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Actually quite a common issue!

The UPS takeover of TNT was blocked by the regulators. It'll be interesting to see if this deal goes through.

Yodel and Collect Plus are owned by the same people - the Barclay brothers, who also own the Shop Direct group. Hermes are a part of a German-based group, with operations all over Europe pretty much. DPD's tracking capabilities are yet to be really matched by any of the other operators in the...

That is more the hallmark of the more 'budget' courier companies. If you look at Royal Mail, DPD, UPS & TNT, they don't operate using that model, and this is why they are the favoured courier for most of the larger, more respectable retailers etc.

It wouldn't make economic sense for them to cover all of their deliveries to the rural areas, when they have Royal Mail to do that for them. As the vast majority of the delivery cost is in the final mile, they can offload a lot of the financial risk by using another courier for that part of the...

Yep, they deliver a tiny proportion of their own parcels. They'll probably expand this to take in the bigger cities, including one hour delivery slots, but I can't see them delivering all of their parcels to rural areas.

I can't see Amazon ever wanting to roll out their own delivery network for the more rural areas of the country - it's far more likely that they'll focus on towns and cities. Given that most of the delivery cost for anything is in the final mile, I can't see them wanting to do that for rural areas.