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And you have to be quick because if somebody order, everybody wants your order on the next day.

At the moment, you know, the online business in Ireland is so big and so many companies and everybody sell and, you know, different companies, samples, DPD and things like that.

Sometimes we're extremely, extremely quick because at the moment we have twice postage.

One time at 11 and one time at 4 o'clock.

We have all sorts of security in our house and we don't need any of it.

The entire village knows when DPD come down our drive.

Thankfully, we live in a very rural area.

I think we'd probably have an ASBO out on our dogs if we had too many neighbours.

You're not in control of that.

If you as a business are partnering with DPD or whoever it is, they are likely to come to you recently or if they haven't yet, they will and say, there's a fuel surcharge here.

Then you've got to make that choice as to whether you pass that fuel surge on to your customers or whether you suck some of it up or whether you do a bit of both.

I think the reality is that for lots of businesses, final mile is a dependency.

The move follows the £90 million sale of its Sheffield Distribution Centre to Primark, with operations expected to move in early 2027.

And DPD opened a new automated distribution centre in Darlington ahead of Black Friday and Christmas.

The facility can process up to 50,000 parcels a day and could create as many as 250 jobs.

Turning to store closures, Teach Jonas is planning to close 150 stores under a restructuring programme, potentially affecting around 70 post office branches.

Yeah, so at the minute in Ireland, 30% of our deliveries in Ireland is delivered by electric vehicles, by EV.

I was talking to the sales team with DPD who do most of our domestic shipping.

10 million miles for what's called middle miles.

So the moving from the depots to the main hub, that's all done on HVO

Yeah, so at the minute in Ireland, 30% of our deliveries in Ireland is delivered by electric vehicles, by EV.

I was talking to the sales team with DPD who do most of our domestic shipping.

10 million miles for what's called middle miles.

So the moving from the depots to the main hub, that's all done on HVO these

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was just thinking I had a lot of experience with like DPD and everywhere actually the cryptid part is because you never see them They get a message on your phone saying we tried to deliver this and you're like waiting in front of my door and they're like yeah well we sent a ghost we sent a ghost to breeze past you and you didn't acknowledge it so we decided to wait a week well that

that is the evil side of this right this has two sides we've got the postman and we've got the everyman okay right we've got the good one who's trying to get you the thing and the everyman who just shows up and doesn't uh like deliver or doesn't show up What, does it show up?

No,