Leaders of Indianapolis-based Now Courier expect company growth to continue following the acquisition by Minneapolis-based Priority Courier Experts.
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The request was made to the Postal Regulatory Commission, which must approve the proposed increase that the Postal Service contends is necessary to achieve financial stability.
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The Teamsters represent more than half of the company’s workforce in the largest private-sector contract in North America. If a strike occurs, it would be the first since a 15-day walkout by 185,000 workers crippled the company a quarter-century ago.
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Brett Cody, senior director of communications for Pitney Bowes, said the company is shifting its parcel delivery and returns operation to two other Midwest hubs “to more efficiently meet client demands and evolving market opportunities.”
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Returnless refunds are a tool that more retailers are using to keep online shoppers happy and to reduce shipping fees, processing time and other ballooning costs from returned products.
Letter carriers have been working without a new contract since their old one expired in May 2023. Since then they have continued working under the terms of the old contract.
Amazon expects to put 1,000 delivery vans that contain the Vision-Assisted Package Retrieval technology on the road by early next year.
The U.S. Postal Service said Wednesday that it is ending discounts that shipping consolidators such as UPS and DHL use to get packages to the nation’s doorsteps.
Allowing marginally slower service to rural areas, which often drag down on-time rates, could improve the agency’s delivery metrics, experts say.
The two additions could help Arrive AI—a maker of smart mailboxes with security and temperature-control features—to gain more traction with municipalities and health care providers.
The company said Thursday that it’s already replaced 95% of the plastic air pillows with paper filler in North America and is working toward complete removal by year’s end.
Two law firms spearheading the action said about 15,860 Amazon Flex drivers have submitted arbitration claims with the American Arbitration Association, where 453 similar cases are already being litigated.
By the end of the decade, the company has a goal of delivering 500 million packages by drone every year.
CEO Carol Tome said Tuesday that by reducing the company’s headcount UPS will realize $1 billion in cost savings. The job eliminations are anticipated to be among management roles and contractors, the company said.
The Teamsters said in a statement that 86% of the votes cast were in favor of ratifying the contract.
Some 340,000 UPS employees are inching toward a strike, threatening the largest work stoppage in over half a century, that could upend a part of the broader package delivery system that Americans have come to depend on.
The Teamsters represent more than half of the company’s workforce in the largest private-sector contract in North America. If a strike occurs, it would be the first since a 15-day walkout by 185,000 workers crippled the company a quarter-century ago.
Thousands of Teamster UPS drivers across the United States are expected to authorize a strike Friday, bringing the country a step closer to what would be among the largest work stoppages in decades.
The last time UPS workers walked of the job more than two decades ago, it crippled the shipping company. An emboldened union is threatening to do the same, and this time the disruption would be far greater.
The company, which launched in 2019, hasn’t yet started earning revenue but it expects to do so by the end of the year, says founder Dan O’Toole. He said it’s also on track to meet hiring required to earn state incentives.
The company said the decision is part of a move to discontinue its management and operation of a facility on the city’s west side.
Alcohol delivery app Drizly has agreed to tighten its data security and limit data collection to resolve federal regulators’ allegations that its security failures exposed the personal information of some 2.5 million customers.
The company has three years to reach compliance across 1,160 locations and will pay a civil penalty of $5.3 million.
Amazon.com plans about the same number of seasonal workers as last year despite slowing sales and predictions of a lackluster holiday shopping season.
