While most shippers are giving carriers high marks for service performance and delivery, they are increasingly unhappy with their overall relationships with their service providers. According to a recent... View More

Delivering packages on a hand truck is nothing new. Drivers have depended on hand trucks for decades to make delivering bulky or heavy items easier. Seems simple, but like anything else in the workplace,... View More

Imagine being at a baseball game and the only thing you saw was the score of the game. There was no information on balls and strikes, errors made, how many outs there were or what inning the game was in.... View More

If your operation is to succeed, it is critical to embark on a fact-finding mission to discover if receiving is a profit drain or gain in your warehouse. Part I of our series will examine how to make this... View More

At the Parcel Shipping & Distribution Forum in Chicago this past fall, we were privileged to be introduced to several new U.S. Postal Service products developed expressly to assist parcel shippers. For... View More

For many years, image processing and address recognition technologies have been used to speed up mail sorting and reduce manual data entry costs. With todays increased competition in the postal business,... View More

Deliveries of products to residences were, at one time, limited to catalog orders. At the time, volumes were relatively low, and the recipient typically paid shipping and handling charges. Today, residential... View More

While most shippers are giving carriers high marks for service performance and delivery, they are increasingly unhappy with their overall relationships with their service providers. According to a recent... View More

ACMGs newly-released International Air Freight and Express Industry Performance Analysis 2006 provides a detailed assessment of the industry and the companies that compete in this global market. ... View More

As the supply chain execution industry evolves into a new era, companies are forced to partner more tightly with their customers and suppliers in order to keep costs at bay and manage margins. These same... View More

UPS recently implemented the highest rate increase sincewell, EVER! The increase consisted of an average boost of 4.9% in list Ground rates and a whopping surge in list Air and International rates... View More

According to PARCEL Magazines most recent survey, 40% of low-volume shippers rely on carrier-supplied shipping systems. Are these shippers missing an opportunity to grow their businesses and save money?... View More

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Most of the RFID business is booming. Andrew Price, RFID Manager at IATA, the airline trade association, enthuses, In the next few years, the air industry will be tagging an ever higher proportion of its... View More

In its fourth year, the 2006 Parcel Shipping & Distribution Forum was better than ever The dreary rain and dismal weather that plagued Chicago the week of September 10th may have delayed a... View More

Managing the supply chain for high-value, time-critical packages Companies often worry if they are shipping items that far exceed the carriers $100 standard value, and rightly so. For example,... View More

Often overlooked, this group of employees is your key to success It was Jack Welch, the legendary CEO of General Electric, who popularized the notion of A, B and C. Were not talking algebra... View More

These hidden operational costs consume more time and money than you thinkMost companies believe that they are running their operations efficiently enough and do not need to further reduce waste. Yet, nothing... View More

There are a number of reasons to expect that the yield impact of UPSs annual rate increase could be greater this year than has historically been the case. If correct, pricing could be a positive catalyst... View More

FedExs 3.5% effective list rate increase at its flagship Express division is a good sign that domestic parcel pricing remains firm and rational. This is consistent with the results of our shipper survey... View More