Logistics

USPS Sells Out on Zip Code Having your own zip code is no longer just the punch line to a fat joke. The U.S. Postal Service has allowed Saks Fifth Avenue to have its own vanity zip code -- for the shoe department at its flagship Fifth Avenue store ...
Availability Is What Matters To The Warfighter Historically, the government bought military equipment, supplies and services “by the yard” with relatively little thought as to the costs of integrating all the parts and activities. How the troops used . . .
Public-Private Partnerships It has been six years and three days since the Al Qaeda attack on the American homeland. I doubt anyone in this room woke up on September 12th, assuming you were able to sleep that night, thinking it . . .
Postal Outsourcing Makes Sense as Crucial Cost-Cutting Measure To listen to the leadership of America’s postal unions, you might think that the Postal Service was dead-set on hiring convicted felons to deliver the mail. Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, proposes to prohibit ...
USPS Rolls Over in Negotiations — Again The U.S. Postal Service and one of its largest unions, the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC), just reached a tentative agreement on a new five-year contract. Union head William Young called the ...
PBL: A Success Story Performance-Based Logistics (PBL) is the purchase of support as an integrated, affordable, performance package designed to optimize system readiness and meet performance goals through long-term support . . .
Performance-Based Agreements: The Future of Defense Weapons Systems Support The United States military faces two related crises. First is the tightening of defense budgets, certainly as the U.S. presence in Iraq winds down, but increasingly likely regardless. Second are the growing . . .
Post Office May Not Last ‘forever’: An Interview with Charles Guy The Postal Service is billing its 41-cent "forever" stamp as a customer convenience. But the agency's former chief economist says it's also designed to ease the way for a series of future rate increases...
Postal Unions Picketing to Charge More for Stamps "I can't believe the American public wants private contractors delivering their mail," said William Young, president of the National Association of Letter Carriers, prior to a protest staged recently in Washington,
Getting To A 21st Century Supply Chain The Department of Defense (DoD) directs the largest and most complex supply chain in the world. DoD spends at least $150 billion a year on goods and services and their delivery to end users. The Defense . . .
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