Small-parcel shipping has entered an era defined less by brand loyalty and more by cost transparency, resilience, and speed. Shippers are diversifying away from single-carrier dependency toward a ...

The three major parcel carriers had a decent peak holiday season in terms of on-time performance, seeing service levels comparable to 2019, not a huge surprise as volumes were lighter even though ...

Supply chain shifts have influenced the best practices of less-than-truckload and parcel service providers over the past few years. To gain access to the growing deferred air freight segment, for ...

In many respects, the parcel market of 2024 still looks very much like that of 40 years ago when RPS broke into a practical monopoly of UPS (NYSE:UPS). While transit time is faster for ground service, ...

Gary Frantz is a contributing editor for DC Velocity and its sister publication, Supply Chain Xchange. He is a veteran communications executive with more than 30 years of experience in the ...

40th Annual Quest for Quality Awards: Service stars in the new era of collaboration Which carriers, third-party logistics providers and U.S. ports reached the pinnacle of service excellence over the ...

Rick Thomas, senior vice president of business development with GEODIS, offers an overview of current parcel carrier rates and surcharges, and what the coming peak season might look like. Parcel ...

Parcel shippers need to strike a delicate balance between loyalty to carriers and the desire to diversifying their service providers, says Oscar Gladman, director of parcel carrier development with ...

Not a subscriber? Apply online today. Coming off of a year in which many aspects of everyday life have fundamentally changed, market conditions in the highly competitive parcel express market have ...

Gary Frantz is a contributing editor for DC Velocity and its sister publication, Supply Chain Xchange. He is a veteran communications executive with more than 30 years of experience in the ...

The possibility of a major disruptive event, such as the Yellow Freight bankruptcy and a potential UPS strike, brought to light the vulnerability of the nation’s supply chain. From COVID-19 to ongoing ...

Delivery service SpeedX has opened an e-commerce superhub in Chicago capable of processing up to 500,000 shipments per day, culminating a blistering expansion for the three-year-old company this year.