Visit a bathroom in a home in the Netherlands and you might find a good idea staring you in the face: a list of birthdays important to your host posted opposite the toilet. Why in that spot? To assure that it's viewed regularly.
UPS Inc., the world's largest shipping carrier, said Wednesday it is working toward an agreement with DHL's U.S. Express unit to carry air shipments for some DHL units within the United States
Federal employees charged millions of dollars to government credit or debit cards, according to a Government Accountability Office study released Wednesday.
Amid concerns about terrorism and mail threats in a post-September 11 world, two organizations and hundreds of volunteers have stepped in to make sure wounded U.S. troops receive some much-needed holiday cheer.
The deadline for getting your packages mailed out is fast approaching. Here's your survival guide to holiday shipping so you can get that last-minute present to your in-laws.
It's 9:45 A.M., and at 93 degrees and 1,000% humidity, Saddle Brook, N.J., feels more like the Serengeti than suburbia. I'm in a doorless truck, wearing high-waisted shorts, facing a day full of handcarts and heavy boxes. When I arose at 5:45 this morning - an hour I haven't seen the daytime side of since ... ever - the day had something of the adventurous about it. Like more of my Generation Y peers than one might expect, I'd never worn a uniform, or even properly nine-to-fived it for that matter, and here at last was my chance.
My branding and fashion PR consultancy, GTK Marketing Group, is constantly scrambling to get out mailings for premieres and launches. Our system is workable but a bit clunky: We keep mailing lists on Excel spreadsheets and print address labels on an ordinary inkjet printer using free mail-merge software that comes with our Avery labels from Staples. We then use the Postal Service's Click-N-Ship online-postage system (usps.com) to print a separate postage label for each invitation.
Buying items online has never been easier. But for many shoppers, receiving their purchases is the hard part
Deutsche Post (No. 57), with its iconic yellow DHL trucks, sped past the U.S. Postal Service (No. 64) to lead the mail, package, and freight delivery category. Meanwhile, HP (No. 41) edged out IBM (No. 42) in computers by a slim $234 million margin, and Verizon (No. 39), Gazprom (No. 52), and Caterpillar (No. 151) became new leaders in their industries.
The Postal Service has issued stamps you can buy today (41¢ for first class) and use forever, even if postage increases. But don't start hoarding stamps to beat inflation. The best ways to beat rate hikes remain sending e-mail and paying bills online.
Visit a bathroom in a home in the Netherlands and you might find a good idea staring you in the face: a list of birthdays important to your host posted opposite the toilet. Why in that spot? To assure that it's viewed regularly.
UPS Inc., the world's largest shipping carrier, said Wednesday it is working toward an agreement with DHL's U.S. Express unit to carry air shipments for some DHL units within the United States
Federal employees charged millions of dollars to government credit or debit cards, according to a Government Accountability Office study released Wednesday.
Amid concerns about terrorism and mail threats in a post-September 11 world, two organizations and hundreds of volunteers have stepped in to make sure wounded U.S. troops receive some much-needed holiday cheer.
The deadline for getting your packages mailed out is fast approaching. Here's your survival guide to holiday shipping so you can get that last-minute present to your in-laws.
It's 9:45 A.M., and at 93 degrees and 1,000% humidity, Saddle Brook, N.J., feels more like the Serengeti than suburbia. I'm in a doorless truck, wearing high-waisted shorts, facing a day full of handcarts and heavy boxes. When I arose at 5:45 this morning - an hour I haven't seen the daytime side of since ... ever - the day had something of the adventurous about it. Like more of my Generation Y peers than one might expect, I'd never worn a uniform, or even properly nine-to-fived it for that matter, and here at last was my chance.
My branding and fashion PR consultancy, GTK Marketing Group, is constantly scrambling to get out mailings for premieres and launches. Our system is workable but a bit clunky: We keep mailing lists on Excel spreadsheets and print address labels on an ordinary inkjet printer using free mail-merge software that comes with our Avery labels from Staples. We then use the Postal Service's Click-N-Ship online-postage system (usps.com) to print a separate postage label for each invitation.
Buying items online has never been easier. But for many shoppers, receiving their purchases is the hard part
Deutsche Post (No. 57), with its iconic yellow DHL trucks, sped past the U.S. Postal Service (No. 64) to lead the mail, package, and freight delivery category. Meanwhile, HP (No. 41) edged out IBM (No. 42) in computers by a slim $234 million margin, and Verizon (No. 39), Gazprom (No. 52), and Caterpillar (No. 151) became new leaders in their industries.
