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EASTERN CONNECTION About Our Company Eastern Connection, currently celebrating our 25th Anniversary, is the largest Regional Express Ground Service and Priority Overnight provider on the East Coast. We offer a lower price than FedEx/UPS with superior service and overall value. We deliver hundreds of thousands of packages weekly, both B2C and residential. Products and Services: • Ground Delivery (next day by 5:00PM) • Next Day Afternoon (by 2:00PM) • Trucking • Same Day Delivery • • • EASTERN CONNECTION JIM BERLUTI, JACK MITCHELL & TED KAUFMAN President, Vice President & Chairman Jack Mitchell is Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Eastern Connection. In two years, Jack, along with others, helped develop and implement a Next Day Ground Parcel Delivery Service to compete head on with UPS/FedEx. The product is growing at a rate of 25% annually due to a lower cost and service that ensures delivery a day earlier within our footprint than competitors. Jack’s background includes consultation and 25 years of industry experience at executive levels with both FedEx and DHL. Jim Berluti is the President & CEO of Eastern Connection, while Ted Kaufman serve as Chairman. Jim and Ted are the co-founders of Eastern Connection and have been featured speakers and widely published within the parcel industry in addition to being actively involved in many civic and professional organizations. Priority Overnight (by 10:30AM) Logistics & Warehousing Expedited Mail Eastern Connection provides delivery solutions for all industries. A few of our current customers include: Avon, Estée Lauder, Dealer Tire, Henry Schein, Random House, G.E., Stop & Shop, City Sports, Byram Medical, Northeast Lens, Olympus, Legal Sea Foods, Macy’s, Turner Construction, Boise, State Street Bank. Technology Features: • MC70 Symbol Scanners enabling real-time capture of signatures and images of delivery. • Online tracking capabilities allowing customers to track their packages from pick-up through delivery. • Shipping Integration and Label Processing Automation selections include our proprietary Partnership System, EC-Ship (Web-based system), Pitney Bowes or Kewill Operational Features: • Unique all-ground, “spoke & hub” network is centered around our main sort in Newark, NJ, to ensure customers next-day delivery. • Stations throughout the Northeast: Hartford, New Haven & Stamford, CT; Washington DC; Boston, Woburn & Worcester, MA; Baltimore, MD; Portland, ME; Manchester, NH; Newark, NJ; Albany, NYC, Rochester & Syracuse, NY; Lancaster, Philadelphia & Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, PA; Providence, RI Why Choose Us • We are the only Ground Service Parcel Company that can deliver from Maine to Virginia in ONE DAY. • We’re 15% to 25% less expensive and have fewer accessorial charges than the national carriers. • We ensure shipment integrity, delivering multiple-piece shipments at the same time, to the same consignee. Find out why so many of the biggest shippers are coming over to Eastern Connection. Contact us at EC-Sales@EasternConnection.com or visit our website at www.EasternConnection.com. WHO’S WHO 2008 EASTERN CONNECTION 60 Olympia Ave Woburn MA 01801 800-877-4745 www.EasternConnection.com EC-Sales@easternconnection.com 30 Who’s Who 2008 www.PARCELindustry.com http://www.EasternConnection.com http://www.EasternConnection.com http://www.EasternConnection.com http://www.PARCELindustry.com

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Parcel - July 2008 Contents Editor's Note What Would Augello Say? Arriving in One Piece Women in Logistics & Delivery Services Turning U-Turns into No Returns On the Mark New Products and Services Advertiser Index Wrap Up AFMS Best Way Technologies Blue Water Consolidators Cass Information Systems Distribution Management Group, Inc. Eastern Connection Endicia enVista Zsolt Design Engineering Genco Green Mountain Consulting Hasler Intravex NPI Parascript Precision Software Scancode Systems Inc. Vitronic

Parcel - July 2008

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