AIRBORNE EXPRESS OFFERS USPS COMPETITION FOR “JUNK MAIL”

AIRBORNE EXPRESS OFFERS USPS COMPETITION FOR “JUNK MAIL”

AIRBORNE EXPRESS OFFERS USPS COMPETITION FOR “JUNK MAIL”

   Airborne Express has introduced service for generic bulk shipments of “flat mail,” which it says is 15 to 20 percent lower than U.S. Postal Service first class mail.
   Airborne said it can send flat mail, non-personalized printed or video materials weighing up to a pound and meeting specified dimension requirements, in one to two days. USPS bulk-rate delivery rate has a delivery time of 10 to 14 days, with USPS first class in two to three days.
   Airborne’s service, called QuikMail, is provided through a partnership with QuickPak Inc., which provides sorting services.
   Customers of QuikMail stuff, seal and address individual flat mail pieces and place them in a carton for Airborne pickup. Airborne verifies addresses, barcodes the pieces and delivers them to the QuikMail Processing Center in Indianapolis. There the pieces are sorted by zip code and delivered directly into the USPS stream for residential delivery.