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By Justin G. Cramer

Before Henry Ford created the mass market for automobiles, there were scores of buggy-whip factories. A few remain today and one of them is thriving. Hoover, that one-time buggy-whip company, now makes vacuum cleaners. Most other turn-of-the-century whip makers stubbornly stuck with dated technology and suffered the consequences, as did the coach manufacturers that bought from them.

There are many Value Added Resellers (VARs) today with a buggy-whip mentality. They are comfortable, or should we say complacent, with yesteryear’s software.

This is not to suggest that VARs are not a valuable resource. There are compelling reasons to use VARs. Good VARs not only know their software, but they know you. Working closely with a high-quality VAR can result in a smooth-running shipping operation.

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FedEx will launch next-day service in Mexico On Oct. 6th.

The service, called FedEx Express Nacional, will include delivery to any address in Mexico, online tracking and tracing, and a money-back guarantee.

It will initially create more than 180 jobs in Mexico in addition to the 1,000 it currently employs in the country. Operational hubs will be located in Toluca and San Luis Potosi.
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By Jeff Goeters

Hinda Incentives, a full-service reward-programs company, became an industry leader through a combination of high-quality inventory and supreme customer service. Proof of this winning combination is 20 to 40 percent annual growth.

The company distinguishes itself by providing award recipients with immediate gratification through fast and accurate shipping.

Benito Bustamante, Hinda’s director of warehouse operations, said, “If someone knows they are getting a reward, they want it yesterday. And we want to oblige.”

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But officials believed the pair could not be released into the ocean because the human-nurtured turtles would not survive there.

Enter Fed Ex.  The turtles are being expressed to their new home — a 19,000-gallon tank at The Maritime Museum in Norwalk, Connecticut.

UPS’ plan to fly packages for rival DHL will be the subject of a hearing by the U.S. House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure when Congress returns in September 2008.

UPS has its main air hub in Louisville, Kentucky and DHL’s air hub is in Wilmington, Ohio.

“I have serious concerns about the UPS-DHL alliance, including effects on service, costs, consumer choice, and jobs,” Committee Chairman James L. Oberstar said in a statement. “This alliance is likely to eliminate two cargo air carriers, ABX and ASTAR, which now serve DHL and compete with UPS. This would lessen, or even eliminate, competition between UPS and DHL in providing overnight package delivery services.” He said the alliance could cost as many as 8,000 jobs in the state.

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — United Parcel Service Inc. said Monday its heavy-freight division improved transit times on more than 1,200 traffic lanes with improvements such as two-day lanes from Chicago to Dallas and overnight shipments from Cincinnati to Memphis, Tenn.

The division of United Parcel Service said the improvements occurred in lines starting in the Midwest, Northeast and Mid-Atlantic. The company said it has reduced shipping times on more than 10,000 lanes over the last 18 months.

Other new two-day lanes include Boston to St. Louis and Philadelphia to Miami, UPS said. Overnight shipping now covers Columbus, Ohio, to Charlotte, N.C.

The U.S. Postal Service could lose about $2 billion this year according to Postmaster General John E. Potter.

Potter said the postal service is grappling with issues that many businesses are facing, such as how to handle high fuel prices. He pointed to the postal service’s large fleet of alternative-fuel vehicles as a positive step.

He said unless USPS does more to reduce bureaucracy, cut costs and embrace technology, the Postal Service could lose $2 billion or more next year.”

NEW YORK — The Associated Press — On a narrow street in lower Manhattan’s financial district, Godvell Merilus pulls his UPS truck alongside a curb and parks illegally.

Like the nearby Poland Spring and FedEx drivers, Merilus doesn’t have a choice. There are no legal spaces, and he has a demanding schedule to keep, delivering hundreds of packages to corporations such as Goldman Sachs and Citibank.

Then the inevitable comes wrapped in a blaze-orange envelope: Merilus gets a $115 parking ticket, one of four he receives this day. “It’s automatic,” said Merilus, 34. “There is not a single day I don’t get a summons.”

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