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...

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...

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 ...

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),...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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. ...

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...

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...

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...

Australia’s aviation authority has given Google the go-ahead to launch the world’s first commercial drone home delivery service. Wing—a subsidiary of Google’s parent company, Alphabet, which was creat...

The International Post Corporation—a co-operative association of 24 national postal services—has reported that over half of all priority and first-class letter mail within Europe was delivered within two days. 78...

Online retail giant Alibaba has purchased a 14% stake in Chinese courier STO Express, marking its fourth big investment in delivery firms. According to STO Express, its controlling shareholder will set up a new subsidiary ow...

Online retailing behemoths JD.com of China and Rakuten of Japan have made a deal to combine their resources for unmanned parcel delivery operations. JD.com’s expertise in drones and delivery robots will be used as part...

Shares in Royal Mail have dropped after the company announced a larger-than-expected decline in letter volumes. The stock price fell about 11%, after slumping as much as 18%. “Due to our letter performance to date, we...

Spain’s national postal service, Correos, delivered more than 106 million parcels in 2018, a 61% rise from its 2017 figures. 10.5 million of these parcel deliveries were made in November and 13.2 million in December, a...

Royal Mail closures have led to growing queues at delivery depots, according to The Guardian. Over 50 delivery offices have been closed since the company went private in 2013. One recent closure, of a depot in East Dulwich, ...

Online retailers who offer more delivery options are rewarded with greater customer loyalty, according to the 2018 State of eCommerce Delivery Consumer Research Report, a survey by MetaPack. Almost 3,600 consumers in the US,...