Liza explained Royal Mail is one of the largest employers in the UK (over 150,000 employees) the delivery team exceeds seventy thousand.

Carl detailed the new Trailblazer qualifications and levy, companies exceeding three million pounds will be asked to pay half a per-cent into levy for training, the Royal Mail levy is likely to be more than twenty million pounds. This will engage substantial numbers of the sector in training to drive forward the next generation of express workforce to the evolving platform of exploding numbers in e-retail and home delivery of goods purchased online.

The express sector is rapidly evolving into a dedicated career role in logistics, this is not the territory of supply chain purchasing, nor is it the job of storage or warehouse, express focuses on urgent transportation, there is no storage of goods in giant warehouses and no team purchasing or planning stock movements.

Beyond the level two Trailblazer lies a level 6 degree apprentice for management in the express sector focused on sortation and network routing of express deliveries. The degree apprenticeship is in development alongside an existing logistics degree with the University of Derby in the East Midlands hot spot of transport, LEP D2N2 have named the inspirational postcode, (80% of UK within 4 hours of East Midlands airport by road). A level 3 recognises mentors in the team who will pass existing knowledge to colleagues and a level 4 focuses on supervisory roles in sortation and routes.