Postal services in Europe and around the world plan to halt shipping merchandise to the US as the Trump administration’s end of the de minimus tariff exemption goes into effect. The “de minimus” exemption allowed internation carriers to ship goods valued under $800 to the US without paying any duties. The White …
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The article posted last week on the World Socialist Web Site on the results of the latest route evaluations at the US Postal Service has evoked a wide response from rural letter carriers. The evaluations, which ended last week, confirmed massive cuts in pay for the vast majority of rural …
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London CNN Business — UK postal service Royal Mail (ROYMY) said Friday that it could cut 6,000 jobs as it warned of a big loss this year, which it blamed on a wave of strikes and a decline in its parcel delivery business. About 110,000 Royal Mail staff went on …
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The global postal system is a wonder of modern logistics and engineering. The fact that you can ship a physical object to anyone anywhere in the world in under a day is a testament to how far we’ve come. In the early days of postal services, mail was transported on …
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As far back as 2016, diginomica was deeply skeptical about the ‘King Canute’ like comments of Fedex founder and CEO Fred Smith about the disruptive impact of e-commerce – and particularly Amazon – on his business: The concerns about industry disruption continue to be fuelled by fantastical – and let …
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