Archive for the ‘UPS’ Category
USPS Told To Get an ‘eMailbox’
The aptly named Risk Analysis Research Center (RARC), which is part of the United States Postal Service’s Office of the Inspector General, thinks it might be a good idea – however late in the day – for the practically bankrupt post office to finally bow to the digital age and build itself an “eMailbox” platform [...]
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 [...]
UPS Sells Software Unit
UPS is selling its Logistics Technologies unit to Thoma Bravo LLC, the private equity house. Financial details were not disclosed. UPS Logistics Technologies, headquartered in Baltimore and employing about 145 people, creates high-tech transportation routing and fleet management systems. More than 200,000 vehicles are reportedly managed through 3,300 installations worldwide in a variety of industries. [...]
UPS Delivers App for Google’s Android
UPS has come out with a Mobile App for Android gismos that it says is an industry first. One can use it for shipping via the My UPS address book, calculate shipping rates and time-in-transit, find the nearest UPS location and track shipments. UPS has put out similar applications for the iPhone and BlackBerry. They’re [...]
UPS Ties Up with Chinese Online Marketplace
DHgate.com, a Chinese wholesale marketplace that enables global SMB online transactions, has become UPS’ first wholesale e-commerce customer in China. UPS’ suite of integrated shipping tools is now available to users of DHgate.com. Through their relationship, DHgate customers are supposed to benefit from direct control of shipping options to manage their businesses via the DHgate.com [...]
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 [...]