Delivery Companies Brace for the Pre-Christmas Crush
December 17, 2017Package-delivery companies are bracing for their busiest week of the holiday season, and one with less room for error. Read more here....
Postal Service Pushing the Envelope with Congress; Bailout Demands, Higher Prices and a March 1 Deadline
December 13, 2017The U.S. Postal Service is gearing up to send taxpayers and postal customers a multi-billion dollar “payment due” notice. Congress should halt delivery. The Postal Service’s push gained considerable steam on December 1. On that day, the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC), which oversees the Postal Service, issued a report on the...
2 Transportation Stocks for a Recovering Europe
December 9, 2017Many strategists are making Europe sound great again as they dish out their 2018 picks. It helps that valuations for the region’s stocks still aren’t that stretched. In fact, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development expects the euro zone’s gross domestic product to grow by 2.1% next year, down from...
Postal Service Should Deliver Turnaround Plan
December 8, 2017Unless the U.S. Postal Service comes up with a turnaround plan to stop hemorrhaging money soon, taxpayers and consumers likely will be hit with a bailout bill of well in excess of $50 billion. Click here for the full article....
Federal Regulators Just Cleared the Way for Your Stamps to Get Much More Expensive
December 1, 2017Seeking to bolster the ailing U.S. Postal Service, federal regulators moved on Friday to allow bigger jumps to stamp prices beyond the rate of inflation, a move that could eventually add millions more dollars to companies’ shipping rates from prescription drugs to magazine subscriptions. Click here for the full article....