• DPD Drivers Have Shared Their Fuel Supplement Payments. The Amounts Are Pitiful.

    DPD Drivers Have Shared Their Fuel Supplement Payments. The Amounts Are Pitiful.

    DPD told its self-employed drivers it was stepping in to help with rising fuel costs via a fuel supplement,. The message landed in driver inboxes with the kind of language you would expect from a company looking after its partners. “We know that sudden spikes at the pump directly impact your business, so DPD is…

  • Never Mind the Retention Crisis. Royal Mail Has a Sickness Epidemic.

    Never Mind the Retention Crisis. Royal Mail Has a Sickness Epidemic.

    Half the posties hired since December 2022 have already quit. That’s the figure the Communication Workers Union has put forward. Royal Mail disputes it and puts the number closer to 40%. Either way, the retention crisis has been well documented. It gets the headlines, the parliamentary questions, the union press releases. But there’s another crisis…

  • Inside InPost’s Troubled First Year Running Yodel

    Inside InPost’s Troubled First Year Running Yodel

    Court battles, forged signatures, a £20m Christmas loss, and the drivers being squeezed to cover it all — the untold story of what happened when Poland’s locker giant took over one of Britain’s most troubled couriers. When InPost completed its £106 million acquisition of Yodel in April 2025, the pitch was compelling: merge Poland’s parcel…

  • DPD Delivery Driver Who Killed Grandmother Before Continuing His Round Is Jailed

    DPD Delivery Driver Who Killed Grandmother Before Continuing His Round Is Jailed

    A DPD delivery driver who fatally injured a 77-year-old grandmother before driving off to continue his delivery route has been jailed for 16 months. James Murdoch, 43, from Chester-le-Street, County Durham, knocked down Victoria Blair outside the Haltwhistle residential home where she lived on January 27, 2023, causing injuries that would claim her life a…

  • Asset Stripping Fears: Royal Mail to Sell Off Four Scottish Delivery Offices

    Asset Stripping Fears: Royal Mail to Sell Off Four Scottish Delivery Offices

    Royal Mail is preparing to auction off four former delivery offices across Scotland in what critics fear could mark the beginning of a systematic asset stripping programme under foreign ownership. Auction House Scotland has listed the properties for sale on 27th November, with locations in Anstruther, Bearsden, Kirriemuir, and Biggar all going under the hammer…