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...pick FedEx packages up from your door and deliver them right to your door. In effect, that would hand FedEx the Postal Service's crown jewel: the exclusive, government-mandated right to open the mailbox at the end of every American driveway, known in the industry as "the last mile." For all their planes and trucks, none of the private carriers can match the USPS's ground-based delivery network...
Ultimately, however, the real beneficiary of a USPS-FedEx alliance will be the Memphis-based powerhouse. Besides gaining access to that "last mile" to Aunt Edna's mailbox, FedEx could leverage the arrangement by planting drop-off boxes in post-office lobbies. Even if government regulators limit the combination on antitrust grounds, FedEx is steaming ahead with other joint ventures, including a deal with the French postal agency La Poste. Fred Smith has already proved FedEx's global fortitude. Most analysts see his domestic strategy as a shrewd way to position his 29-year-old company for what many believe...
Graduate students also have the option of obtaining one of the 2,300 rental apartments within one mile of Harvard Yard that are owned by Harvard and run through Harvard Planning and Real Estate (HPRE). But these apartments are rented at market value, with no discount for Harvard students...
...thought the title sounded nice enough. And I thought it might make me feel a little better about school and Stradlater. I had a feeling that it was not a book that my older brother Allie would read, because he could always spot a phoney from a mile away when he was still alive, but I read it just because I do things like that sometimes, ya know...
...this country without ever getting out of our cars, we're a pretty sedentary lot. You can bank at the drive-up and grab dinner at the drive-through. For the ambitiously lazy, there's the drive-by shooting. But a suburban Pittsburgh man has taken sloth the extra mile. Who else but an American would open the world's first drive-through strip joint...