not covered by the National Labor [...]
FedEx Calls a Bottom
As a bellwether of the global economy, FedEx sounded another discordant note last Thursday when it reported its fiscal third quarter results. Revenues fell 14% to $8.14 billion. And that’s the first time its sales have dropped in probably 10 years; international sales declined 13%; express revenues dropped 18% on volume down 5%; domestic shipments [...]