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News
Seattle Times
seattletimes.com - Apr 18th 2013
UPS driver Peggy Larson, of Port Orchard, Seattle, has just accomplished 30 years of accident-free driving. This is after covering over 800,000 miles in her career.
United Parcel Service, or UPS as it's known, traces its roots to two teenagers who began operating — with one bicycle — out of a basement office in Seattle’s Pioneer Square in 1907. The company, now based outside Atlanta, has become the world’s largest package-delivery company, moving 4.1 billion packages and documents worldwide last year.
Peggy said “I’m not an office person. I like it out here,” said Larson as she guides her boxy brown 18-foot truck up a hill in Manchester, east of Port Orchard.
“I love the chance to be outside, and to get to know my customers,” she said. “It’s almost like I have my own small business, delivering packages.”
On the road, she drives well behind the vehicle in front of her. And in close quarters, she’ll try to make eye contact with other drivers so she knows they see her.
She’s especially cautious in neighborhoods with small children, because a truck carrying a load of packages can be “a kid magnet.”
“They want to see what’s inside,” she said. “They know we work for Santa Claus.”
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Post&Parcel
www.postandparcel.info - Jan 23rd 2013
Due to the increased popularity of online shopping, DPD’s Dutch business
is expanding its delivery service to offer parcel delivery on Saturdays
The company says it is expanding from five to six days a week due to the demand
from internet businesses. The Saturday delivery is available for parcels going
to both households and business addresses.
DPD says it is shifting strategy to make the parcel recipient the main focus of
its logistics system
The company, part of La Poste’s GeoPost Group, said recent studies from
the likes of Delivery Match and Thuiswinkel.org have shown that 70% of online
shoppers feel it is important that retailers offer the delivery of parcels on
Saturdays or during evenings. Almost a third of Internet shoppers say such an
option is “very important” for online stores
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Daily Mail
www.dailymail.co.uk - Jan 15th 2013
Many families have still not received Christmas gifts that were sent as far
back as three weeks ago. Royal Mail have promised to clear the backlog by
bringing in extra temporary staff but have been severley hampered by the big
freeze.
Complaints have come from many areas including Berkshire, Norfolk,
Warwickshire, Cheshire and Scotland. They are apparently holding tens of
millions of parcels at their sorting offices while they try to clear them.
Royal Mail confirmed problems in Scotland, but denied a more widespread
Christmas backlog. It said: ‘The nation’s Christmas mailbag has been
delivered, the overwhelming majority of it by Christmas Eve. ‘There was a
huge effort by our postmen and women despite the worst December weather in
living memory.
We recruited 23,000 additional temporary staff. ‘We have had some reports
of individual items of Christmas mail arriving after Christmas but we are
confident these are isolated examples. ‘In that small number of places
where there has been some disruption, we have already taken measures to
deal with the issue.’
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The Independent
www.independent.co.uk - Nov 13th 2012
Huge profits have been reported at Royal Mail with an increase in six months up
from £12m to £144m for the same period as last year.
Their UK parcel revenue has gone up by 13%, with the parcel sector representing
47% of total group revenue.
All of the group's main businesses were profitable said Royal Mail chief
executive Moya Greene.
"Royal Mail has experienced the negative impact of e-substitution, which
is driving the structural decline in the traditional letters market.
"Conversely, we are seeing the positive impact that online retailing is
having on our parcel volumes," she said..
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Parcel & Post
postandparcel.info - Oct 31st 2012
UPS, the world’s largest parcel delivery company are forecating record
shipping volumes this festive season. This could be an increase of 10% on last
years figures.
UPS said this week it is expecting, between Thanksgiving and Christmas, to
deliver as many as 527m packages around the world.
To handle the surge in volumes this year, UPS is hiring 55,000 temporary
employees in the US. These are mainly seasonal workers helping drivers, sorting
packages and loading or unloading vehilcles.
UPS main rivals FedEx are forecasting 19m items on 10th December, with a total
of about 280m items during the festive period.
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BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk - Oct 1st 2012
International parcel delivery company DPD is to invest half a million pounds in
a new depot in Dundee which should create as many as 50 new jobs.
With up to 50 new routes the new depot will add to the depots it already has in
Glasgow Edinburgh and Aberdeen.
Dwain McDonald, the company's CEO, said there has been a rapid increase in
customers buying things over the internet. He added: "The new depot will
improve our capacity in Scotland and is further evidence of DPD's ongoing
investment in our infrastructure. The new depot is expected to be up and
running by the end of October.
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Washington Post
www.washingtonpost.com - Sep 18th 2012
Volunteer manager at Food & Friends, Don Pitz, says his job is easy —
on only one day of the year. Around the region, he has to increase manpower for
the meal distribution charity to get 3,800 meals to the chronically ill.
With only four chefs on staff, he said volunteers are essential. Last week, the
charity got a boost from nearly 50 FedEx employees, who took time off from
business logistics to help package and drop off meals to those in need.
And when the world’s largest express air delivery company employees met up
with some of the recipients of these deliveries. they were stunned. “It
was very eye-opening,” said manager FedEx Keithon L. Roberts.
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BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk - Sep 16th 2012
As many as half the households in Launceston in Cornwall are not getting daily
postal deliveries, local councillors claim.
Liberal Democrats Alex Folkes and Sasha Gillard-Loft claimed the problem was
because of short-staffing at the town's delivery office.
Mr Folkes said he knew local Royal Mail staff were "a very friendly and
hard-working bunch". He added: "But it's a big problem if there are
too few of them. It also seems that they are so short staffed that even doing a
bit of overtime can't solve the problem."
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Royal Mail Group
www.royalmailgroup.com - June 13th 2012
Royal Mail has announced the successful trial of a new delivery initiative
making it easier for people who are not at home during the day to receive items
that are either too large to go through the letterbox or require a
signature.
In trial areas it allowed Royal Mail to deliver items to a neighbouring address
if no one was at home. At this time, as part of its standard practice, Royal
Mail is the only major delivery company not allowed to deliver to a
neighbour.
Feedback from households in the trial areas revealed that of customers whose
item was left with a neighbour, 92% were satisfied with the overall experience.
Also of the neighbours who accepted an item, 90% expressed an overall
satisfaction.
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Scotsman.com
www.news.scotsman.com - June 9th 2012
Thanks to campaigner Andy Strangeway, lay-by signs telling drivers “no
overnight parking” have been deemed illegal. Strangeway claimed the signs
were obviously a danger to tired and weary motorists looking for a place to
rest.
He had also argued that the signs were not a welcoming sight for tourists to
the Highlands and after a ten-month campaign, Transport Scotland has agreed to
remove them.
The 50 signs will be removed by 31 August during a rolling programme of work on
the roads in the Highlands.
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