Metro Delivery Joins the Detroit Regional Chamber

Here’s another affiliation we’re excited about: we’re now Detroit Regional Chamber  Members. It’s about time, after 28 years of driving all over the Metro Detroit Area.

We’re looking forward to the networking, educational and social events- and the commanding view from their offices on the 19th floor of One Woodward, within easy walking distance of Lafayette Coney Island.

Metro Reuse Project: the Jr. Workbench,for Hammering, etc.

Reclaimed pallet wood,  reclaimed screws, 2 giant reused bolts (found in the street).

Metro Reuse Project: the Decommissioned License-Plate Birdhouse

Pallet wood, sticks, license plates, 8 screws and paint…

Metro Reuse Project: The Employee Suggestion Box

Made of pallet scraps, reclaimed screws, and parts of old dismantled office cubicles.

Metro Represents at the Messenger and Courier Association of America’s 2012 Conference

The MCAA’s mission is to promote and advance the common interests of those engaged in the delivery and logistics industry worldwide through education and advocacy. That’s what it says on their website, but it’s really more entertaining than that.

This year, Metro Delivery Operations and Business Development Managers went for Education and Networking with the MCAA at the fabulous Westin Diplomat in Sunny Hollywood, Florida.

This location gave us a wide range of acceptable attire, from Tropical to Business Casual, as modeled here:

Now, it is true that the place features palm trees and Jacuzzis, but we’re really focused on business, honest. That’s what we keep reminding our coworkers who imagine us lounging on the beach drinking from coconuts.

We had informational sessions on Home Delivery, Using Metrics to Achieve Results, the Supply Chain in 2012 and Beyond, a panel on How the Industry has Evolved in the Last 25 Years, and lively roundtable Focus Groups on Marketing and Technology. We networked ferociously with hundreds of other regional and national couriers, and with vendor representatives from companies focused on our industry.

We attended a speech by Congressman Erik Paulsen, an advocate in Washington for Independent Contractor Legislative Reform.

(If you’re wondering, no, Metro doesn’t use Independent Contractors; we have 100% Employees, so that’s not our business model, but a lot of our friends in the industry do use IC’s, or a combination of IC’s and employees, so the subject concerns us.)

We learned a ton! We made IMPORTANT BUSINESS CONNECTIONS! Me met interesting people from around all around the World, and talked to them for hours about things that would bore the socks off our social dinner guests.

And then we went to lounge on the beach and drink from a coconut.