Experts warn a flood of online orders combined with shop closures, staff shortages and a logjam at the UK’s biggest port in Felixstowe constitute a perfect storm. The new Covid-19 shutdown in England is expected to have triggered another surge in online shopping, piling pressure on delivery networks already feeling the strain. (Image: Press Pix)David Jinks, of delivery price comparison website Parcelhero, said: “We’ve seen the Mount Everest of peaks in demand for online orders this year. The charity has had three times as many calls about delivery issues since March than in the same period last year. There’s going to be a surge in demand, so you need a much larger margin for error.”

Source: Daily Mirror November 15, 2020 21:41 UTC