The American Messenger Company out of Seattle, Washington was founded by a young man, 19 years of age, named James E. Casey. The American Messenger Company had a basement office where they would respond to phone calls and carry notes, packages, run errands, and take food from restaurants to customers. In 1907, when the American Messenger Company was established, there were very few cars and the messengers delivered by foot and bicycles. James Casey merged with his competitor Evert McCabe, bought a Model T car for the company, and changed the company’s name to Merchants Parcel Delivery. The business followed suit with the name change and the formerly American Messenger Company was now a package delivery company. Just 12 years after the establishment, the Merchants Parcel Delivery expanded to Oakland, California and once again changed their name to the United Parcel Service.
UPS was the first package delivery company that used air operations for transport. In 1929, UPS would use privately operated airlines to deliver their parcels from one city to another. However, there were n...
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The cost of shipping by rail was one-tenth of that at only $0.015/ton. At this rate farmers made money and could ship all the way to Minneapolis, where the value was up to $1.50/bushel. In 1893, the Soo Line began building a railroad across the hinterlands of Wisconsin and Minnesota so they could ship grain and l...
The Pony Express connected the east and west coast together. Before this mail system no one could connect with people from other states fastly. Back then they didn’t have phones they could just pick up ...
They formed the firm Currier & McKay and built the Courier. This was McKay’s first real production as designer and builder of a ship. The Courier was built for the coffee trade between New York and Rio de Janeiro and was sold to Andrew Foster & Son.5 Their firm soon dissolved and McKay then become connected with William Pickett and formed the firm of McKay & Pickett. Under this name they built the New York packet ship St. George. This was the first of the Red Cross Line.
By 1857 a concord coach was able to complete the fifty-mile run from Portland to Salem in a single day (Schwantes, 183). California Stage Company was one of the largest organizations of its kind in the United States, established direct and regular service between Portland and Sacramento in 1860 (Schwantes, 183). Wells, Fargo and Company of San Francisco utilized a far-flung network of stagecoach and freight lines in the 1860s and 1870s to serve mining regions in the interior Northwest (Schwantes, 183). Ben Holladay, the stagecoach king, laid the foundation for his transportation empire in 1862 when he gained control of stagecoach and freight wagon lines that extended from Salt Lake City to the booming mining camps and supply center of Boise City, Walla Walla, and Virginia City, Montana. Holladay sold h...
Reducing unit costs and increasing the volume of units. By changing the airplane fleet to have bigger planes they increased the volume of seats by 70%.
Before 1860 it was virtually impossible to get a letter or other form of correspondence from St. Joseph Missouri to Sacramento California in less than 20 days. 20 days seemed entirely too long for the west coast merchants and bankers to wait for documents from the east. So three men, William Russell, Alexander Majors and William Waddell created the Pony Express. The Pony Express ensured fast and safe delivery of the mail.
United Airlines is one of the largest airlines in the United States and worldwide. Also, it is ranked as the oldest commercial airline that was founded by Walter Varney. United Airlines started as an Air Mail Service and then extended its services to be an Air Carrier. In 1927, William Boeing started his own airline, Boeing Air Transport, and started buying any other air mail companies, which included the Varney’s Air Mail Company. After a while, Boeing started manufacturing aircraft and parts, which allowed him to extend his company to a bigger organization. Also, within Boeing’s company, he bought several airports to expand his organization. In 1929, Boeing’s company has changed its name to be United Aircraft and Transport Corp. (UATC).
A switch from premium overnight services to lower – margin deferred services and ground delivery services is an advantage to Airborne Express. With existing assets including trucks, tracking systems, regional hubs and sorting facilities, they only need minor initial investments to develop fully these kinds of services. They should use these assets wisely and effectively.
By exposing readers to a world where workers are underpaid and mistreated, corruption is heavy, and factories control a whole neighborhood, Sinclair shocks readers and explains that the Packington factories “[were] really not a number of firms at all, but one great firm, the Beef Trust” (Sinclair 112). Similar to how the airlines shared information to upcharge passenger tickets and control the airport, Sinclair writes that “every week the managers of [The Beef Trust] got together and compared notes” (Sinclair 112). Stating that these meetings were not to help the workers or consumers, because they judged the effectiveness of workers there and “fixed the price they would pay for beef…..and all the dressed meat in the country” (Sinclair 112). Sinclair also tells readers that the mergers and cooperation not only hurts workers and consumers but also smaller companies. For example, the airlines that grow and try to “bully foreign carriers” (Thomaselli) can be compared to the man who tried to “gather this filth in scows, to make lard out of it” (Sinclair 97) in Bubbly Creek but was stopped when “the packers took the cue, and got an injunction to stop him, and afterwards gathered it themselves” (Sinclair 97). Even though large airlines and smaller airlines both try to cheat to have a winning hand, the monopolies end up on top and can have a more widespread hold on the nation’s travelers and have “80 percent of the nation’s air traffic to be concentrated among four airlines”
When our country was at war, the military identified the need for trucks. Trucks were very important because it was difficult to find away to transport all the supplies, troops, and food. After WW1, this brought an increase in good roads plus an expanding economy. This helped grow the trucking industry. The 1920’s were the years of innovation. The balloon tires were introduced along with the rail road’s that were established “piggy-back” service. The first mechanically refrigerated van was introduced. In 1925, there were 500,000 miles of hard surface roads in the U.S. In 1926, a fully loaded 2 ton truck was driven from New York to San Francisco in five days.
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UPS was founded in 1907 as a messenger company in the United States and now
Federal Express is an express transportation company, founded in 1973 by Frederick W. Smith. During his college years, he recognized that the United States was becoming a service-oriented economy and needed a reliable, overnight delivery service company. In 1965, as a undergraduate at Yale University, Smith wrote a term paper about the passenger route systems used by most airfreight shippers, which he viewed as economically inadequate. He wrote of the need for shippers to have a system designed specifically for airfreight that could accommodate time-sensitive shipments such as medicines, computer parts and electronics.
Private persons, big and small businesses at a point would have to either send or receive parcels, shipment, among other things. This cannot be done without the help of cargo companies, which are highly involved in the process of transportation of goods and services from one point to the other, but in short and long distances. And the demand to have this parcel and shipment delivered in a faster and more secured way , has brought about a high competition among several companies in the world , and they all have adopted both similar and also different measures to tackle the issues they deal with in the delivering order and tracking issues.