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A New Year’s Resolution for Delivery Companies — Ending Porch Piracy

Morai Logistics

More Deliveries Means More Opportunities for Thieves to Ruin Someone’s Holidays. The growing number of package deliveries correlates to the continued rise of online shopping. Total US ecommerce sales is estimated to be $353.7 Unfortunately, the number of delivery thefts has also grown. billion by 2021.

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This Week in Logistics News (September 4-8, 2017)

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In response to Hurricane Harvey, for example, JDRF and other organizations shipped more than 3,750 pounds of donated diabetes supplies to Houston (including 200,000 syringes, 50,000 pen needles and 20,000 alcohol pads) to help people with diabetes affected by the hurricane. IPO (Reuters).

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This Week in Logistics News (June 25-29, 2018)

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Startups to Deliver Packages for Amazon. What do you do when demand for package delivery outstrips capacity? In Amazon’s case, the company has been investing for years in it’s own delivery assets and capabilities to augment those of UPS, USPS, FedEx, and other partners (see Amazon: Disruptor or Distraction?