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C&D Couriers Services Banking Customers with APRIVA Freight Tracker; Real-Time Information from All-in-One Wireless Product Ensures Service Contracts are Met.


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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 3, 2003

APRIVA Inc., a leading wireless solution provider, today announced that C&D Couriers, a Dallas-based courier service, is using APRIVA Freight Tracker to win contracts delivering daily transactions for several large banks. Using Freight Tracker, C&D Couriers is able to streamline its pick-up and delivery process between banking hubs and branch offices.

"We are very pleased to be working with C&D Couriers," said Kevin Hickey, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board.  of APRIVA. "The market for wireless adoption in the courier space is significant, and Freight Tracker was designed to increase revenue, operational efficiencies and improve customer service. C&D Couriers has been quick to realize the value wireless technology brings, and is actively passing the value along to its customers."

The banking industry places a premium on pickups and deliveries; it is regular practice for banks and couriers to sign service agreements ensuring the timely and secure pickup and delivery of items such as mail and cashed checks for processing. The inability to meet these service agreements has significant repercussions repercussions nplrépercussions fpl

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 for courier services, such as loss of revenue, or in some instances, loss of business.

C&D Couriers realized real-time wireless technology could help it manage service agreements and reconcile disputes. The courier's drivers use a handheld device loaded with Freight Tracker software to wirelessly perform common tasks such as accessing the day's pick-up and delivery schedule, time stamping time stamping

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Integration is usually attained by enactment of a statute that grants authority to the highest court of the state to integrate
 code scanner, and transmitting electronic proof of delivery to headquarters to quickly initiate the billing cycle Billing cycle

The time elapsed between billing periods for goods sold or services rendered.
. Because Freight Tracker transforms handhelds into "smart devices," drivers are able to capture and store the data while continuing to work even when in out of network coverage areas.

"We are committed to becoming one of the largest couriers in the banking space, and APRIVA's Freight Tracker is helping us to move toward that goal," said Charles West Charles West may refer to:
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, co-founder and vice president of C&D Couriers. "With Freight Tracker, we can issue real-time updates to our drivers in the field, they can validate pick-up and delivery times by scanning bank bags, and wirelessly transmit the information so we have a record of when we took possession of the bag. These things "These Things" is an EP by She Wants Revenge, released in 2005 by Perfect Kiss, a subsidiary of Geffen Records. Music Video
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 are very important to our business, and we have confidence that the implementation of Freight Tracker will help win new accounts for us."

About C&D Couriers

C&D Couriers is a Dallas-based courier service that was established in 1991 and is led with more than 20 years of delivery service industry experience. C&D Couriers specialize in establishing scheduled routes, but also offer regular and unscheduled unscheduled
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not planned or intended

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 delivery services. C&D Couriers provides quality service that ensures customers' packages will always be delivered to the right hands at the right time. For more information on C&D Couriers, please visit www.cdcouriers.com or call 972/458-2342.

About APRIVA

APRIVA, a privately held company privately held company

A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly.
 based in Scottsdale, is a leading provider of wireless sales/marketing, payment processing, logistics and inventory management applications for a variety of industries including financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject.
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, freight transportation and media publications. The company solves business problems where secure, real-time exchange of critical information produces more revenue, higher productivity and greater customer responsiveness. APRIVA's applications are powered by the company's own Intelligent Gateway, which provides flexible and powerful transaction processing Updating the appropriate database records as soon as a transaction (order, payment, etc.) is entered into the computer. It may also imply that confirmations are sent at the same time.

Transaction processing systems are the backbone of an organization because they update constantly.
 while freeing customers from the complexity of wireless computing. Today, hundreds of companies have deployed APRIVA wireless solutions. For more information about APRIVA, please visit www.apriva.com or call 480/421-1210.
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