Royal Mail loses Amazon contract as postal strikes loom
Threat to deliveries forces major client to pull plug on £25m deal
Royal Mail has lost a crucial contract with its second largest customer, the online retailer Amazon, as a wave of strikes threaten parcel deliveries in the busy pre-Christmas sales period.
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Wednesday, 7 October, 2009
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