CitySprint 1-800-DELIVER to Provide Barnes & Noble.com With Same Day Delivery Services.Business Editors NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 16, 2000 CitySprint(R) 1-800-DELIVER(TM) (Amex: RPD RPD Rapid RPD Radiation Protection Dosimetry RPD Rapid Product Development RPD Rochester Police Department RPD Recurrent Pattern Detection (Commtouch anti-spam engine) RPD Relative Percent Difference RPD Removable Partial Denture ), which provides fast, efficient, same-day delivery services around the corner and around the globe, announced today that it has become the provider of same-day delivery service for Barnes & Noble.com Same Day Delivery. The new Barnes & Noble.com rapid-delivery service enables customers to order from the world's largest in-stock selection of books and have their merchandise delivered the same day at standard shipping rates. Additionally, the service extends to the company's enormous range of music CDs, including the most comprehensive selection of classical music, opera, international music and Broadway show tunes. CitySprint 1-800-DELIVER (www.citysprint.com) has been delivering Barnes & Noble.com orders on a next-day basis successfully since October 1999. With the launch of Barnes & Noble.com's Same Day Delivery in the Borough of Manhattan, CitySprint will pick-up products twice each day from Barnes & Noble.com (www.bn.com) and will deliver by 7:00 P.M. orders that have been placed by 11:00 A.M. and which CitySprint picks up by 2:00 P.M. the same day. The service includes residential and business addresses; business addresses will be delivered only on business days. "We are very pleased to be working with Barnes & Noble.com," said Steve Swink, 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 Dispatch Management Services, parent of CitySprint 1-800-DELIVER. "Barnes & Noble.com is a leader in online retailing in books and music, and CitySprint is a leader in e-commerce delivery solutions. Together we are optimizing that last mile link issue confronting online retailers whose customers demand delivery in Internet time In the early days of the public Internet, Internet time referred to the breakneck speed with which companies scrambled to gain traffic and market share on the Web. A new business could come and go within a matter of weeks. ." "CitySprint has a demonstrated a consistent record of on-time delivery for us," said Bill Duffy, vice president of operations for Barnes & Noble.com, "and they offer complete capabilities for electronic order tracking, state-of-the-art dispatching and, importantly, specialized spe·cial·ize v. spe·cial·ized, spe·cial·iz·ing, spe·cial·iz·es v.intr. 1. To pursue a special activity, occupation, or field of study. 2. e-commerce tracking and distribution centers. We are pleased to be working with them to serve our customers' need for same-day delivery of online orders." CitySprint 1-800-DELIVER, the international brand of Dispatch Management Services (Amex: RPD), provides fast, efficient, same-day delivery services around the corner and around the globe. The first internationally branded, urgent, on-demand delivery service, CitySprint 1-800-DELIVER brings a new standard of quality, reliability and service to the same-day delivery industry. With a global workforce of more than 6,000 people, operations in 23 of the largest metropolitan markets in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. and offices in the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand New Zealand (zē`lənd), island country (2005 est. pop. 4,035,000), 104,454 sq mi (270,534 sq km), in the S Pacific Ocean, over 1,000 mi (1,600 km) SE of Australia. The capital is Wellington; the largest city and leading port is Auckland. , CitySprint services customers ranging from Fortune 500 companies to independent at-home businesses. CitySprint offers a broad range of services to customers with single and multi-city presence including: warehousing and logistics, facilities management The management of a user's computer installation by an outside organization. All operations including systems, programming and the datacenter can be performed by the facilities management organization on the user's premises. , attorney services and the company's core competency A core competency is something that a firm can do well and that meets the following three conditions specified by Hamel and Prahalad (1990):
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