Royal Mail is staffing up for peak. Are you?
Royal Mail is recruiting approximately 22,000 seasonal staff ahead of the 2026 Christmas peak parcel period, reported by Parcel and Postal Technology International on 25 September 2026. That hiring scale is a useful read on expected UK volume, and a prompt to confirm your own peak plans.
UK Bill Could Force Your 3PL to Replace Its Technology
The UK Cyber Security and Resilience Bill completed its Commons passage on 16 June 2026 and is at House of Lords committee stage. It would let ministers order transport and logistics operators to remove technology from vendors judged a national security risk, which puts despatch in someone else’s hands.