Hello. Welcome to todays,. Im ross westgate. And im kelly evans. Asias main market shut for the Chinese New Year and large parts of the u. S. Struggling with extreme weather. Digging out from nemo, residents and u. S. Businesses hope to resume to normal business after Mother Nature dumped nearly three feet of snow in some areas. And ben afflecks iran hostage drama argo picks up the best film accolade. Daniel daylewis wins best actor. Were up for another week. We might do what they did and share the love around. I read the reports. Were going to talk about it later. There was no one dominant film. I thought it was interesting that argo won best picture . It was a great movie, but best movie . Really . Is that the lincoln only got sometimes theyre quite clued up. The nominations were very similar. Do you think lincoln would do better than it did. Daniel daylewis picked up an award. Help recap for those of us who didnt catch the whole thing or any of it, frankly, but yeah, britains big fi
Hurry and get on with Business People from countries are teaming up to explore opportunities in what some consider southeast asias last Business Year ukrainian interim president aleksandr church an upset as the countrys armed forces have launched what he calls anti operations against pro russian militants. Mass the troops have begun efforts to remove the militants the government he told the us in the Donetsk Region market that is the stuff he says the operations will be conducted responsibly church enough says the goal is to defend ukrainian citizens and stop attempts to tear the country apart. Russian protesters still like to buy local government buildings in donetsk scandal times. Their talent for greater local autonomy and militants continued to occupy buildings used by police and security authorities in sligo scanned other parts of Eastern Ukraine. They defied a deadline set by the interim government of ninety p m monday local time for their surrender. There are no signs of ukraini
Expect ecommerce will drive Consumer Habits in that direction for the foreseeable future. Reporter fedex and u. P. S. Compete with the Postal Service, but they are also suppliers and customers that rely on mail carriers to deliver some packages. Analysts say the Postal Service would have to run into far more trouble, for fedex and u. P. S. To see a big financial boost. We dont think either u. P. S. Or fedex is interested in carrying first class mail, well i should say theyre not interested in carrying it for 5o cents a package. Theyll carry it at their normal ground and express rates and theyll deliver it on a timely manner, but to deliver something for 50 cents, thats just not in the profit mandate for these companies. Reporter congress will have the last word on saturday delivery. One in ten Americans Still have no Internet Access at home. Thats a large group of voters with a good reason to press lawmakers to keep the mail coming on the weekend. Darren gersh, n. B. R. , washington. T
Expect ecommerce will drive Consumer Habits in that direction for the foreseeable future. Reporter fedex and u. P. S. Compete with the Postal Service, but they are also suppliers and customers that rely on mail carriers to deliver some packages. Analysts say the Postal Service would have to run into far more trouble, for fedex and u. P. S. To see a big financial boost. We dont think either u. P. S. Or fedex is interested in carrying first class mail, well i should say theyre not interested in carrying it for 5o cents a package. Theyll carry it at their normal ground and express rates and theyll deliver it on a timely manner, but to deliver something for 50 cents, thats just not in the profit mandate for these companies. Reporter congress will have the last word on saturday delivery. One in ten Americans Still have no Internet Access at home. Thats a large group of voters with a good reason to press lawmakers to keep the mail coming on the weekend. Darren gersh, n. B. R. , washington. T
Week schedule will save 2 billion. The post office has been losing about 20 million a day, as e mail useage ramps up and mail volume plunges. Congress has required the post office to deliver six days a week, but the postmaster general believes there is a loophole in the law that will allow him to make the change. Darren gersh reports on the business fallout. Reporter first class mail is the Postal Services most profitable product. It is also a business that is disappearing at the rate of 5 a year. People pay their bills online. Its simple, its easy, its free. You cannot beat free. Reporter and the Postal Service is tired of trying to beat free. So it plans to eliminate saturday home mail delivery beginning on august 5. The move will cost 22,000 workers their jobs and may save 2 billion a year. But even that, will not be enough. More dramatic cuts will be needed. You cant support a system built for 200 or even 300 billion pieces, now we got 150 billion, which is still a boat load of mai