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Behind the scenes: how we provide integrated shipping solutions
- Date: 30/05/2024 11:29
- Category: Mail & Parcel Delivery
At Transglobal Express, we’re always looking for ways to drive down the costs of parcel delivery for our customers, while offering the greatest possible choice and flexibility. One of the ways we do this is through our...
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Your guide to shipping chocolate this Easter
- Date: 26/03/2024 09:51
- Category: Mail & Parcel Delivery
Easter is one of the most popular times of the year to send chocolate gifts. It’s an early one this year, taking place on 31st March, so it may have come around sooner than you eggs-pected. But there’s still plen...
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DX opens its brand new Carlisle depot
- Date: 01/03/2024 10:27
- Category: Mail & Parcel Delivery
DX Group has unveiled its latest depot in Carlisle, a significant addition aimed at bolstering the company’s parcel operations. It's part of the DX Express division which specialises in secure, tracked deliveries ...
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DX opens new depot in Preston
- Date: 13/02/2024 10:46
- Category: Mail & Parcel Delivery
As DX continues to grow, they have decided to expand into Preston, where they are opening a new depot designed to provide extra capacity for their parcel network in the Northwest. The facility is situated on 1.4 acres within...
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How to send a Valentine's Day gift in 2024
- Date: 08/02/2024 16:18
- Category: Mail & Parcel Delivery
Ever wondered what it takes to make 250 million hearts skip a beat? Well, it's not just Cupid's arrow, but the staggering number of flowers exchanged globally on Valentine's Day each year! Whether you're in the business ...
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UPS sign agreement for new hub at Hong Kong International Airport
- Date: 19/01/2024 11:33
- Category: Mail & Parcel Delivery
A new partnership between UPS and the Hong Kong Airport Authority intends to enhance UPS service to customers, and improve operations in Asia, with a new hub. UPS Hong Kong will use the new building as its primary processing...
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A New Year’s checklist for your parcel shipments
- Date: 09/01/2024 14:04
- Category: Mail & Parcel Delivery
Big plans for the year ahead? Start off the right way in 2024 with better solutions for your parcel shipments. Take a look at our checklist to see what improvements you could make this year, to help boost your business, ...
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Royal Mail fined by Ofcom for failing to meet delivery targets
- Date: 04/12/2023 14:40
- Category: Mail & Parcel Delivery
Royal Mail has been fined £5.6m ($6.9m) by Ofcom for missing their First and Second Class delivery targets for 2022/23. Royal Mail is required by Ofcom's regulations to deliver 93% of its First Class mail in a single w...
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Royal Mail services still affected over a month after cyberattack
- Date: 16/02/2023 12:02
- Category: Mail & Parcel Delivery
Royal Mail is still working through its backlog of international shipments after a ransomware attack last month, which left hundreds of thousands of letters and parcels stuck in transit. The company subsequently asked custom...
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Royal Mail unable to send parcels abroad after “cyber incident”
- Date: 12/01/2023 11:46
- Category: Mail & Parcel Delivery
Royal Mail has been temporarily unable to send letters and parcels overseas, following what it has described as a “cyber incident”. The company asked customers to stop sending mail abroad as it was unable to disp...
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Updated strike dates for postal workers
- Date: 21/11/2022 11:46
- Category: Mail & Parcel Delivery
The Communication Workers Union (CWU) has announced new Royal Mail strike dates in November and December. Strikes are now planned for the following dates: November: 24th, 25th (Black Friday), 30th December: 1st, ...
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Planned strike action for postal workers
- Date: 30/09/2022 13:56
- Category: Mail & Parcel Delivery
The Communication Workers Union (CWU) has called on Royal Mail workers to strike on a number of dates in the remainder of this year. The dates are as follows: Friday 30th September Saturday 1st October ...
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Parcel companies confirm service suspension for the state funeral of Queen Elizabeth II
- Date: 15/09/2022 12:06
- Category: Mail & Parcel Delivery
Parcel companies including FedEx and DHL have confirmed that they will not be collecting or delivering parcels in the UK on Monday 19th September, the day of the state funeral of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. It was announ...
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Important changes to French VAT law from January 2022
- Date: 24/12/2021 11:27
- Category: Mail & Parcel Delivery
From 1st January 2022 there are some significant changes to French VAT law. The management and collection of import VAT will be transferred from French Customs to the French Tax Authority. Postponed VAT Accounting (PVA) will...
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Early shopping due to supply chain concerns may ease holiday crunch for carriers
- Date: 25/11/2021 13:25
- Category: Mail & Parcel Delivery
Customer worries about retail supply chain issues this year may actually help to ease the usual seasonal crunch for parcel carriers, according to the Wall Street Journal. Alongside other factors including added capacity, ext...
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5 billion parcels were shipped in the UK in 2020
- Date: 30/09/2021 10:51
- Category: Mail & Parcel Delivery
Pitney Bowes, a technology company that provides e-commerce solutions and maintains the Parcel Shipping Index, a measure of global parcel volume in 13 major markets, has released its data for 2020. Global parcel volume reach...
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Record-breaking turnover and 4,000 new staff for Australia Post
- Date: 08/09/2021 11:45
- Category: Mail & Parcel Delivery
Australia Post’s revenue increased by more than 10% for the last financial year, reflecting a broader trend across the industry of a huge rise in e-commerce demand. The company is set to make 4,000 new hires across the...
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Fraud parcel delivery texts account for more than half of all “smishing” attempts
- Date: 20/08/2021 12:29
- Category: Mail & Parcel Delivery
Cybersecurity firm Proofpoint has published data showing that over half of “smishing” attempts in the UK over the last 90 days—that is, fraudulent texts pretending to be from genuine companies—related ...
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Cargo e-bikes 60% faster than vans in city centres, says study
- Date: 05/08/2021 13:16
- Category: Mail & Parcel Delivery
Cargo e-bikes deliver around 60% faster than vans in city centres, making ten deliveries to every six from vans, according to a report from the Car-Free Megacities project. The e-bikes also cut carbon emissions 90% compared ...
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Postal delays as Royal Mail staff forced to self-isolate due to COVID-19
- Date: 27/07/2021 14:18
- Category: Mail & Parcel Delivery
Royal Mail has warned that there may be postal delays in several areas of England due to staff forced to self-isolate. Usually delivering six days per week, under its obligations as the UK’s designated universal servic...
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Start-ups proliferate as delivery giants tackle e-commerce demand
- Date: 22/07/2021 11:39
- Category: Mail & Parcel Delivery
A surge in e-commerce demand has led to a proliferation of start-ups and small hauliers as the biggest carriers struggle to cope with volume, according to Bloomberg. Residential deliveries had already been on the rise in rec...
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Cardboard box shortage leads to difficulties for retailers
- Date: 12/02/2021 13:35
- Category: Mail & Parcel Delivery
Retailers are struggling with a shortage of cardboard boxes due to lockdown and Brexit delays, delivery company ParcelHero has reported. Increased demand during lockdown has combined with slower rates of recycling, leading t...
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Retailers should make returns easier and faster, says InPost
- Date: 10/02/2021 13:04
- Category: Mail & Parcel Delivery
57% of online shoppers said that returning items is a time-consuming hassle, according to research conducted by UK parcel locker company InPost. 51% of shoppers said that they are in possession of more items to return than t...
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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...