Whistl


Whistl, formerly TNT Post UK, is a postal delivery company operating in the United Kingdom. The company primarily competes with UK Mail, UPS, Parcelforce, DHL, Hermes, Royal Mail and Yodel. According to the company, it processes about 25% of the mail in the United Kingdom, amounting to over 3.7 billion items per year in 2015.
The company was a wholly owned subsidiary of the Dutch delivery company PostNL until October 2015, when a management buyout was completed, with PostNL became a minority shareholder.

History

As TNT Post, the company was originally a subsidiary of the TNT Group. In May 2011, the group split with to form TNT Express and PostNL. TNT Post UK became a subsidiary of PostNL, and an agreement was reached with TNT Express to continue using the TNT name until the end of 2014. The company began delivering in West London in April 2012, later rolling out its end to end service in Manchester and Liverpool.
The company rebranded as Whistl in September 2014.
In May 2015, Whistl announced that it would suspend door to door deliveries in London, Liverpool, and Manchester after the private equity investor LDC, a division of Lloyds Bank, decided not to fund further expansion citing "ongoing changes in postal market in the United Kingdom dynamics and the complexity of the regulatory landscape" and an attempt to stem losses.
Whistl confirmed on 10 June 2015 that the service would formally end, with 1,800 jobs at risk of redundancy. The company concentrated on processing and sorting mail and parcels, and reverted to using Royal Mail's "final mile" delivery service rather than its own. In October 2015, Whistl's management completed a buyout of the company from PostNL, although PostNL retained a 17.5% holding.
In June 2018, Whistl acquired Nottingham based Parcelhub and its sister company Mail Workshop.

Locations

Whistl has depots in the United Kingdom at Newtownabbey, Glasgow, Bolton, Bristol and Bedford. Whistl's head office is in Marlow, Buckinghamshire.