Times Online - Yodel is the latest delivery company to put the call out for more drivers as the economy shifts to shopping online. The group said that it needed 3,000 more staff as it expected business to increase before Christmas and particularly as the government has signalled tighter restrictions on people going out. Yodel says that 2,500 of the couriers or parcel sorters it is recruiting for its 50 centres nationwide will be self-employed. Another 450 new recruits will be offered full-time posts. It has a workforce of about 10,000 and is owned by the family interests of the Barclay brothers, the billionaires who own the Telegraph group. Yodel came out of their takeover of Littlewoods in 2002.
