The parcel empires strike back as smaller players take stock
Over the past couple of years small parcel carriers have gained ground, as behemoths FedEx, ...
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By Ian Putzger
Spiking e-commerce volumes are putting private and public parcel carriers under strain, prompting some desperate measures.
This month the Swiss postal service announced it “could not cope” with the volume of parcel traffic and would limit daily volume allocations for its 100 largest customers.
It had already expanded sorting activities to Saturdays, but evidently this was not enough to process the surging traffic.
According to DHL Parcel Germany, volumes kept rising and have reached levels normally seen in the run-up to Christmas, and ...
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