If you’re out at Macworld 2009, stop by the FileMaker Developer Pavillion, booth 1125. Here you can see our latest UPS Ready offering for Mac OS X. NRG is the leading provider of Mac and FileMaker Pro compatible shipping tools. (That’s Andy with Doug Nelson, our alliance manager from UPS)
Wow, 2010 is just around the corner! For the third year, NRG will be attending MacWorld 2009 next week in San Francisco. Stop by the FileMaker Pavilion developer, booth 1125, to see our latest UPS Ready offerings for Mac OS X. NRG is the only solution provider to offer FileMaker compatible shipping solutions for all carriers.
Pulling into the parking lot, I noticed a unmarked (white) DHL truck behind me. It pulled up to the building, two guys jumped out and quickly threw the drop box into the back. It sure seems that they are fast-tracking the halt of domestic services. If you’re relying on DHL for your shipments, you may want to check out the UPS Switch and Save program.
DHL drop box being carried off
As expected, DHL announced today that it’s going to focus on international shipments for US-based origins. Domestic services will end Jan 30, 2009. International shipping stays as-is. Operating costs are reduced by over 80%.
A recent article in Mailing Systems Technology states that “Approximately 24% of the nearly 200 billion pieces of mail the Postal Service handles each year have address inaccuracies. These address inaccuracies can mean non-delivery, slowed delivery, returned mail and mail delivered to the wrong address. A significant amount of Standard mail never arrives at all! Not only are postage, printing and processing wasted, the opportunity to sell a product or contact a customer is missed.”
NRG’s Address Validation solution helps to ease addressing woes by allowing you to validate address data at time of entry.
Our friends over at Buyolympia have this really cool Create Your Own Robot set. Every kid should get one of these this Christmas. I want two.
It also reminded me that it’s FIRST Lego League time again. FLL is a stellar program that gets middle school kids excited about science and technology by building autonomous Lego robots which need to complete a complex challenge in a short period of time.
UPS announced today that UPS Ground rates will increase an average of 5.9%. UPS Air and International will see an average net 4.9% increase. You’ll be able to preview the new rates tomorrow at http://ups.com/rates. These rates take effect January 5, 2009.
Offset these rate increases by becoming more efficient in your shipping department. NRGShip products are built so you can process your orders seamlessly in a Mac environment.
UPS® has selected NRG Software to participate in the initial rollout of Account Based Rates (ABR/Negotiated Rates) as part of the UPS® Ready program.
The v1.2 release provides the ability to display account specific negotiated rates prior to shipment. Customer benefits include improved speed and accuracy of the accounting process:
For more information, download Negotiated Rates Brochure, call 262-432-0934, or email sales@nrgsoft.com.
FileMaker Pro developer Ken d’Orionzio from Paradise Partners was recently featured alongside NRGShip customer The Fest on the FileMaker, Inc. website for their use of NRGShip UPS in creating a seamless order processing workflow.