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Last fall, GSA announced a requirement for copies of all transportation invoices to be submitted to PayPort Express, a third-party payment system utilizing the Syncada platform. They subsequently removed the requirement for household goods invoices, but stated that they planned to re-introduce it with the supplemental filing this spring. However, at the recent AMSA …conference, GSA personnel announced that they had decided not to implement this requirement for household goods in the upcoming supplemental filing.
While we generally are

During the recent AMSA …Conference, GSA Audit personnel stated they have begun issuing offsets in the US Bank Payment system for uncollected Notices of Overcharges. They are currently withholding money to satisfy overcharges that were issued in the June 2009-December 2009 time frame. By statute, GSA has three years after the date of the last invoice to recover money from a TSP.
GSA is using the eBill process in US Bank’s payment system to collect this money. Once a negative

Note: This is an article originally published in the National Forwarding’s “Moving Forward” Winter 2012 Newsletter. Since it does an excellent job of explaining the true results of the customer satisfaction survey, we asked permission to reprint it here. Thanks to the entire National team for their willingness to share their insights with the industry.
Industry Average Customer Satisfaction Scores Effective January 2012:
Domestic – 77.08; International – 77.57; Int’l Baggage – 82.93…
Customer satisfaction is the principle goal of

Note: This article is part of a series on changes to the 2012 400NG and International Tender. (To view the entire series of articles, click here.) Please note that these articles are not intended to cover every change made, so TSPs still need to read the tariffs prior to filing rates. Also, these posts are based on our own interpretation of the tariffs, and we cannot guarantee that our interpretation will always be shared by SDDC, the PPSOs, or …

The Daycos February Monthly Newsletter has been sent out, and can be viewed here.  A few of the topics in this month’s newsletter include:

• Late Tariff Changes Cause Rate Filing Delay
• Daycos is Rolling Out a New Billing Service
• The Launch of NTS Phase I is Delayed Again

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…For many years, rates were always based on the actual pickup date of the shipments. Over the past few years, SDDC has increasingly moved from rates based on actual pickup dates towards basing all charges on the originally requested pickup date. One charge that has not made this transition is the fuel surcharge (FSC). It is still based on the actual pickup date, because its application is not governed by the tariffs that SDDC publishes annually. Instead, it is driven

Note: This article is part of a series on changes to the 2012 400NG and International Tender. (To view the entire series of articles, click here.) Please note that these articles are not intended to cover every change made, so TSPs still need to read the tariffs prior to filing rates. Also, these posts are based on our own interpretation of the tariffs, and we cannot guarantee that our interpretation will always be shared by SDDC, the PPSOs, or …

Note: This article is part of a series on changes to the 2012 400NG and International Tender. (To view the entire series of articles, click here.) Please note that these articles are not intended to cover every change made, so TSPs still need to read the tariffs prior to filing rates. Also, these posts are based on our own interpretation of the tariffs, and we cannot guarantee that our interpretation will always be shared by SDDC, the PPSOs, or …

The price of fuel was $3.86 per gallon as reported on Monday, February 6, 2012 making the upcoming FSC rates for the period 2/15/12 through 3/14/12 as follows:

GBL Domestic HHG / International HHG & UB – 14%
GSA Domestic HHG – $1.35
GSA International HHG and BAG – $1.35…

Note: This article is part of a series on changes to the 2012 400NG and International Tender. (To view the entire series of articles, click here.) Please note that these articles are not intended to cover every change made, so TSPs still need to read the tariffs prior to filing rates. Also, these posts are based on our own interpretation of the tariffs, and we cannot guarantee that our interpretation will always be shared by SDDC, the PPSOs, or …