A former postal worker in Japan is facing charges after around 24,000 undelivered postal items were found at his home in Kanagawa, in the Kanto region. According to local media, the items dated back to 2003. The 61-year-old...

The fictional African country Wakanda, home of the Marvel superhero, Black Panther, has been removed from the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) tariff tracker after it was spotted online yesterday. Wakan...

Two suspected drug traffickers had to call police after they got trapped in a shipping container during a record-breaking heatwave in Antwerp, Belgium. Temperatures exceeded 40 degrees Celsius in the country on Wednesday 24t...

The UK government has been criticised for contracting a company without any ships to charter ferries in the event of a no-deal Brexit. Seaborne Freight was awarded £13.8 million contract to operate freight ferries betw...

Royal Mail has urged people to stop posting empty crisp packets without putting them in envelopes, following a campaign to pressure Walkers into using recyclable materials. A petition hosted by 38 Degrees called for people t...

A Cathay Pacific plane was spotted at Hong Kong International Airport with an unusual feature: a missing letter F. The airline’s name was spelt CATHAY PACIIC along the side of the plane, apparently due to a stencilling...

A UPS driver who leaves silly selfies for customers has gone viral after Reddit user deadleaf_shrimp shared his pictures on the site. In some apartment blocks with mailrooms, a photo snapshot of the label is emailed to the r...

A UPS driver left an unusual note for Marcy Lanier, a resident of Asheville in North Carolina, after a package couldn’t be delivered to her doorstep: “Bear in driveway”, it said. Lanier posted a picture of ...

A UK man’s missing dog was traced to the home of a parcel delivery driver who had just delivered a package of dog food to his address. Richard Guttfield, of Marsworth, Buckinghamshire, resorted to emailing Amazon found...

A scammer successfully filed a change-of-address form with the United States Postal Service to have the headquarters of courier UPS moved to a small private apartment in Chicago—and it was months before anyone noticed. ...

Fast food chain KFC has temporarily closed hundreds of its UK stores due to a shortage of chicken. The cause? A switch to a new delivery contractor, DHL. “The chicken crossed the road, just not to our restaurants,&rdqu...

FedEx has been ordered by a small claims court in Halifax, Nova Scotia, to pay damages for taking two days to deliver stallion sperm on a “Priority overnight” service. The claimant, farmer Chelsea McKendrick, had...

Artist Rebecca Moss, the current resident artist of Access Gallery’s Twenty-Three Days at Sea “travelling artist residency”, is stranded on board a container ship a few hundred kilometres off the coast of Ja...

The Freight Transport Association’s (FTA) headquarters in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, has become a Pokéstop—a place for players of the new Pokemon Go augmented reality game to acquire new items that will help th...

Start-up company Freight Farms takes old “reefers”, refrigerated shipping containers used to transport cold cargo, and repurposes them as balmy, humid chambers for growing crops. Each box measures 320 square feet...

Air Cargo News’ Off the Record has reported an odd new marketing craze in the air cargo industry: Lego kits. The kits for model freighter aircraft have been spotted at exhibition stands at the Multimodal event in Birmi...

Parisian “design collective” Vetements has made headlines after featuring a fairly unremarkable DHL-brand t-shirt in their new spring collection. The shirt is now selling for £185 or $330, depending on where...

British heavy metal band Iron Maiden will be conducting their latest world tour in their very own Boeing 747, dubbed “Ed Force One” after their mascot Eddie the Head. Last night they revealed the plane on Perisco...

FedEx mistakenly delivered a tumour sample instead of an Amazon Kindle to a man in Bristol, UK. The sample, sent from Canada, was intended for the Royal Free Hospital in London. The parcel was delivered when its unintended ...

Airport authorities at Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KUL) are mulling over the mystery of three Boeing 474 jets that have been left at the airport unclaimed. Airport operators have resorted to leaving an advertisement ...

A listing recently appeared on Craigslist for a $600-a-month renovated FedEx truck. It’s been kitted out for accommodation, including wooden floors, mini-kitchen, sunroof and fold-out couch. Sadly, the owner, John D. S...

An interesting incident has cropped up on social media this week: a Yodel customer by the name of Ajmal Aziz reported that he received a ‘sorry we missed you’ note which informed him that his parcel had been left ...

United Arab Emirates and Jetman Dubai have released a video showing two men with jetpacks chasing an Emirates A380 plane. The two daredevils are Yves Rossy and Vince Reffet, who have previously flown their custom rigs over t...

An air freighter carrying a cargo of 2,186 goats may have been forced to land after accumulated goat farts set off the smoke alarm. The Singapore Airlines Boeing 747 freight carrier was transporting the goats from Sydney, Au...