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...IDS is comprised of Netherlands-based parcels business GLS and the UK’s Royal Mail, the postal service and courier company....
...The company’s share of UK parcel volumes dropped from 34 per cent to 25 per cent between 2020 and 2022, according to mail services group Pitney Bowes....
...The move comes as the Barclay family have scrambled to sell off assets to raise cash, including the Spectator magazine’s headquarters in Westminster, and Yodel, the parcel delivery group....
...Deloitte has taken on extra office space in central London less than two years after making cutbacks, in an about-turn that indicates staff in professional services are returning to the workplace more regularly...
...In European countries experiencing recessions, demand for express services fell....
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...It delivers about a quarter of American parcels. UPS trucks haul the equivalent of 6 per cent of the country’s gross domestic product....
...The company plans to offer seven-days-a-week delivery of parcels — as it does now — even if its regulator Ofcom allows it to cut back some other services....
...The business also needs to make its operations, currently geared to letters and manual sorting, more efficient and focused on parcel delivery....
...Strife with staff is something Italy’s service and the Royal Mail share. But with fewer letters and parcels than the UK, Italian posties already only deliver every other day....
...A United Airlines flight crashed here in 1946, just below the summit. This is harsh and spare country, but laid atop it is an invisible and precise geometry. This is graph-paper wilderness....
...Unfortunately this appears to mean caring for old people, delivering parcels and serving food, none of which show any signs of economically viable automation....
...“Here we go again — pass the parcel with the keys to the taoiseach’s office one more time,” she said....
...Traditional deposit-taking banks originate these leveraged loans and parcel them out to specialist funds including so-called collateralised loan obligations....
...But part of the problem is that delivery is a service we expect to get for free. If retailers are paying peanuts for parcel delivery, no wonder we complain that the service is rubbish....
...The Chicago carrier said it would resume flights between Newark, New Jersey, and Tel Aviv on March 2, with nonstop service beginning four days later....
...United Airlines is the first US airline to resume flights to Israel, after they were suspended last fall following the outbreak of war....
...Stern assembled the parcel with fellow developer Joseph Chetrit, paying $90mn for the Dime building in 2015....
...In January, for instance, parcel delivery company DPD’s chatbot composed a poem to a customer about how “useless” the delivery service was, before it was disabled....
An industry-wide fall in package volumes after two years of strong demand means the outlook is nothing to write home about
...One way of driving down costs is by joining together nearby acreage, enabling companies to operate across large swaths rather than piecemeal parcels....
...FedEx moved most of the United States Postal Service air cargo nationwide....
...But he said the group was pushing to recover parcel volumes and was expecting to “win more [business] than we lost”....
...Křetínský’s bought stakes in supermarket chain J Sainsbury and London football club West Ham United....
...The result dragged IDS, which also owns the profitable international parcel business GLS, to a loss before tax of £194mn, an increase of 53 per cent compared with the same period last year....
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