How fuel and driver shortages are affecting ecommerce deliveries services now – and the prospects for peak trading – Operations and Logistics

Queuing cars waiting to buy fuel at a BP petrol filling station in Berkshire this week as British drivers panic buy fuel. Image: Amani A/Shutterstock.com The fuel and driver shortages that have dominated the headlines this week are not affecting home delivery services at the moment, say delivery companies and …

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Professional Pensions Monthly Digest: September 2021

Policy watch… The government has launched a consultation on defining and implementing changes within The Pension Regulator’s (TPR) notifiable events regime. Draft regulations on 8 September showed two new notifiable events, as well as additional information and definitions, and three events which will require a notice and statement. Royal Mail …

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Pop-up Post Office coming to Kings Bromley

A temporary post office service is set to be introduced at two places in Staffordshire after the closure of their permanent offices which used to offer services. The Royal Mail ‘outreach’ service is set to be introduce in Kings Bromley and in Longdon on Tuesdays. The pop-up Post Offices will …

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Southeastern pension fund liabilities on the line | Business

The government’s sacking this week of Go-Ahead from Southeastern over the failure to repay £25 million of subsidies, has left the taxpayer with a much larger bill: a £675 million hole in the rail network’s pension fund whose liabilities the Treasury must now take on. Analysis of Southeastern’s most recent …

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