`Parcel@Home', New B2C Delivery Partnership, Announced by U.s. Postal Service and Emery Worldwide.Business Editors REDWOOD CITY Redwood City, city (1990 pop. 66,072), seat of San Mateo co., W Calif., on San Francisco Bay; inc. 1868. Manufactures include commmunications, electrical, electronic, and medical equipment. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 15, 2000 Offers Most Extensive Dock-to-Residence Service in the U.S. For Multi-Piece Shipments Up to 70 Pounds Per Piece The U.S. Postal Service The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) processes and delivers mail to individuals and businesses within the United States. The service seeks to improve its performance through the development of efficient mail-handling systems and operates its own planning and engineering programs. (USPS (1) (Uninterruptible Switching Power Supply) A power supply for a computer that contains its own battery and uninterruptible power supply (UPS) circuitry. See power supply and UPS. ) and Emery Worldwide Emery Worldwide was a cargo airline, once was one of the leading carriers in the cargo airline world. Emery started in 1946 and was the first freight forwarder to receive a carrier certificate from the United States Government. , the global heavyweight air cargo air cargo: see aviation. subsidiary of CNF CNF Configuration (File Name Extension) CNF Conference CNF Conjunctive Normal Form CNF Could Not Find CNF Chin National Front (Burma) CNF Canadian Nature Federation CNF Cornell NanoScale Facility , Inc., (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :CNF), jointly announced today a new "Parcel@Home" logistics program that will provide businesses with the most comprehensive dock-to-residence delivery service available in the country. The new program, a partnership between Emery and the Postal Service postal service, arrangements made by a government for the transmission of letters, packages, and periodicals, and for related services. Early courier systems for government use were organized in the Persian Empire under Cyrus, in the Roman Empire, and in medieval , was announced at a press conference conducted jointly by John Kelly John Kelly or Jack Kelly is the name of: People
According to Piazza and Kelly, the new Parcel@Home program offers shippers reliable business-to-consumer delivery service to every residential address in the country. The service is targeted for shippers of high-value computers and home electronic products and it specializes in home delivery of multiple-piece shipments, weighing up to 70 pounds per piece. "Parcel@Home combines the nation's largest fleet of aircraft dedicated to heavyweight cargo transport with the world's most comprehensive residential postal delivery network, reaching more than 130 million points via 234,000 postal carriers representing on a daily basis virtually every home address in the United States," Piazza said. "It brings a new level of service to the business-to-residence delivery market, a market in which we anticipate substantial growth as more consumers order goods through e-commerce, telemarketing and mail order sources. "Wherever a shipper is based, this new service means on time, every time, delivery of products when promised anywhere in the United States. And most important, it is a seamless service from dock-to-residence, utilizing the convenience of either the tracking system of Emery Worldwide or that of the Postal Service." Piazza and Kelly detailed the highlights of Parcel@Home, beginning with pickup of bulk, pre-sorted shipments at the shipper's dock, with the options of cost effective residential delivery on a two-, three-, or four-day service, depending on final destination or shipper selection. Electronic delivery confirmation and full traceability are also among the value-added services. "We're offering good old-fashioned reliable service with high-tech logistics for seamless delivery of a range of B2C (Business to Consumer) Refers to a business communicating with or selling to an individual rather than a company. See B2B. shipments for a weight previously unavailable," Piazza explained. The seamless freight flow begins at the shipping customer's distribution center or factory where Emery picks up the palletized shipments, which are then flown via the company's heavyweight air freight network. After processing at Emery's Global Sortation Identifying objects that are stamped with a bar code and routing them to the appropriate destination. Sortation is typically a high-speed process used in the transportation industry by companies such as Federal Express, UPS and others. See sort and bar code. Center in Dayton, Ohio, the palletized shipments are delivered to regional USPS facilities for zip-code sorting en route to home delivery through the USPS' extensive residential network. "This is an efficient way to gain the maximum economies of moving bulk-shipment pallets throughout the United States for local, individual residential distribution," Piazza said. Emery Worldwide specializes in time-definite transportation services for business-to-business shippers of heavyweight cargo. A $2.4-billion company, Emery provides global air and ocean freight transportation, logistics management, customs brokerage and expedited services to manufacturing, industrial, retail and government customers. Based in Redwood City, Calif., Emery operates in 229 countries through a worldwide network of more than 500 service centers and agent locations. CNF Inc., Emery's parent company, is a $5.6-billion management company of global supply chain services with businesses in regional trucking, air freight, ocean freight, customs brokerage, logistics management and trailer manufacturing, based in Palo Alto, Calif. For other Emery Worldwide news, visit the Emery website www.emeryworld.com |
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