The Postal Service has issued stamps you can buy today (41¢ for first class) and use forever, even if postage increases. But don't start hoarding stamps to beat inflation. The best ways to beat rate hikes remain sending e-mail and paying bills online.
What a grand spectacle it will be! On July 7 the first rider will roll down the ramp for the prologue of the Tour de France. This year's Grand Boucle, or Big Loop, begins in London. Cycling fans are advised to focus on the pageantry of the brightly costumed athletes or on the Gothic grandeur of the Palace of Westminster, not far from the starting line.
Startup: RedRoller
Americans may want to start bracing for another postage increase.
SI.com's Pete McEntegart is at the BCS Title Game between No. 1 Ohio State and No. 2 Florida at University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Ariz. (Pete's blog is done during Mountain Standard Time.)
Santa isn't the only one working feverishly - package and mail carriers are due to have their busiest days of the year this week.
Santa isn't the only one busy around this season - mail carriers are putting in extra effort with two weeks left for holiday shopping.
The Internal Revenue Service confirmed Wednesday it is waiting for taxpayers to claim undeliverable refund checks as soon as they update their addresses.
TNT ranks no. 387 on FORTUNE's Global 500 this year, with $17.0 billion in revenues, up 8% from the previous year. The Hoofddorp, Netherlands-based company was ranked no. 383 on the 2005 list. Its 2005 profits were $0.8 billion, down 1.3% from a year earlier.
My branding and fashion PR consultancy, GTK Marketing Group, is constantly scrambling to get out mailings for premieres and launches. Our system is workable but a bit clunky: We keep mailing lists ...
What if the way we think about homeland security - phone taps, color-coded threat levels, and screeners - is myopic? What if the government could prevent attacks and bolster its disaster-response p...
In the world of consumer payment, cash is so last century. Today, more transactions are made in the U.S. with plastic cards and via electronic transfer than by cash or check. That's where eFunds, which helps financial institutions and retailers process these payments and manage the associated fraud risks, comes in. The Scottsdale, Ariz.-based company is well-positioned to profit from growth of these transactions, making it an attractive bet for investors.
Open up your wallet and look through your credit cards. Now take out a pair of scissors and cut up the ones with the name of an airline on it.
The rush of holiday shopping can be stressful enough. Add in sending gifts to loved ones far away and the stress may become too much to handle.
Most people know him as the Minister for Silly Walks on "Monty Python" or as Q in James Bond films. But John Cleese will also go down in history for another reason: lemurs.
Hurricane victims struggling to rebuild their lives may be faced with an additional challenge: regaining their identity.
Streams of evacuees are stuck again in a familiar evacuation limbo. While out of harm's way, the return to normalcy is nowhere in sight.
NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - The Federal Reserve should consider adopting the U.S. Postal Service's unofficial motto and tweaking it, just a bit.
The U.S. Postal Service has delivered 15,000 Social Security checks to people otherwise unable to receive mail in regions devastated by Hurricane Katrina.
Nearly four years after 9/11, Americans flying on passenger planes remain vulnerable to another terrorist attack in the air because of lax screening of the millions of tons of cargo loaded into the belly of aircraft, a three-month CNN investigation shows.
A commemorative U.S. postage stamp honoring the heroes of September 11, 2001, has raised $10.5 million for the families of rescuers killed or permanently disabled in the terrorist attacks.
The U.S. union movement split apart this week over how to best organize workers at non-union companies.
CAST YOUR MIND BACK TEN YEARS. A COMPANY called Netscape is busy engineering a tool for browsing the Internet. Jeff Bezos is polishing his business plan for a company called Amazon. And jeans maker...
NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - To every miffed reader who has written in complaining about the recommendations in CNN/Money's Holiday Tipping Guide, let me just say I couldn't agree with you more.
The U.S. Postal Service said Wednesday it will not raise its postage rates -- at least not until 2006.
Pat Cochran had been running a business for nearly three years, providing economical same-day courier service, when she received a letter several months ago from the U.S. Postal Service informing h...
Want to get personal with your correspondence? Put your own face, or your new baby's face -- even shots from your crazy summer vacation -- on postage stamps.
