One if by land, two if by sea — headaches, that is. With the recent news that, after 22 years of partnership, UPS is replacing FedEx as the primary air cargo provider for the United States Postal Service (USPS), air transport is now top of...
Online commerce customer experience platform AfterShip has enabled Apple Wallet Order Tracking to allow users to receive delivery updates in real time through Apple Wallet. The new feature is now available to AfterShip’s merchant customers, AfterShip said in a Tuesday (Feb. 20) news release. AfterShip tracks...
Most people consider returns annoying. And by most people, we mean the 79% of shoppers under 30 the National Retail Federation surveyed who consider mail returns to be somewhat or very bothersome. Responding to this finding is Uber, which last week launched its “Return a...
The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) has launched a new shipping offering designed to let customers send packages within a delivery window of two to five days across the continental United States. The new USPS Ground Advantage is a part of the Postal Service’s 10-year “Delivering America”...
January 16, 2020
Access to affordable housing is hard to find in the U.S. According to research from Harvard University, in 2016, nearly half of renters were cost-burdened — or spending more than 30 percent of their annual incomes on rent and utilities. In 1960, that figure was at 20 percent. According to National Low Income Housing Coalition […]
December 13, 2018
Call it the Amazon Effect — of a different sort. News has come that the Trump administration wants to boost the United States Postal Service’s (USPS’) revenue, and has taken aim,...
April 17, 2017
One day, Wells may not dominate the financial headlines the way it has. But not yet. And elsewhere, suspicions are a-brewing about how fleet cards are managed, at least within...
April 23, 2024
UPS is looking to returns and big-and-bulky deliveries to expand its addressable market at a time when its shipping volumes have been decreasing. The company saw a slower rate of decline in shipping volumes during the first quarter while still facing a challenging macroeconomic environment, UPS executives said Tuesday (April 23) during the company’s quarterly […]
February 20, 2024
Online commerce customer experience platform AfterShip has enabled Apple Wallet Order Tracking to allow users to receive delivery updates in real time through Apple Wallet. The new feature is now...
July 10, 2023
The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) has launched a new shipping offering designed to let customers send packages within a delivery window of two to five days across the continental United States....
December 20, 2021
Apple Pay is now accepted by the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) online, but for in-person transactions at retail locations, another payment method is needed, according to reports on Monday (Dec....
