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That's a bit of a shocker. Quite a proportion of my deliveries arrive through City Link, they're a major delivery option. It's not as though the country's submerged in competitors, and the ones which spring to mind are all foreign. I take it DHL is foreign? And Fedex is foreign? And nobody in their right head would pay ParcelForce's prices.



http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-30602326

I always use MyHermes. Really cheap, a fraction of Parcelforce & excellent door to door service.

Really cynical move getting all the staff to pull out all the stops to get deliveries done and then tell them in christmas day. It's the contractors I feel sorry for they will still have to pay for the vans they bought having been assured there was a future.

after visiting the CL site i think that they could have saved themselves if they had wished to

by

1, adopting the my hermes model of reducing prices no parcel limits and home based couriers

2, by scaling down depots i noticed there is 4 in the london area london central ,west, beckton and edmonton those 2 could be closed and the parcels handled at the 2 other london depots birmingham central could cover west bromwich and or coventry with depot staff moving to one area depot .

3, concentrate on uk mainland mail and dispose of 2 depots one in belfast and one in ryde on the channel islands ryde being taken over by plymouth and belfast served from warrington

It just surprises me that a large company like City Link feels they can't carry on trading ! With the increase in online shopping and increasing use of couriers consequently, I find it difficult to understand how such a company fails to carry on trading ! :-3