Royal Mail shares have hit their lowest since the company went private, following a warning that annual profits would be lower than expected. Shares fell 18% on Monday and another 8% on Tuesday, and the company lost around &...

Royal Mail has purchased parcel delivery company Dicom Canada for C$360 million, through its General Logistics Systems (GLS) brand. GLS, which was created in 2013 after Royal Mail went private, has made various investments i...

Global parcel shipping hit $279 billion in revenue last year, according to the Pitney Bowes Parcel Shipping Index. Parcel volume grew 17% year-on-year, from 63.6 billion in 2016 to 74.4 billion—an average of 22 parcels...

Ofcom, the UK’s communications watchdog, has launched an investigation into the business parcel delivery sector over concerns about competition. The investigation follows a fine of £50 million levied on Royal Mai...

Royal Mail is to change its mail redirection policy which charges per surname, following criticism from Citizens Advice that the policy penalises unmarried couples or spouses who keep their own names. Currently customers pay...

UK communications regulator Ofcom has fined Royal Mail a record £50 million for breaching competition law. According to Ofcom, Royal Mail discriminated against wholesale customers such as Whistl by seeking to increase ...

Japanese e-commerce company Rakuten, one of the world’s largest, is launching a number of initiatives to fulfil its vision of “One Delivery” end-to-end logistics. Through its “One Delivery” sche...

Royal Mail has predicted, as part of its year-end 2017/8 financial report, that the EU's new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will negatively impact letter volumes. According to the report, a general decline in lett...

The Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) in the US has allowed ten new commercial drone projects to go ahead in US airspace. Companies who have been given permission to proceed with drone projects include Apple, Microsoft, Uber,...

The Committees of Advertising Practice (CAP), which is part of the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), has issued a new enforcement notice to stop retailers from making misleading UK parcel delivery claims. Companies will...

Uber is closing down UberRUSH, its on-demand parcel delivery service for merchants. The service will end on June 30th 2018. The courier service provided deliveries on request for items of less than 30 pounds, except for dang...

Consulting firm Apex Insight reports that the global market for parcel delivery was worth US$350 billion in 2017. This is up from $310 billion in 2016. Of this, the Asia Pacific region accounts for around 40%, while North Am...

A new startup in Atlanta, Georgia, thinks it has found a solution to the problem of too many delivery vehicles: using the spare backseats of commuters’ cars. The company is called Roadie. Using their mobile app, anyone...

City councils and courier companies have both been grappling with congestion problems caused by the sheer number of delivery vehicles. The rise of e-commerce means that parcel volumes are on track to increase 17-28% every ye...

Companies including John Lewis, HSBC and JP Morgan have banned their employees from having their Christmas gifts delivered to the office. While many working people are attempting to have their parcels delivered to their plac...

Are you a business owner who needs to get your goods to international customers on time? Or are you sending a gift or care package to a loved one? Either way, you now have a lot of choice when it comes to parcel delivery, and...

Customers were unable to login to Australia Post’s online eParcel service on Monday, for reasons not yet disclosed by the company but described simply as “technical difficulties”. The downtime meant that cu...

According to financial firm Morgan Stanley, SpaceX, the rocket and spacecraft manufacturing company owned by Elon Musk, could change the way parcel delivery works. SpaceX’s Big Falcon Rocket is a planned transportation...

Lawmaker Norman Yee has put forward a bill to ban autonomous delivery robots from the streets and sidewalks of San Francisco. Yee contends that the robots could pose a threat to public safety, stating that, “Our street...

Royal Mail staff have been warned that there may be a 50% jump in parcel volume today due to “take back Tuesday”, the day when customers return their unwanted Christmas presents following the bank holiday weekend....

The Communication Workers Union (CWU) announced earlier this week that thousands of Post Office workers will be striking over Christmas Week, starting Monday 19th December and including Christmas Eve. According to the union,...

The UK’s HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has reportedly been ordered by Prime Minister Theresa May to investigate employment practises at delivery company Hermes. The news was announced by Frank Field, Labour MP and ch...

Facing possible traffic restrictions during the upcoming 2020 Tokyo Olympics, delivery companies are considering using the Tokyo subway to ensure on-time parcel delivery. This would make it the first subway freight service in...

Swiss Post is teaming up with British company Starship Technologies to trial automated robot parcel delivery. The testing will begin in September in Bern, the Swiss capital, and Solothurn, where the Federal Roads Office has ...