Royal Mail to halve UK deliveries by flight in carbon-cutting drive

Michael Holder
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Delivery firm to transport more mail via road in a move aimed at reducing emissions and improving customer reliability

Royal Mail is scaling back deliveries by flight in the UK and will instead transport more mail by road, in a move it said would help to both improve reliability for customers and cut carbon emissions in...

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