General Motors is promoting its fuel cell technology, announcing Wednesday a deal to lease a fuel cell minivan to the United States Postal Service.
As revolutions go, this one ignited with something less than a boom. But that doesn't mean the events of June 26, 1974, didn't usher in a transformation. On that day a checkout clerk slid a ten-p...
If you're one of the millions of Americans who wait until the last minute to file your taxes, you may encounter some obstacles at the post office today.
Consumers these days endure advertising on the floors of supermarkets, in the sanitary-cakes of urinals, even tattooed onto the heads of college kids.
It's late morning in San Francisco's South of Market district, and Ramon Umali quickly steers his green-and-violet Federal Express truck into a U-turn. One of his biggest customers--online adult-to...
Norman Lorentz might just have one of the worst jobs imaginable. Named the first chief technology officer of the Office of Management and Budget last fall, he oversees the federal government's $45 ...
1920: The Ponzi scheme Charles Ponzi planned to arbitrage postal coupons--buying them from Spain and selling them to the U.S. Postal Service at a profit. To raise capital, he outlandishly promised ...
Most Admired companies? Please. Scanning the headlines these days makes you wonder if there are any companies worthy of our esteem. Enron, Arthur Andersen, Kmart, Global Crossing, Warnaco, Tyco--ne...
In my boyhood dreams, I'd glide like a feather on a breeze, down hallways and through rooms, my toes floating a foot or so above the floor. When I took a ride on inventor Dean Kamen's already famou...
CORANTE.COM Attention! There is some venture capital fueling tech these days, and e-commerce is alive and well, but you might not know it if you haven't been poring over the dailies. Check out the ...
Here's something that has been impossible for anyone to miss: There are more experts like me spewing trends than ever before. Last year, according to my search engine, there were 372,356 articles i...
Here's something that has been impossible for anyone to miss: There are more experts like me spewing trends than ever before. Last year, according to my search engine, there were 372,356 articles i...
Tony DeSio didn't set out to build the biggest nonfood franchise ever. As with many entrepreneurial ventures, it just sort of happened that way. Turn back the clock to 1980. DeSio, then 50 years ol...
Paul Saffo is a director at the Institute for the Future, a think tank whose clients include Nokia, Coca-Cola, and the U.S. Postal Service. He was interviewed by FORTUNE's Eric Nee.
You open the front door in your bathrobe and your jaw drops. There on the front porch is that Hewlett-Packard printer you ordered on the Internet last night. Standing right next to it is one of tho...
$99.95 Nokia's 918p prepaid cell phone is great for infrequent dialers who want to pay as they go, with no contract requirements. Check retailers such as Blockbuster and 7-Eleven.
PETCO www.petco.com Partner with an e-biz or become one? This supplier decided to pair up.
Yaffah daCosta, a 30-year computer systems and project-management veteran, hung out her shingle as a Y2K consultant in Texas a year ago, only to find customers staying away in droves. "There's no b...
To complete this list of the world's most admired companies, FORTUNE consulted a select group of experts--senior executives and outside board members of companies in each of the industries included...
Years ago, to support my computer habit I started hawking software by mail. When people actually began ordering, I naively bought sheets of stamps in various denominations, but they never quite mat...
My kids have just gone back to school. I'm back from vacation with the wife. So hello again.
DEAR ANNIE: I work in a petrochemical manufacturing facility. About two years ago, an employee who has a very incendiary personality was fired for sleeping on the job. This person had threatened ab...
Last weekend I moved into Digital Manor. I also tried to use the Web to tell various companies that I've changed my address. I learned this: The Web has done little for customer service.
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You know those illustrations that supposedly show human evolution--the ones in which a monkey turns into an ape, which turns into a Neanderthal and so on, until we reach the pinnacle of the species...
LAST CHRISTMAS, MY FRIEND SUZANNE in New Orleans sent a gift package to me in New York City by priority mail. The U.S. Postal Service advertises the two-year-old priority mail program as a "two-day...
WE LIKE TO THINK every issue of FORTUNE contains something guaranteed to delight, provoke, and enlighten you. And there's no surer sign that it does than when you write to tell us we've struck a ne...
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BIGGEST INCREASES IN REVENUES
Sending mail overseas? You have an alternative to the U.S. Postal Service--and to expensive overnight delivery outfits. Foreign post offices have set up shop in the U.S. to deliver mail abroad, oft...
