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Parcelforce Worldwide is a courier and logistics service in the United Kingdom. Parcelforce Worldwide is a trading name of Royal Mail , which is a subsidiary of International Distribution Services , [ 1 ] and is organised within the UK Parcels, International and Letters division of the group. [ 2 ]
Royal Mail Group Limited, trading as Royal Mail, is a British postal service and courier company. It is owned by International Distribution Services.It operates the brands Royal Mail (letters and parcels) and Parcelforce Worldwide (parcels).
Package delivery from a UPS truck. Package delivery or parcel delivery is the delivery of shipping containers, parcels, or high-value mail as single shipments. The service is provided by most postal systems, express mail, private courier companies, and less-than-truckload shipping carriers. [1]
In December 2024, the UK Labour government approved the £3.6bn sale of International Distribution Services (IDS) to EP Group, marking the first time the 508-year-old postal service came under foreign ownership. The deal, reviewed under national security laws, included commitments to retain the universal service obligation, UK headquarters, and ...
United Parcel Service, Inc. (UPS) is an American multinational shipping & receiving and supply chain management company founded in 1907. [1] Originally known as the American Messenger Company specializing in telegraphs, UPS has expanded to become a Fortune 500 company [ 6 ] and one of the world's largest shipping couriers .
Yodel is a delivery service company based in Liverpool, England. [1] [2] It was originally known as the Home Delivery Network (HDN, [3] full name Home Delivery Network Limited, HDNL), [4] until it acquired the business-to-business (B2B) and retail operations of DHL Express UK and thereafter, rebranded itself as Yodel in May 2010.
Post Office Limited, formerly Post Office Counters Limited and commonly known as the Post Office, is a state-owned retail post office company in the United Kingdom that provides a wide range of postal and non-postal related products including postage stamps, banking, insurance, bureau de change and identity verification services to the public through its nationwide network of around 11,500 ...
Notice warning of postal service disruption due to strikes in Oxford in October 2022. On 29 June 2022, Royal Mail managers in Unite voted to approve strike action and industrial action short of a strike over job cuts and a redeployment programme which the union claimed would result in "worsening terms and conditions". [21]