FedEx News Press Release FedEx SmartPost Introduces Returns Service Collaboration with U.S. Postal Service Will Provide Millions of Access Points for Customers Returning Packages September 10, 2009 FedEx SmartPost announced today that it is introducing a new and convenient way for consumers to return items back to a retailer using the U.S. Postal Service for […]
The USPS alliance with FedEx to provide Global Express Guaranteed (GXG) service has been extended for a five-year term. The renewed GXG agreement — under which the two companies will collaborate to operate the Postal Service’s premier, date-certain international delivery service to more than 190 countries and territories — continues an alliance that began in […]
The Postal Service first entered into a contract with FedEx to provide air transportation in 2001 for $6.3 billion. On Aug. 2, 2006, the USPS announced that it had ‘truncated the original contract and signed a new seven-year agreement that included an “immediate price reduction in all contract categories.” The revised contract allowed the Postal […]
Potential McCain VP Pick Fred Smith: Bad For America, Bad For Workers WASHINGTON, DC July 30, 2008 – The following is a statement from Change to Win Chair Anna Burger regarding recent speculation that union-busting FedEx CEO Fred Smith is on presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain’s short list for vice-presidential picks: “Recent reports that […]
NALC Presdient William Young released the following message: My thanks to all of you who responded to my call over the weekend to contact Senators Bill Nelson, Ben Nelson, Mark Pyror and Blanche Lincoln. At present, Senator Harkin’s amendment to the Labor-HHS appropriations bill that would make it easier for FedEx workers to organize a […]
From NALC President William Young: In last year’s postal reform bill, we secured our collective bargaining rights. The ability to form a union and to negotiate collectively ensures workplace fairness and a decent standard of living. Every American worker should have that ability. It is especially important to letter carriers that workers from competing delivery […]