Courier

Stores in Istanbul that are still open and provide essential goods in Istanbul are struggling to meet the soaring demand with their army of delivery people.

Courier companies are these days facing demand comparable to the pre-Christmas period or Black Friday, as the coronavirus crisis has sent their workload soaring. However, the conditions they have to operate in are tough, and they are now scrambling to adapt to meet the jump in demand as a result of households' rapid swing toward online commerce.

The postal services' total value in Romania in 2018 parked at RON 3.2 billion lei (rd EUR 680 million), up by 13pct against the previous year, and the Posta Romana National Company (CNPR) lost its first position to Fan Courier, the private courier service, which recorded a 21pct market share, show the data released on Tuesday by Romania's National Communications Regulation and Administration Au

Authorities said on Thursday that officers of the financial crimes squad and narcotics unit seized 3.4 kilos of heroin on Tuesday that had been concealed in African folk art paintings which arrived in a package at a courier office in Athens from Mozambique via France.

Many motorcycle couriers who work on a freelance basis are demanding that the companies they work for integrate them into the social security system.

The delivery riders who, rain or shine, rush about with our orders, risking their lives on badly maintained mopeds for the lowest wages, are a symbol of our time.

Delivery and courier workers ride their bikes as they demonstrate over labor issues affecting their sector, outside the parliament building in Athens, Thursday. [Alkis Konstantinidis/Reuters]

Two couriers riding a motorcycle were attacked by a gang who robbed them of about $300,000 in Istanbul on March. 4.

Businesses in the postal and courier sector exceeded the 4 billion lei threshold in 2018 due to the spectacular increase in product sales on the Internet, KeysFin specialists estimate in an analysis published on Monday.

A sum of 1,200,000 Turkish liras were stolen after a jewelry courier's vehicle was stopped by suspects who opened fire against police in Istanbul on May 8.