Furloughs for L.L. Bean Call Center Workers

| Jim Tierney

Outdoor gear and apparel merchant L.L. Bean will furlough about 75% of its staff – all but 50 of its 200 workers – at the Bangor, ME-based call center starting in May, according to the Kennebec (ME) Journal/Morning Sentinel.

FedEx SmartPost Heads to Canada

| MCM staff

Considering selling to the Canadian market? FedEx SmartPost announced last week that it has expanded its service into Canada for U.S. shippers via the residential delivery capabilities of Canada Post Corp.

An Operations Rebel with a Cause

| Jeff Morris

If you’re going to give advice on breaking the rules of fulfillment, it helps to be intimately familiar with those rules to be one of the people who helped