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Service news & information
Basic info and tips: Manifests; Labels; Pickup and delivery; Monthly statistics
Shipping procedures
Packaging tips & guidelines
Monthly Shipping Statistics

Courier Service presentation (overview of membership program, service area, shipping guidelines, etc.)

Reporting problems. Information about missed delivery, lost or damaged items, and other service concerns. Missed pickup/delivery: Contact Consolidated Routing right away. Remember to notify Alliance office as well.

Member Survey , Spring 2004
RFP Spring 2005 Request for proposals for courier service beginning July 2005.

Mailing labels Each dropsite prints labels using the automated label-maker for all dropsites. Examples of mailing labels and box with tabs
Dropsites that serve a group of participating libraries: be sure to provide labels for those libraries, too. Remember, the dropsite goes in "FROM". If you want to provide additional detail, such as the name of the participatin library, add it below the Dropsite name in FROM.
Libraries

October 2004: serving 242 libraries through 62 dropsites

All participating libraries. Alphabetical listing of all participating libraries, and the Dropsite for labeling a package being sent to that library.

List of dropsites in alphabetical order, with all participating libraries.

Dropsite Addresses, Sort Codes and Schedule

Site contacts at each dropsite

Program & Vendor

The Vendor. The Orbis Cascade Alliance has contracted with Lanter Delivery Systems to provide service in Oregon, Washington and Idaho. Lanter is a large trucking, distribution and warehousing company with headquarters in Madison, Illinois. Lanter also operates library courier service programs in Indiana, Louisiana, Kentucky, Missouri, and to the members of CIC (Committee on Institutional Cooperation -- the academic consortium of the Big Ten universities and the University of Chicago). In the Pacific Northwest, Lanter will use Marquis Messenger/Consolidated Routing for courier service to Oregon, Washington and Idaho drop sites. Marquis/Consolidated operate in many states throughout the U.S., and currently supply library delivery to organizations in Texas, Louisiana, Arizona, etc. through the Amigos group.

Background

Setting up the 
Original Membership Program
and Contract 

Service to 44 dropsites began Nov. 6, 2000.

 New program, July 2000-

New Courier beginning Oct. 7 2002

Sept. 27 update on status of Courier RFP process and selection of Lanter proposal.
Oct.9, 2000 Announcement of new service beginning in November.

For more information about the RFP process and status, see the Courier Service FAQ, and the RFP. 

Setting up a Courier service membership program, 1998-
Announcement of Service; [Email to Courier list, July 17, 1998]
Meeting Agenda, with detailed comments and summary proposals (Meeting Handout)
Stakeholder Meeting 4-21-98 Minutes, List of attendees
Schedule: RFP development, bidding and contract award
RFP: Request for Proposal for Northwest Courier Delivery Service
Price formulas: Three approaches to apportioning courier costs 
Courier Transit Time Study (1997) 

Reports:
Participant meetings at OLA & WLA, Spring 2001
Transit time survey, Dec. 2000
e-mail list Staff at libraries participating in the courier service (drop-sites and forwarding sites) are invited to subscribe to an email listserv. Please send us your name, title, institution, and email address. In the subject line or body of the message, request to be added to the Courier email listserv.

Once subscribed, write to the list at: courier@lists.uoregon.edu
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Contact Orbis Cascade Alliance at orbiscas@uoregon.edu

Last updated Sept. 15, 2003