The loss of contracts to deliver parcels for online retailers seems to have been one nail in the coffin of Fastway Couriers. Photograph: Sasko Lazarov/RollingNews.ie
The loss to An Post of contracts to deliver parcels for online retailers ASOS and Sports Direct seems to have been one nail – if not the final one -in the coffin of Fastway Couriers, which collapsed last week leaving staff, contract drivers and customers stranded.
Regardless of whether or not this is the case, it has revived the issue over whether An Post is using its State-owned and subsidised mail delivery network to undercut commercial courier companies when bidding for delivery contracts from big online retailers.
It is not quite that simple of course.
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