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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.

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Preferred Shipping signs re-seller agreement with Lone Star Overnight

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Under the terms of this agreement, the companies said that Preferred will sell LSO’s services, including same-day, next-day, scheduled, and day-definite guaranteed deliveries up to 150 pounds. . On the LSO side, the LSO spokeswoman said that Preferred can offer their customers a better choice in regional package delivery with LSO. .

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They operate with less infrastructure than other technologies, for example–stocktaking without forklifts and personnel.”. BMW, for example, has started to use dronesat its factory in Leipzig to count external storage bins for parts – work that was previously done by personnel. Philipp Wrycza, research fellow, Fraunhofer IML.

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U.S. Dept. of Treasury Task Force issues report to help remedy financial outlook for USPS

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Congress also killed the opportunity to save significant dollars by eliminating Saturday Mail Delivery (keeping Package delivery), Surveys showed Americans were in favor of this change.”. economy and in rural areas, communities, and small towns; and the state of the USPS business model, workforce, operations, costs, and pricing.