Royal Mail warns threat from Amazon logistics network could stifle growth

Royal Mail has warned for a second time that competition from other carriers, this time Amazon’s own delivery network, will damage its growth prospects. In its half-year results, the company estimated that its total number of parcel deliveries in the UK should increase by 4% a year in the medium term, but said the impact of Amazon increasingly delivering its own parcels could reduce this growth to 1-2%. Back in June Royal Mail called for Ofcom to protect it from […]