{"id":245875,"date":"2025-12-22T13:09:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T13:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/245875\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T13:09:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T13:09:14","slug":"a-minute-and-a-half-after-fastway-took-our-parcels-we-got-a-message-they-were-bust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/245875\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A minute and a half after Fastway took our parcels, we got a message \u2013 they were bust\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Many businesses continue to struggle with fallout of delivery firm\u2019s collapse\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"In the wake of Fastway\u2019s collapse, at the busiest time of the year, many firms have not been able to find a new delivery partner\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/357c95bb-6a01-43bf-a45b-f6811b53076b.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">In the wake of Fastway\u2019s collapse, at the busiest time of the year, many firms have not been able to find a new delivery partner<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">On the Tuesday evening after the October bank holiday, vans pulled up outside warehouses and shops across Ireland as normal, parcels were scanned, loaded and driven away. Minutes later, phones began to buzz.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Fastway Couriers, one of the country\u2019s largest delivery networks, had collapsed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Many businesses continue to struggle with fallout of delivery firm\u2019s collapse In the wake of Fastway\u2019s collapse, at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245876,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[13803,79,16838,18,19,17,6561],"class_list":{"0":"post-245875","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-an-post","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-christmas","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-rory-mcginn"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115763384815527872","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}