Never miss a parcel! (but it’ll cost you): Royal Mail launches service for people to book a specific time slot for letters and packages to compete with rivals Amazon, DPD and Hermes The Royal Mail is planning a new tiered service offering timed deliveries The cheapest option will allow the Royal Mail to determine the … Read more
Parcel cover isn’t the full package: Complaints soar as couriers wriggle out of paying claims By Fiona Parker For The Daily Mail Published: 22:01 BST, 6 April 2021 | Updated: 22:51 BST, 6 April 2021 Complaints about parcel delivery cover are rocketing as couriers wriggle out of paying customer claims. Most major delivery firms offer … Read more
Royal Mail shares surge after it posts £900m sales amid pandemic parcel boom By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:50 GMT, 10 March 2021 | Updated: 21:50 GMT, 10 March 2021 Royal Mail shares surged after the postal service said it expects annual revenues to have jumped by £900million. In a surprise trading … Read more
I bought roughly £200 worth of clothes from online fashion brand, Fashion Nova. Currently I am still going into my workplace and couldn’t be there to collect my order. Yodel, who were the courier company, asked my neighbours to sign for it, which they did. A Fashion Nova customers order was stolen after her neighbours … Read more
Airmail? Moment ‘incompetent’ delivery driver hurls Amazon parcel over front gate – after his first attempt rebounds and hits the ground Yana Holmwood caught driver on CCTV camera at her Essex home on Sunday Courier approaches the eight-foot gate and hurls it, leaving it to smash into gate Driver waits a while before returning and … Read more
Hope it doesn’t taste of cardboard! Mother makes ultra-realistic Amazon parcel cake for her son’s birthday Nina Evans Williams, 54, baked her son a birthday cake shaped like a delivery box Her son had been receiving boxes from Amazon every week during lockdown Over a two-day period, Nina baked and sculpted the cake for her … Read more
The dispiriting photo shared by a parent in receipt of a Government school meal food parcel – where the items appeared to add up to around £5 – has left many suggesting that they could provide a healthy, more satisfying box of food for the same price. Fierce criticism of the scheme, which this morning saw … Read more
How much should the free school meals really be worth? Free school meal allowances are usually £2.34 per pupil per day, an additional £3.50 per seven days has been added in lockdown, equalling £15.20 a week. The Government has told schools to work with their school catering team or provider to make up the food … Read more
Keir Starmer and Marcus Rashford slam ‘disgraceful’ free school meals parcel given to mother to ‘last 10 days’ that she estimates cost £5.22 as children’s minister vows to look into claims Children’s minister Vicky Ford vowed to look into a report by a mother on Twitter The woman, who goes by @RoadsideMum on Twitter, shared … Read more
A Hermes delivery driver has been caught on CCTV ‘stealing’ a Royal Mail parcel that was left on a customer’s doorstep as police have launched an investigation. Sharon Wilson, 72, from Bilborough, Nottinghamshire couldn’t believe her eyes when she looked back on her surveillance footage and caught the driver ‘running off’ with her package. The … Read more