CBS News - (CBS) This is the busiest week of the year for shipping packaged, as people purchase holiday gifts and send them off to friends and family. For some tips on getting last-minute packages through on-time and in one piece, The Early Show consumer
Oswego Palladium-Times - With all of the places that people have the option of shopping, there is one place that many will end up; the post office. At the Oswego post office, the sounds of the season were holiday greetings mixed with the rustle of brown paper as final
Newsday - The 26-acre site was heavily contaminated with petroleum products left behind by ExxonMobil, whose predecessor companies operated a shipping terminal in Ogdensburg from the late 1880s until 1984. The Fort LaPresentation Association, a nonprofit group
MSN MoneyCentral - EDMONTON, Alberta, Dec. 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Medical Services International Inc. (OTC: MSITF) is pleased to announce that it has received orders for its VScan HIV, Hepatitis C, and Tuberculosis (TB) test kits from Greece. The initial orders
Channel NewsAsia - NEW YORK : World oil prices rebounded on Tuesday as the market reacted to thick fog barring Gulf of Mexico tankers from a busy shipping channel in Texas, traders said. New York's main contract, light sweet crude for delivery in January, added 94
Washington Post - Why Corporate Greed is Shipping American Jobs Overseas." A promo for the book on the CNN Web site states: "The shipment of American jobs to cheap foreign labor markets threatens not only millions of workers and their families, but also the American
Herald Tribune - SEOUL: About a year ago, China and South Korea each opened a major seaport. Today, the Yangshan port, built on an island near Shanghai, is operating at full speed, handling an estimated three million shipping container boxes this year. It is a
Forbes - The strategy of luring holiday shopping procrastinators with extended shipping guarantees paid off handsomely for online retailers," Gian Fulgoni, chairman of comScore Networks, said in a statement. ComScore raised its forecast for total spending this
Minneapolis Star Tribune - ATLANTA It's the busiest shipping day of the year at UPS today. The world's largest shipping carrier says that on a normal day, its average volume is 15 ) million packages. Today it's 21 million packages, or 240 every second. FedEx says its
Ledger - Dec. 18 f.o.b. shipping point and f.o.b. delivered, 40-lb. cartons, Beauregard types, U.S. No 1 cured 15-16. GRAIN: Dec. 18 cash soybean prices paid to farmers by Louisiana country grain elevators by area: northeast delta 6.20-6.27; central delta 6.20
