The Logistics Academy

JULY 6, 2016

Thanks to China’s e-commerce boom, the country’s package-delivery business has been growing at 30 percent a year. On the most recent Single’s Day—an online buying fest that takes place every November 11—consumers ordered 680 million packages, across all Chinese websites, that needed delivery.

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Bringg

JULY 4, 2018

As the volume for deliveries grows, this new franchise model is yet another strategy for Amazon to expand their delivery logistics network. With setup costs starting at $10,000, Amazon said that the owner of the package delivery franchise can expect to earn up to $300,000 in annual profit.

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Morai Logistics

DECEMBER 7, 2017

A look at where the technology meant to revolutionize small package delivery is in 2017. In 2013, the undisputed king of North American logistics, Jeff Bezos, revealed to CBS’ 60 minutes the future of small package logistics. Surely, others would take a cue from Amazon’s example.

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GoShip Blog

JULY 15, 2022

Although order fulfillment strategies may differ across businesses, a typical fulfillment strategy involves the following processes: Receiving inventory Inventory storage Order processing Picking and packaging Delivery Processing returns. These technologies streamline your fulfillment processes, saving you time, money, and manpower.

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TransAudit

JUNE 6, 2022

You will need to understand which deliveries are eligible for the UPS Money Back Guarantee. Because of this, it’s important to know the cut-off time for each type of delivery. For example, ground deliveries may have an end-of-day cut-off time. What was the package delivery time?

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Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

If you can track an Uber driver or an Amazon package delivery on your smartphone, why can’t supply chain visibility be just as easy? JP offered many other insights and examples of how companies can drive value from supply chain and transportation visibility. Visibility Isn’t a Smartphone App.

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Locus

OCTOBER 12, 2023

What’s interesting is that this playbook for excellence isn’t confined to the 22-yard pitch but finds its echo in the fast-paced world of last-mile delivery. So, whether it’s the thrill of a cricket match or the hustle of package deliveries, the lesson’s clear: Stay connected, stay ahead.

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Ship Monk

MAY 18, 2023

We opened this blog with some intense, humbling statistics that highlight the pain points of package delivery problems; now let’s flip the script and show you how our 3PL heals that with some super uplifting stats. Example Customer Complaint: “Hello, I received my package today, but one of the items I ordered is missing.

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WorkWave

JANUARY 28, 2022

Sometimes, this means using software that identifies the quickest-possible routes for package delivery. For example, you might send all customer calls about credit card issues directly to a sales representative, so that payments go through. At others, it might simply mean automating payroll and budgeting processes.

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Penske Move Ahead

MAY 9, 2019

Since 2010, Support Military Spouses (SMS), a South Carolina-based non-profit, has hosted appreciation care package delivery parties in North and South Carolina to provide gifts and appreciation cards to military wives and husbands. They are amazing people.

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WorkWave

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Are you trying to come up with a name for your newly established delivery service business? For example, the name needs to show exactly what your delivery service offers. However, even after putting much thought into it, you may come up with several package delivery company names.

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WorkWave

APRIL 6, 2022

A package delivery vehicle may stop at over a hundred locations a day, while a long-haul trucker may stop several times a day for food, gas, sleep, and other necessities. However, there are too many areas where Google Maps falls short for us to suggest using it for anything except the shortest and most direct deliveries.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 18, 2016

Small package shipments are routinely reserved for orders that weigh less than 150 pounds. For example, the individual items on a UPS truck for neighborhood delivery would be considered small package, but even UPS offers LTL services. The process can continue Ward small package shipping for final delivery.

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GlobalTranz

JULY 21, 2016

Consumers are expressing an unprecedented amount of power through eCommerce, and in fact, eCommerce logistics is growing increasingly reliant on small parcel and package delivery options daily. For example, the location of distribution centers impacts the distance between warehouse and consumer.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 30, 2017

According to Reuters : Package delivery company FedEx Corp said on Wednesday operations in its TNT Express unit were disrupted after its information systems were hit by a virus attack. South Florida Container Terminal, for example, said dry cargo could not be delivered and no container would be received.

