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How the Little Red Wagon was nearly derailed by … shipping labels?

6 August 2021

Sales of the Little Red Wagon were on fire in 2020.

Radio Flyer, the iconic 104-year-old maker of the red wagon as well as with tricycles, ride-ons, bikes, inflatables and more, saw demand for its products increase significantly during the pandemic, driven in no small part by the demands of online commerce. While the Chicago-based company maintains a warehouse near its headquarters to fulfill direct-to-consumer orders, retailers were demanding more.

“In recent years, we were asked by our retail...

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Data breach hits 44 big Canada Post shippers, exposing nearly 1M customers

26 May 2021

A Canada Post truck viewed from the size.

Canada Post said on Wednesday that a cyberattack and data breach on an electronic data interchange (EDI) supplier has compromised information from 44 of its large parcel business customers, affecting nearly 1 million recipients.

The attack on Ontario-based Commport Communications compromised the shipping manifest data of the customers. Canada Post, Canada’s government-run postal carrier, did not identify the customers.

About 950,000 recipients were impacted by the breach, Canada Post said. The...

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Disruption and price rise alert to shippers as the peak season looms

22 September 2020

Shippers – particularly those in e-commerce – have been advised to begin planning for potential supply chain disruption and rising prices as the peak season looms.
Speaking on Reuters webinar yesterday, on the upcoming peak season, Canada Post chief operating officer Charles Brewer warned that supply chains had undergone a transformation due to Covid-19 and the subsequent lockdowns which had had a huge impact on retail supply chains – most notably …

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Today’s Pickup: Purolator is doing much better than Canada Post

27 May 2020

A Purloator driver making a less-than-truckload delivery

Good day,

Purolator, the courier and less-than-truckload subsidiary of Canada Post, had a decent first quarter – all things considered.

Revenue grew by 5.1% to C$457 million (about $331 million) year-over-year, while net profit dropped by 5.9% to C$8 million. Canada Post reported those numbers as part of its first-quarter financial report, which was released on March 25.

Purolator also performed much better than Canada Post as a whole. The government-owned postal carrier, which owns more than 90%...

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