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Description:	Canada's largest courier company
Corporate tagline:	Where business is going
Corporate head office:	5995 Avebury Rd. Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
Ownership:	Canada Post Corporation (91%), Barry Lapointe Holdings Ltd. (7%) Other (2%)
President and C.E.O.:	Robert C. Johnson
2008 revenue:	$1.5 billion
Employees:	More than 12,500, of which more than 3,500 are couriers.
Facilities:	123 operations locations 20 regional sales offices 147 Shipping Centres 550+ Authorized Shipping Agents 350+ drop boxes 2 Customer Contact Centres
Call volume:	Customer Contact Centre professionals respond to more than 35,000 - 40,000 calls daily
Vehicles/aircraft:	3,143 courier vehicles 117 medium trucks 999 highway trailers 411 tractors 15 dedicated chartered aircraft 686 aircraft support equipment
Average number of pieces handled:	Daily: 1.1 million pieces (delivery and pick up) Weekly: 5.5 million pieces (delivery and pick up) Monthly: 22 million pieces (delivery and pick up) Annually: 275 million pieces (delivery and pick up) 70 per cent of the pieces handled are manufactured goods and 30 per cent are documents
Air freight volume:	Purolator moves 400,000 pounds of air freight each night, and 100 million pounds of air freight each year
International delivery:	Delivery to more than 35,000 destinations in the United States and more than 220 countries worldwide
	Updated December 13, 2006

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