Newegg Names Kunal Thakkar VP-operations

| MCM staff

Direct electronics merchant Newegg has named Kunal Thakkar vice president of operations. Thakkar will be responsible for overseeing all of Newegg’s logistics and transportation functions, including managing the company’s warehouse operations and transportation service providers.

UPS Resolves Internal Technical Problems

| MCM staff

UPS has resolved technical issues stemming from a system glitch on Wednesday that caused problems with some shipping applications that customers use to input and track systems.

Publisher’s Note: Envelope Pushing

| Mike O'Brien

Customer expectations and tough times have forced us to create solutions that leap over previous boundaries, limits, capacities, goals and capabilities. A thought that I

EquaShip Suspends Operations for at Least Nine Months

| Jim Tierney

EquaShip, which began making delivers in November, announced Monday it has suspended all operations for nine months to one year while the fledgling company re-engineers its transportation network for faster package delivery times, larger geographic coverage, and more service options.