Resource Center/Article • 08/19/2021
Carriers Seek More Efficiencies as Peak Looms Ahead
Seasonal hiring begins, along with scaling a robotic sorting army, pending surcharges, and – ride-sharing service Uber in the mix, too?
PARCEL CARRIER NEWS
FedEx
- Carrier announces plans to hire 80,000 employees across U.S. as part of direct effort to meet high residential delivery demands – starting with 3,000 in Memphis, TN.
- Carrier sees promising results from – and expects to amp up – experimental “AI-enabled robotics system” being used in Queens New York to automate previously manual sorting process. FedEx anticipates that this experimental system, dubbed the Robotic Production Sortation and Identification (RPSi) system, will better position the carrier to handle large-scale e-commerce orders faster. Notably, the RPSi “can autonomously pick, identify, sort, collect and containerise small packages at scale, a process that is traditionally processed and sorted manually. The system can handle a wide array of routine packages, including individual polybags, tubes, padded mailers, and more.”
UPS
In Q2 2021 Quarterly Earnings, the carrier disclosed healthy margin growth amidst operational investments and continued high market demand.
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