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Border control chaos as France closes its borders to Great Britain
- Date: 22/12/2020 10:56
- Category: Mail & Parcel Delivery
A number of countries in and outside of Europe have imposed transport restrictions on the UK. Freight restrictions between France and Great Britain have now been in force for 48 hours since Sunday night which has led to sign...
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Parcels were key driver of global postal growth in 2019
- Date: 17/07/2020 12:05
- Category: Mail & Parcel Delivery
Parcel deliveries were the key driver of growth in the global postal industry in 2019, according to a report by the International Post Corporation (IPC). Post grew 4.2% globally last year despite a decline in mail volume, ma...
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Ofcom fines Royal Mail £1.5 million for not delivering on time
- Date: 16/07/2020 12:33
- Category: Mail & Parcel Delivery
Ofcom has fined Royal Mail £1.5 million for failing to reach targets for on-time delivery, and an additional £100,000 for overcharging for second class stamps. Ofcom, which regulates the postal industry as well a...
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UPS and UPU release World Environment Day statements
- Date: 05/06/2020 14:25
- Category: Mail & Parcel Delivery
American courier company UPS and the UN's Universal Postal Union have both released statements to mark World Environment Day on June 5th. UPS UPS announced that it would be matching the carbon offsets of all packages shippe...
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Home and garden items are the most popular lockdown deliveries
- Date: 28/05/2020 13:36
- Category: Mail & Parcel Delivery
Home décor, gardening items and DIY equipment have been the most popular products for home delivery during the lockdown, according to a survey by Royal Mail. 41% of survey respondents had received home or garden items...
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Fact check: can coronavirus survive on the surface of packages?
- Date: 12/03/2020 11:38
- Category: Mail & Parcel Delivery
Fact-checking website, Full Fact, has investigated the claim that the new coronavirus can live on surfaces for up to 28 days, including on international mail. The verdict? There is no evidence to support this claim. Advice f...
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Egypt Post develops new postcode system to improve mail efficiency
- Date: 10/03/2020 14:16
- Category: Mail & Parcel Delivery
Egypt Post, the country’s postal agency, has finished developing a new postcode system across the country with a 7-digit postcode for each group of buildings. The new system is intended to improve the efficiency of mai...
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International postal exchange resumes between Qatar and its neighbours
- Date: 26/02/2020 10:59
- Category: Mail & Parcel Delivery
International postal exchange has resumed between Qatar and its neighbours, Bahrain, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the UAE, according to the Universal Postal Union (UPU). Postal exchange was suspended in 2017 as part of a diplomat...
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Universal Postal Union “open to dialogue” with private sector
- Date: 17/02/2020 10:05
- Category: Mail & Parcel Delivery
Bishar A. Hussein, the Director General of the Universal Postal Union (UPU), signalled in his opening address at the UPU’s High Level Forum last week that the agency was open to more input from the private sector. Huss...
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New York City charges UPS and FedEx millions in parking fines
- Date: 14/02/2020 11:58
- Category: Mail & Parcel Delivery
New York City levied parking fines on UPS and FedEx totalling millions of dollars in 2019, which the courier companies had to pay as drivers struggle to find the space to stop off and make deliveries. FedEx paid $9.8 million...
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World’s oldest post office looking for new owner
- Date: 11/02/2020 13:55
- Category: Mail & Parcel Delivery
The world’s oldest operational post office is looking for a new owner as its current owners are set to retire. The post office in Sanquhar, Dumfries, first opened 307 years ago in 1712. It faces closure if there is no ...
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China Post disinfects all mail to Wuhan amidst coronavirus outbreak
- Date: 30/01/2020 09:51
- Category: Mail & Parcel Delivery
China Post has been instructed by the Chinese government to disinfect all mail delivered to, or in transit via, Wuhan, the site of the coronavirus outbreak. For packages delivered to Hubei Province (postcodes 430000-449999),...