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Freightos

JULY 23, 2015

Logistics is the prime example of a changing industry – colossal, ripe for disruption and utterly opaque. Package Delivery. And it’s about to get hit by a freight train of innovation. How much do we love freight innovation? Kontainers. Online freight forwarder (U.K.-China) China) primarily for SME shippers. KontainersUK.

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WorkWave

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

For example, do you plan or purchase the equipment outright? Legal Steps Involved in Starting a Home Delivery Business. The best structure for starting a home delivery business would be the LLC. A good example would be being ready to solely account for the risks and liabilities associated with your business.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 9, 2019

Eliminating interim stops (like overnight hubs) makes these local deliveries extremely fast and extremely inexpensive, and grants Amazon entry into the courier/ gig delivery market. Today, for example, Amazon pre-loads un-purchased products onto a truck knowing they will be ordered by the time the truck reaches an area.

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Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

In response to Hurricane Harvey, for example, JDRF and other organizations shipped more than 3,750 pounds of donated diabetes supplies to Houston (including 200,000 syringes, 50,000 pen needles and 20,000 alcohol pads) to help people with diabetes affected by the hurricane.

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247 Customs Broker

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

On the LSO side, the LSO spokeswoman said that Preferred can offer their customers a better choice in regional package delivery with LSO. . “We As a good example, both FedEx & UPS have imposed holiday peak season pricing surcharges. LSO has not and will not.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Under the service, called Return a Package, an Uber driver will pick up sealed and prepaid packages at a customer location and drop them off at a local post office or FedEx Corp. said Wednesday it has begun offering a service to handle returns. or UPS Inc. The company said service will not be impacted by the hub’s closure.

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Automotive Logistics

MAY 3, 2019

They operate with less infrastructure than other technologies, for example–stocktaking without forklifts and personnel.”. BMW, for example, has started to use dronesat its factory in Leipzig to count external storage bins for parts – work that was previously done by personnel. Philipp Wrycza, research fellow, Fraunhofer IML.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 29, 2018

Startups to Deliver Packages for Amazon. What do you do when demand for package delivery outstrips capacity? In Amazon’s case, the company has been investing for years in it’s own delivery assets and capabilities to augment those of UPS, USPS, FedEx, and other partners (see Amazon: Disruptor or Distraction?

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 13, 2023

My kids, for example, are always interested in getting their hands on the newest Guinness Book of World Records, and seeing what kind of crazy things are in there. Weekend package delivery services have seen their ups and downs, as Sunday deliveries at one point became a hot commodity.

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Material Handling and Logistics

JUNE 25, 2018

In fact, Walmart is so committed to its supply chain proficiency that it will offer to help pay tuition for any of its workers to earn degrees in either supply chain management or business—a very high-profile example of a company acknowledging its reliance on its supply chain as both a competitive advantage and its path to the future.

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Material Handling and Logistics

AUGUST 14, 2018

But many people are not aware that last-mile deliveries are also handled by thousands of small local and regional package delivery firms. Package delivery companies are prime targets as well. Shippers saw major rate increases and adjustments in surcharges from the U.S. Postal Service, UPS and FedEx.

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 1, 2019

req’d) Package delivery startup Roadie receives $37 million in funding (Fox Business). This allowed the user to confidently communicate with customers and coordinate delivery operations and staffing plans to improve efficiency.” ” Just four examples of why transportation is a cool industry to be in these days.

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247 Customs Broker

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Congress also killed the opportunity to save significant dollars by eliminating Saturday Mail Delivery (keeping Package delivery), Surveys showed Americans were in favor of this change.”. economy and in rural areas, communities, and small towns; and the state of the USPS business model, workforce, operations, costs, and pricing.

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