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The Teamsters union has said it will not begin to bargain for a new national contract with UPS Inc....

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/teamsters-say-no-on-national-talks-until-local-agreements-resolved

OnTrac and LaserShip formally announced late Friday plans to rebrand into what may presumably be the more familiar and easier-to-pronounce “OnTrac” name.

Separately, the rebranded firm, which had been known as LaserShip-OnTrac, finalized plans to enter the Texas market with service to Austin, San Antonio, Houston and Dallas. The expansion, which is set to start July 14 but which could begin sooner, will add millions of consumers to OnTrac’s 250 million-person addressable network. 

Chicago is...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/ontrac-lasership-rebrand-into-ontrac-name

Twenty-six years ago, the U.S. Postal Service stepped into the breach when a strike by the Teamsters union shut down virtually all of UPS Inc.’s domestic delivery network. By the accounts of people who were around at the time, the Postal Service performed admirably under difficult circumstances.

More than a quarter-century later, the same scenario confronts the parcel-shipping world, and people are again looking to the Postal Service for relief. Can it come through?

The fact is that with 21...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/will-postal-service-ride-to-the-rescue-if-teamsters-strike-maybenbsp

Western regional parcel carrier GLS hopes that it can save its shippers significant money by being very specific about how it costs out its services.

The Dutch carrier, with U.S. headquarters in Santa Fe Springs, California, recently announced the launch of its Zone 0 — defined by GLS as super short-haul, super-dense urban areas — and Zone 1 pricing tiers, in what it called a more targeted approach to parcel pricing than what it is offered by the large carriers.

According to GLS, its strategy...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/gls-aims-to-save-parcel-shippers-big-with-small-haul-pricing