Parcelforce
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| Trading name | |
| Industry | Postal Service |
| Founded | 1990 |
| Headquarters | Milton Keynes, England, UK |
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Number of employees
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4,500 |
| Parent | Royal Mail Group Ltd |
| Website | www |
Parcelforce Worldwide is a courier and logistics service in the United Kingdom. Parcelforce Worldwide is a trading name of Royal Mail Group Ltd., and is organised within the UK Parcels, International and Letters division of the group.
The company delivers to destinations worldwide, using an international partner network. Its European delivery partner, General Logistics Systems (GLS), is also a subsidiary of Royal Mail and delivers more than one million parcels a day across 34 countries in Europe.
Parcelforce Worldwide is a direct competitor of other worldwide delivery brands such as DHL, DX Group, FedEx and UPS.
Parcelforce Worldwide operates a "hub and spoke" collection and delivery system with two hubs based at Coventry, adjacent to the airport. One hub is for UK parcels and the other for international parcels. The UK hub, one of the country's largest buildings, is a highly automated tracking and sorting centre covering 24,000 square metres (5.9 acres) and can handle up to 58,500 parcels an hour.
The Parcel Post service of Royal Mail was started in 1883, though parcel services operated by the railway companies, later Red Star Parcels and British Road Services, were also heavily used for many decades.
Royal Mail was separated into three divisions in 1986, and in 1990 Royal Mail Parcels was rebranded as Parcelforce.
In 1992, the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, Michael Heseltine, proposed a privatisation of the Parcelforce business. He argued that the company provided most of its services to businesses rather than individuals, and that the competitive market it operated in meant there was no need for it to remain a publicly owned company.
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