U.S. postal service mail volume, fell to 168 billion pieces in 2011 from the record 213 billion in 2006.
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Now they are exploiting computers and the Internet to improve service and boost volume, especially for used cars.
The UKBA split would create "a high-volume service that makes high-quality decisions about who comes here" and an organisation that has "law enforcement at its heart".
Since volume in the service department is low on Wednesdays, it'll offer a half-price oil change if you bring the car in then.
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There's also concern over a proposal to privatize Ohio's prison food service and potentially cut back the volume or quality of meals.
And there comes a point where, as with any outsourced service or good, your own volume means that it might be better to start producing that in-house.
As mail volume increased, the Postal Service asked charitable organizations and corporations to help them meet the need.
Maersk's Triple Es will be going into service at a time when growth in the volume of goods to be shipped is comparatively low - some experts don't expect it to pick up until 2015.
What can you do, spending as little money as humanly possible, to gather a persuasive body of evidence that the customers will really buy your product or service at a good enough price, in enough volume to make your idea worth executing?
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"The closer in you get, there certainly is more call volume into the airlines and into our customer service agents, so the sooner you can try to get rebooked, the better, " she said.
They want to make sure the product or service pitched to them will be available quickly and at the volume required.
Consumers flocked to HDTV because of falling set prices and the massive volume of HD content available from pay-TV service providers like Comcast and Time Warner Cable.
The Aberdeen Group argues that telecommunications costs, in particular, can expand with BYOD because companies lose the traditional volume discounts they got when they purchased both devices and service from a single provider.
And Mega needs to be seen as a respectable service in the eyes of the consumer to gain the market share and volume it expects and needs so it can grow.
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The San Francisco startup expects the new service will increase the number of people who can accept payments and therefore boost volume of payments across the web.
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While the overall 3G subsidy expense grew by almost 13% due to the sheer volume of handset sales, it decreased as a percentage of 3G service revenues from about 15.6% in Q1 2012 to 11.6% last quarter.
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According to Economatica, an equity analysis service covering companies across Latin America, the Bovespa hit the second-highest trading volume in its history this October.
In the National Health Service, the government has resisted the Old Labour approach of caring only about the volume of spending rather than its efficiency.
As hospitals and healthcare systems continue to live in the fee for service world, they must prepare for the transition to a world in which they are rewarded for value, not volume.
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As Netflix acknowledged with its announcement on digital distribution, a dedicated device is but one -- and should be among the lowest volume -- of a wide range of devices on which the company's "Watch Instantly" service is available, including some Blu-ray players, the Xbox 360, PCs and Macs, and in theory any device that supports Microsoft's Silverlight technology.
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