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• Severe Weather Impacting Service in Washington

  Source: UPS / www.ups.com / January 15th, 2020 Severe weather is impacting service in areas of Washington. There will be no pickups or deliveries today in the affected areas. We will work to ensure th...

• Postmaster general delays retirement as USPS seeks successor

  By Mark Solomon / www.freightwaves.com / January 6th, 2019 Postmaster General Megan J. Brennan has delayed her planned Jan. 31 retirement as the U.S. Postal Service’s (USPS) Board of Governors continu...

• Many Unhappy Returns

  By Mike Porter / www.mailingsystemstechnology.com / January 6th, 2019 Sometime this month take a stroll through the back of your mail center. Somewhere stashed out of sight you might notice stacks of ...

• January 2nd, 2020 is ‘National Returns Day’ and UPS anticipates nearly 2 million unwanted gifts to ship

  By CNBC Staff / www.cnbc.com / January 2nd, 2020 Key Points United Parcel Service on Thursday expects to ship 1.9 million gifts and other items back to U.S. retailers as e-commerce fuels an anticipate...

• UPS anticipates a record-breaking returns season after the holidays

  By Dalvin Brown / www.usatoday.com / December 26th, 2019 On the heels of a record-breaking holiday shopping season, United Parcel Service is anticipating a record number of shipped returns.  UPS said ...

• FedEx Service Interruptions Scheduled for January 8-19, 2020

  Source: FedEx / www.fedex.com / December 30th, 2019 Please be advised of the following important service update from FedEx. Customers using FedEx Web Services will be unable to process certain transac...

• Merry Christmas & Happy New Year from Ship Watchers

  The time has come once again and seemingly quicker this year, to wish everyone a Very Merry Christmas and a Joyous New Year as we say good-bye to 2019 and ring in a new decade for 2020! Ship Watchers ...

• USPS to Deliver 28 Million Packages a Day This Week

  By Ina Steiner / www.ecommercebytes.com / December 17th, 2019 The US Postal Service said it expects to deliver 28 million packages a day this week, making it the busiest mailing and shipping week of t...

• FedEx suffers from loss of Amazon and loss of direction

  By Thomas Cullen / www.ti-insight.com / December 19th, 2019 FedEx’s fortunes continue to deteriorate despite the buoyancy of e-retailing demand. The Memphis-based company’s latest results for the seco...

• UPS, FedEx say bad weather nationwide responsible for some delivery delays

  By David Patch / www.toledoblade.com / December 13th, 2019 While Toledo’s weather over the past month has rarely been worse than cold, winter storms in other parts of the United States have contribute...