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Amazon and Hermes eye Post Office after Royal Mail stranglehold ends New deal ends centuries-old arrangement that has meant the Post Office only handles Royal Mail items 17 December 2020 • 4:54pm Amazon and Hermes are in talks with the Post Office for it to handle parcels, allowing them to muscle in on Royal Mail’s dominant position in the delivery market. The Post Office has struck a new deal that will free it from a centuries-old arrangement tying it to Royal Mail.  The Post Office remains in state ownership after it was split from Royal Mail, which was privatised and floated on the st...

By Lyndsey Cambridge2020-12-17T12:32:00+00:00 The Post Office will now be allowed to work with parcel delivery networks such as Hermes, DPD and Amazon The Post Office and Royal Mail have struck a deal which will see the two iconic brands no longer working in an exclusive partnership. The second Mails Distribution Agreement will kick off on 21 March and run until 28 March 2032. For the last 10 years an agreement has been in place which stipulated the Post Office was only permitted to distribute parcels via Royal Mail and Parcelforce. The new deal will allow the Post Office to work with other...

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