Caitríona Redmond: The collapse of Fastway is not just bad news for consumers

Collect your rightful refund but be kind

Smaller enterprises depending on Fastway as their sole delivery partner could be seriously struggling at this point. Cash-flow is the life blood of business.

It's now been 20 days since the first news broke of Fastway going into receivership and, in a spectacular turn of bad or good news, depending on which camp you sit in, Christmas is fewer than 40 days away.

Before I start explaining how your online purchases may have been treated in the interim, it’s very important to recognise that the worst of the news has fallen on the former delivery people. Certainly, for the former staff and contractors of Fastway, it’s been extremely difficult news to bear.