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This precision will most likely prove to be UPS's best tool as it absorbs a major industry shift--the rapid rise of e-commerce. Residential delivery this year will account for about a third of domestic shipping, up from 20% in 1997, according to the investment bank Morgan Stanley. Meeting this new demand is vital for UPS, which generates roughly 60% of its revenue from the U.S. small-package market...
...This shift presents a logistical puzzle, because there's no way the engineers can make a single Amazon shipment to the far reaches of, say, Alaska economical. The answer might surprise you: UPS and FedEx are now outsourcing delivery to a longtime rival, the U.S. Postal Service. "The postal service is already mandated by Congress to stop at every house," Caldwell says. "So why not outsource that last-mile delivery?" In other words, let USPS handle the money losers...
...natal” is extremely misleading, since the aid is clearly intended for children that already exist, rather than parents. Furthermore, even if the cessation of these subsidies would eventually normalize Gaza’s population, which we do not believe to be true, this shift would not take effect for nearly decades after the aid’s removal. Relying on a policy that works so slowly, when citizens of Gaza are suffering on a daily basis, is unthinkable—not to mention the Palestinians who could starve as a result...
...April, Novey will be running the Boston Marathon dressed in a burger suit. As he prepares for this endeavor, he’s asking community members and businesses to contribute to Citizen Schools, a charity that brings volunteers to teach a second shift of educational material after school in middle schools nationwide. In the months leading up to the marathon, Burgerman has planned plenty of publicity stunts to drum up donations—he’s hoping for 1,000 new small donors in the next two weeks, with an ultimate goal of $100,000 in contributions...
...hypothesis that melodic intonation therapy would shift a patient’s language center from the left hemisphere to the right hemisphere is exactly what we’ve seen, which is very exciting,” said Sarah Marchina, a research fellow at Beth Israel who also works with Schlaug...