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Post-Christmas returns expected to increase 72% for “Takeback Thursday”
- Date: 03/01/2020 13:29
- Category: Mail & Parcel Delivery
According to Royal Mail, returns of online goods on 2nd January, dubbed “Takeback Thursday”, were predicted to rise by 72% when compared to the average daily number of returns in December. For postal workers, thi...
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Australia Post suspends services across Canberra and ACT
- Date: 03/01/2020 10:18
- Category: Mail & Parcel Delivery
Australia Post has suspended mail services across Canberra and the rest of the Australian Capital Territory due to hazardous air quality. According to local health authorities, the air quality peaked more than 20 times hazar...
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Emission-free cargo bikes used for deliveries in London’s Ultra Low Emission Zone
- Date: 12/12/2019 10:50
- Category: Mail & Parcel Delivery
40 local businesses have transitioned to using emission-free cargo bikes in the London Bridge area, under the Bikes for Business scheme by Team London Bridge. Small local businesses, charities, hospitals such as Great Ormand...
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Royal Mail share price tumbles after plans fall behind schedule
- Date: 25/11/2019 11:41
- Category: Mail & Parcel Delivery
Royal Mail’s share price tumbled 14% last Thursday, after the company released its half-year results and warned that it could operate at a loss next year. The drop took around £320 million off Royal Mail’s s...
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Royal Mail seeks High Court injunction to halt Christmas postal strike
- Date: 08/11/2019 11:18
- Category: Mail & Parcel Delivery
Royal Mail is seeking a High Court injunction against a planned peak season postal strike, on the basis that the strike ballot was “unlawful and, therefore, null and void”. Members of the Communication Workers Un...
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Delta first US passenger airline to offer door-to-door courier service
- Date: 30/10/2019 15:51
- Category: Mail & Parcel Delivery
Delta Air Lines has become the first US passenger airline to offer door-to-door parcel delivery after teaming up with parcel company Roadie. The DASH Door-to-Door service will offer same-day delivery for time-sensitive goods...
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Australia Post adds 182 electric delivery vehicles to peak season fleet
- Date: 22/10/2019 11:21
- Category: Mail & Parcel Delivery
The government-owned Australia Post has added 182 new electric delivery vehicles (EDVs) to its Queensland fleet, to assist with peak season volumes. The three-wheeled vehicles can carry more than a hundred small parcels and ...
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Royal Mail and Parcelforce workers vote in favour of Christmas strikes
- Date: 17/10/2019 14:48
- Category: Mail & Parcel Delivery
Royal Mail and Parcelforce workers who are members of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) have voted overwhelmingly in favour of strike action during peak season. Of a turnout of 75.9%, 97.1% of Royal Mail workers at the u...
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Germany approves draft law to protect parcel delivery drivers
- Date: 19/09/2019 15:08
- Category: Mail & Parcel Delivery
Logistics companies that outsource deliveries to third-party subcontractors would be forced to ensure that subcontractors’ drivers are paid social security contributions, in a new law drafted by the German government. ...
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Cargo bikes growing in popularity in Germany
- Date: 27/08/2019 12:53
- Category: Mail & Parcel Delivery
Cargo bikes are becoming fashionable in parts of Germany, according to a report by The Guardian. The bikes, which are used by parcel delivery companies for light deliveries, are also experiencing a boom in use by private cit...
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NFSP calls on government to save UK post office network
- Date: 20/05/2019 09:47
- Category: Mail & Parcel Delivery
The National Federation of SubPostmasters (NSFP)—a trade association representing mainly independent businesspeople operating Post Office branches across the UK—has called for government intervention as the Post O...
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Swiss Post suspends medical deliveries by drone after crash
- Date: 14/05/2019 11:15
- Category: Mail & Parcel Delivery
Swiss Post has suspended its drone medical deliveries programme after a drone crashed in Zurich last week. This is the second time the postal service has suspended the scheme. The device in question crashed in a forest on it...