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This Week in Logistics News (May 30 – June 3, 2016)

Talking Logistics

One of my supply chain and logistics predictions for 2016 was that drones would have a breakout year — not in delivering packages to consumers, but in yard and warehouse management. DAT Launches Streamlined TMS for New Freight Brokers. From one month down to one day — now that’s a significant reduction in time and labor savings!

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USPS Slowdown of First-Class Mail on Oct. 1: What Delays and Price Hikes Mean for You

Intelligent Audit

Of course, this change is not necessarily a sweeping variation to the movement of non-flat packages. Arizona, Montana, Oregon and Washington may see more than half of their first-class mail deliveries slow down.”. Such processes help shippers identify package anomalies before they contribute to disruptions and potential delays.

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What’s the Hold-up with COVID Vaccinations? Don’t Hold Your Breath…a 2021 Prediction

NC State SCRC

But then you have this huge gap in the center of the country – the Dakotas, Montana, Wyoming, New Mexico, parts of West Texas – where there isn’t a lot of cold storage capacity. Using data from the Homeland Infrastructure Foundation, we identified what the public refrigerated warehouse map actually looks like.