Switch to UPS saved US Postal Service 43% in air transport costs
The U.S. Postal Service is saving a great deal of money with UPS as its prime air cargo vendor instead of FedEx, according to a new inspector general’s report.
The U.S. Postal Service is saving a great deal of money with UPS as its prime air cargo vendor instead of FedEx, according to a new inspector general’s report.
DHL Express Canada will resume parcel deliveries on Monday after settling a labor dispute that resulted in a three-week strike.
The Memphis-Shelby County Airport Authority passed a resolution on Thursday to begin renaming the Memphis International Airport after FedEx founder Fred Smith.
FedEx is accelerating the overhaul of its express and package delivery networks to eliminate excess capacity and improve customer service.
The powerful Teamsters union is accusing UPS of failing to fully honor terms of its 2023 contract related to air conditioned vehicles, hiring full-time workers and forced overtime.
DHL Express Canada could resume operations within days if union workers ratify a preliminary contract negotiated by Unifor.
FedEx said its newly streamlined air cargo network helped it adjust to tariff-induced demand fluctuations and make a profit during its latest quarter.
FedEx has permanently parked 12 cargo jets as it aligns the fleet with shipping volumes to control costs.
Amazon is ramping up Same-Day and Next-Day delivery for small towns, rural areas.
FedEx founder Fred Smith is being remembered as a legend in the freight transportation industry after his death on Saturday. Former FedEx employees have many stories about how Smith built the FedEx airline from scratch.
FedEx has named a new chairman after founder Fred Smith died over the weekend.
FedEx founder Fred Smith died Saturday with a legacy as a great U.S. entrepreneur.
DHL Express Canada was forced to suspend operations Friday. The company wants the government to override a new law prohibiting the use of replacement workers.
Canada Post has agreed to a new contract with its rural postmasters, but remains at loggerheads with its largest union.
The airport in Lyons, France, is significantly expanding its cargo infrastructure with the opening of a replacement terminal for DHL Express and construction underway on a general warehouse and pharma center to be occupied by Worldwide Flight Services.
At the Paris Air Show on Wednesday, Airbus secured its second A350 freighter deal and Embraer announced the first operator for its regional E190 converted freighter.
A new robot that flips packages so labels can be scanned is helping FedEx more accurately sort packages at its Cologne, Germany, air station for final delivery.
Amazon’s air logistics unit has started flying internationally for the first time from the U.S. to help fulfill e-commerce orders in Colombia and is leaning on a U.S. cargo airline to fly the aircraft and a Colombian airline for revenue on the return leg to Miami.
DHL Express Canada will stop accepting shipments on Tuesday and suspend all operations on Friday in response to a work stoppage by 2,100 employees.
The Department of Justice has charged four individuals for allegedly stealing U.S. Treasury checks from postal facilities.
The Canadian government has agreed to Canada Post’s request to force a union vote on is latest contract offer to break a negotiating stalemate.
Contract negotiations between Canada Post and mail carriers remain deadlocked as efforts to start arbitration falter.
DHL Express Canada says it has taken steps to minimize any disruption from a lockout and strike over a contract dispute with union workers.
Canada Post and its unionized letter carriers are negotiating again on a collective bargaining agreement, but their inability to resolve differences is compounding problems at the national mail carrier.
Canada Post and the Canadian Union of Postal Workers are not giving an inch in their fight over a labor contract, with Canada Post showing frustration with union leadership and opposing its call for binding arbitration.
Canada Post, in a sign it has lost patience with leadership of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers, has asked the Canadian government to put its latest contract offer to employees for a vote.
DHL Express workers say they are willing to walk off the job in less than two weeks if a new labor contract isn’t in place by then.
The postal workers union is disparaging what Canada Post called an enhanced offer on Wednesday as the sides struggle to finalize a labor agreement after nearly 18 months of negotiations.
Canada Post’s financial troubles have been compounded by the ongoing labor dispute and the inability to generate more revenue from parcel delivery.
Veho, a tech-enabled parcel courier, is testing a delivery robot that can walk, climb and roll to customer doorsteps in cityscapes.
Purolator’s airfreight partner in western Canada is modifying turboprop aircraft for parcel transport as part of a fleet modernization.
Canada Post workers backed away from going on strike, opting instead for a ban on overtime work. But the threat of a strike has already allowed competitors to take parcel business from the national post.
The CEO of Mercado Libre, the dominant e-commerce player in Latin America, has decided to turn control to one of his lieutenants and move to the board room.
The U.S. government says it moved to block a businessman and his two logistics companies from using fake postal labels to ship parcels from China to the United States.
Postal workers in Canada have threatened to go on strike Friday, which would shut down most delivery services and hurt businesses that depend on Canada Post to fulfill orders.
FedEx Corp. has announced the new leaders for less-than-truckload carrier FedEx Freight following a 2026 spinoff.
E-commerce logistics startup Stord has acquired Ware2Go from UPS.
The White House has temporarily relaxed duties on parcel imports from China that entered the country without duty prior to May 2, but efforts continue to eliminate the de minimis exemption altogether.
DHL continues to ramp up investment in the e-commerce space with a large stake in U.K.-based parcel delivery company Evri.
Amazon will outsource delivery of large packages to FedEx in a deal that should prove more profitable on a per-shipment level than shipments under the companies’ partnership that ended six years ago.
The U.S. Postal Service continues to face challenges erasing its losses.
President Trump’s instinct to place the U.S. Postal Service under the direct control of the White House is correct and would allow the agency to be reformed without interference from oversight bodies that have outlived their usefulness, says commentator Satish Jindel.
The U.S. Postal Service’s board of governors on Friday named David Steiner as the next postmaster general, but the choice isn’t official yet. News reports say he was first approved by President Trump.
DHL’s supply chain unit says it plans to close a distribution center in Ontario, California.
The U.S. Postal Service board of governors is set to vote soon on a FedEx official to lead the agency, according to a newspaper report.
DHL has targeted e-commerce logistics as a primary growth area. On Tuesday, it acquired Indiana-based specialist IDS Fulfillment.
FedEx continues to implement its Tricolor efficiency strategy with the conversion of a 777 freighter aircraft from its parcel to its heavy air cargo network.
Amazon is investing heavily in rural last-mile delivery as a hedge against Walmart, a prominent analyst says.
Amazon contract carrier Sun Country Airlines says finding parts is slightly slowing deployment of new Amazon freighter aircraft.
DHL Group is trimming some airline partners to reduce excess capacity in its air network as part of an effort to maintain growth in a turbulent market.
A U.S. Postal Service distribution center in Tampa is closed after a wall collapsed Monday night.
UPS is downsizing its workforce as it pulls back from delivering packages for Amazon, its largest customer.
DHL said it is resuming deliveries of B2C shipments over $800 after U.S. authorities relaxed rules that had increased red tape for processing medium-value shipments.
Eric Kulisch has been named managing editor of PostalMag, a Firecrown publication that covers logistics along with FreightWaves.
Postmaster General Louis DeJoy said the Postal Service is considering how it can raise money by offering logistics service across the government.
The Washtucna, Washington Post Office closed in 2010 because of a mold discovery, and now residents get their mail delivered in cluster boxes. Photo by Jimmy Emerson.
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PTF rural carrier Sebastian Mykitin’s LLV is packed full of holiday packages ready for delivery. Mykitin works at the Sierra Garden Post Office in Roseville, California.
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