THE JOKE FROM HELL
Q. When it comes to mutual funds, I've always been a strict no-sales-load investor. However, I've noticed in fund rankings that some funds with sales charges look good. The trouble is, I know that ...
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Since Federal Express pioneered fast-track deliveries 20 years ago, express mail services have snowballed into a blizzard of special fees, charges and choices. In order to narrow the field, we comp...
A decision to require tuberculosis tests for U.S. Postal Service job applicants in the Washington area has raised . . . concerns about how to curb the growing number of local TB cases without stepp...
Six bright-yellow taxicabs powered by compressed natural gas are now bouncing through the potholes of New York City, the newest contestants in the great race to create alternative-fuel vehicles. Th...
Found at last: a worker who doesn't mind cleaning bathrooms. Well, sort of a worker. Actually it's a robot named ScrubMate, under development at Transitions Research Corp. (TRC) of Danbury, Connect...
That these are wonderful times for aging neoconservative hypochondriacs with modems was borne out yet again on a recent Sunday morning around 6 A.M. This was when your servant awoke with a swollen,...
You may want to cut back on mail-order purchases in '91. Many catalogue companies, stung by recent sharp rate hikes by the U.S. Postal Service and United Parcel Service, are charging about 10% to 3...
The 52 cents stamp shown above, due out June 3, is already famous. That's because the U.S. Postal Service goofed. Notes on the border of 100-stamp sheets say Humphrey was Vice President from 1964 t...
There they go again. Those unscrupulous purveyors of 900-SCAM-OLA phone lines (see Money Update, August 1990) have come up with a new way to suck you in: deceptive sweepstakes offers promising ever...
A 29-cent stamp is irritating enough. Couldn't they have made it an easier 30 cents? Pennies are bothersome -- not like 20 years ago when a stamp cost 8 cents, the best seat to a Broadway show $15,...
ANALYSTS WILL OFTEN JUSTIFY stock recommendations on the basis of rosy earnings forecasts. While their overall accuracy is good -- 90% of quarterly forecasts are off by less than 10%, according to ...
NICHOLS INSTITUTE -- Okay, managers, time to take notes. The case study is this San Juan Capistrano, California, company, which performs diagnostic tests for hospitals, physicians, and laboratories...
Who says nobody writes letters anymore? Certainly not Fidelity. Last year it sent out 53 million pieces of mail, from redemption checks to prospectuses. It received 15 million from customers -- eno...
The U.S. Postal Service, now in the process of demanding still more rate increases to match its recent service decreases, is the largest mismanaged enterprise in America. We were thinking of puttin...
THE U.S. Postal Service does business with every American company and just about every American. But few outfits catch as much flak. Anthony M. Frank, 58, the fifth person to head the mail operatio...
TAXES Q. My job as a truck driver requires that I wear a uniform and clean my own shirts. Other employees deduct $400 to $500 in laundry bills annually. This alone wouldn't exceed 2% of my adjusted...
For the U.S. Postal Service in New York City, the Christmas mail rush was dress rehearsal for a period that's just about as hectic: April's proxy season. Proxies will boost the average number of pi...
In which your correspondent resumes his mysterious five-year-old custom of propounding ornately serpentine and syntactically suspect questions that for some reason generate a paucity of answers. --...
At last, an extremist is going to deal with the U.S. Postal Service. To be sure, the bomb thrower in question is only a consulting firm. But the firm being retained to study the Postalites is newly...
LONG IN A steep climb, the air express industry is going through a shakeout rougher than anyone expected only a few months ago. A fresh round of price cutting and a sudden slowdown in sales growth ...
Chelsea Industries Inc. Less seems to mean more at Chelsea, a Boston miniconglomerate. Revenues have dropped in three of the past five years as the company has been shedding doggy divisions and sea...
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Postal Service said today it will release at least 83 new stamps . . . The post office will also continue the annual Love series . . . (Other) items . . . will mark the 200th...
Fascinating organization, the U.S. Postal Service. Hard to fathom, though. To take just one question of unplumbable depth, how do you suppose the fellows decide which artists will get to do those '...
On the northwest coast of the continent, among the forested inlets above Vancouver, British Columbia, there lives a tribe of Native Americans called the Kwakiutl. While nowadays much reduced in num...
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