Royal Mail strike spreads disruption to couriers Evri and DPD
DPD and Evri have blamed Royal Mail worker strikes for disruption to their own services
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Royal Mail parent company International Distribution Services PLC is the sole provider of the universal postal service in the UK, delivering a six-days-a-week to more than 29 million addresses across the UK. It changed its name in 2022 to distinguish its UK arm from its Amsterdam-based international parcels business, GLS. It changed its name to International Distributions Services PLC in October 2022 and removed an 's' in a slight change to International Distribution Services PLC in May 2024
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DPD and Evri have blamed Royal Mail worker strikes for disruption to their own services
Complaints include packages stuck at depots, delays with no follow-up information and paid-for next-day deliveries not arriving.
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“No interim dividend to be paid, and while management has said it will look at the potential to pay a final dividend funded by GLS, we believe this is unlikely given the group’s challenging near term earnings prospects”
A spokesman for the company said "time is tight" but the union said senior bosses "have been treating employees, union representatives or future investors with a lack of integrity and transparency"
The news came as the FTSE 250-listed company swung sharply into the red at the half-way stage hit by weak parcel volumes, an inability to deliver productivity improvements and impacts from industrial action
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