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| USPS: Through Rain, Heat ... But Not a Blizzard
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| 2/07/2010 07:07 PM |
| USPS: Through Rain, Heat ... But Not a Blizzard
No collections, deliveries today
By JIM IOVINO
Updated 9:46 AM EST, Sat, Feb 6, 2010
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Getty Images "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds."
But a blizzard is a different story.
The U.S. Postal Service has closed Saturday throughout the D.C. region due to the sno... |
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| U.S. Postal Service Expands Greeting Card Retail Network
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| 2/07/2010 07:02 PM |
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By Ina Steiner
AuctionBytes.com
February 05, 2010
Reading AuctionBytes: U.S. Postal Service Expands Greeting Card Retail Network
The U.S. Postal Service is expanding its test of greeting card sales from 500 offices to about 900. Busy consumers can buy, stamp and mail a greeting card while conducting other Postal Service business under this year-long pilot program launched last fall. By the end of March about 1,500 locations will offer cards.
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| UPS Faces Class Action on Fuel Charges
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| 2/07/2010 06:57 PM |
| By TIM HULL
DENVER (CN) - A federal RICO class action claims that United Parcel Service for years has charged customers a premium to ship packages by air while actually shipping them by truck to save money on fuel and add to its bottom line. The class claims the "Air-In-Ground program" has earned UPS "hundreds of millions of dollars" in ill-gotten gains since 1995.
Lead plaintiff Arapahoe Hyundai of Denver says that the purpose of the Ai... |
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| Lawsuits Accuse UPS of Overcharging for Deliveries Labeled 'Next Day Air'
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| 2/07/2010 06:55 PM |
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LOS ANGELES, Feb. 4 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A series of federal lawsuits filed this week in Colorado and California allege that United Parcel Service has been improperly charging high air-transportation rates for next-day and two-day deliveries that were actually sent by far-cheaper ground transportation.
According to the suits, UPS has been deliberately transporting some customers' "Next Day Air" and "2nd Day Air" packages by ground rather than ... |
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| UPS more than doubles its profit on lack of charges
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| 2/07/2010 06:53 PM |
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United Parcel Service Inc. said Tuesday its fourth-quarter profit more than doubled in the absence of charges, with improved international demand also helping the shipping firm.
Shares of UPS /quotes/comstock/13*!ups/quotes/nls/ups (UPS 57.20, -0.09, -0.16%) rose less than 1% to finish at $58.62. In the last 12 months the stock has risen more than 38%.
For the most recent quarter, the Atlanta-based company said it earned $757 million, or... |
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