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OSM Worldwide to avoid peak-season parcel-delivery surcharges

10 October 2023

OSM Worldwide, which dubs itself the nation’s fifth-largest e-commerce parcel delivery provider, said Tuesday it will not impose peak-season delivery surcharges.

OSM joins delivery providers such as Veho and AxleHire to not impose any delivery surcharges this holiday season.

Chicago-based OSM is a postal work-share provider, meaning that it aggregates packages for induction into the Postal Service’s transport infrastructure for residential deliveries. OSM uses the Postal Service’s Parcel Select...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/osm-worldwide-to-avoid-peak-season-parcel-delivery-surcharges

Check Call: Amazon Freight of tomorrow

26 October 2021

Hot Takes

Last week we took a little trip down memory lane to learn just how Amazon Freight got its start. Some may be more intimately familiar with the origin story than others. Amazon Freight is primed to become the next UPS and won’t stop until it achieves that status, regardless of the cost.

Amazon Freight has around 40,000 trucks through independent contractors that do one-way trips, with the goal moving forward of getting backhauls or partnerships with...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/check-call-amazon-freight-of-tomorrow

LaserShip names Mike Roth, top Amazon logistics executive, interim CEO: Source

15 October 2021

Regional parcel delivery carrier LaserShip, which is poised to acquire fellow regional carrier OnTrac for about $1.3 billion, has named Mike Roth, a longtime Amazon.com Inc. operations executive, as its interim CEO, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Barring an unforeseen event, Roth will steer the integration of the two companies, which is expected to lead to the development of the first national parcel delivery network built from regional players. Roth succeeds Brett Bissell, who...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/lasership-names-mike-roth-top-amazon-logistics-executive-interim-ceo-source

OnTrac to stop accepting new peak business on Sept. 1

19 August 2021

Regional parcel delivery carrier OnTrac, which serves eight western states including every zip code in California, will not take on any new fourth-quarter business after Sept. 1, a company executive confirmed Wednesday.

Businesses will need to be fully onboarded with the Phoenix-based carrier as of that date for their parcels to be moved during the peak holiday shipping season, Mark Magill, OnTrac’s vice president of business development, told FreightWaves in e-mailed comments.

OnTrac...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/ontrac-to-stop-accepting-new-peak-business-on-sept-1

FedEx, UPS holiday advice to big shippers: Bring the big wallet

1 September 2020

FedEx Corp. (NYSE:FDX) and UPS Inc. (NYSE:UPS) have a holiday message for their big customers: Prepare to pay up or prepare to pound sand.

An extraordinary year for parcel shipping will conclude with an equally extraordinary peak season. Carriers are bracing for unprecedented volumes as the normal holiday shop and ship hysteria meets the abnormal nine-month surge in e-commerce as consumers continue to avoid stores due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Just as unprecedented, however, will be the...

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