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Evri and Yodel rank worst for parcel customer service for a fourth year, while Amazon and FedEx lead, in Ofcom’s 2026 survey. Overall satisfaction fell to 75% and the regulator is weighing tougher rules.
Royal Mail has delayed moving its last 107 delivery offices to alternate-weekday second-class post until 11 January 2027, so staff can focus on Christmas. Here is what it means for cards, parcels, posting deadlines and small online sellers.
Evri says it has invested £32.2 million this year, lifting capacity to 4.9 million parcels a day and hiring 10,000 extra people for the Christmas peak. Here is what it means for deliveries, send dates and missing-parcel claims.
Royal Mail has set Friday 18 December as the last second class posting date for Christmas 2026, with first class on Monday 21 December and Special Delivery on Wednesday 23 December. Here are the Evri, DPD, Parcelforce, international and forces deadlines, and what shoppers and sellers should do now.
DoorDash Air likely carries paid orders in Dallas-Fort Worth or Charlotte by 30 June 2027, with both metros plausible by 30 September 2027. Two dated Labs job posts, a new six-rotor aircraft and a stalled FAA rule point the same way.
US containerized import volumes likely trough in March 2027 rather than April, with the month printing below 1.95 million TEU. Three dated signals point the same way: the Global Port Tracker’s opposing forecast revisions, an escalating transpacific blank-sailing programme, and a summer pull-forward already landed in inventory.
Signals point to at least two further acquisitions of Europe-based e-commerce returns or reverse-logistics platforms being announced by 30 June 2027. ReturnPro’s Madrid deal, a public repricing of return windows and a dated EU textile compliance clock all sharpen into the same window.
Amazon likely discloses a US Amazon Now micro-fulfillment site count, or names ten or more new US metros, before June 30, 2027. Three hiring signals from August and September 2026 point to a shift from coverage to templated site construction.
Bnode is likely to book a further non-cash impairment against its North American e-fulfilment arm at the FY2026 year-end test, reported in the first half of March 2027. The tell was the September 25 swap of a turnaround CEO for the unit own finance chief, effective immediately.
The FedEx-Advent consortium closed its InPost tender at 89.8% on September 18, and InPost is already running last-mile deliveries for FedEx in the UK and Poland. Three signals point to that pilot becoming a contracted, multi-country arrangement by June 30, 2027.