News / Cost pressure rises for parcel carriers alongside booming consumer demand

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The parcel industry has been turbo-charged by the Covid-19 pandemic, but is now feeling some pain in response to the massive boom in traffic.

“In the past two weeks we carried over two million parcels – a higher volume than in previous peaks,” Gilles Fernandez, sales director, mail & parcels at AN Post, told a Post & Parcel online conference last week.

Operators are fast-tracking investment in capacity expansion to keep up with the relentless growth and Mr Fernandez reckons 50% of ...