Royal Mail gears up for ‘Harry’
Britain’s mail service is conferring with retailers and renting out hundreds of extra trucks in anticipation of the launch of the seventh -- and final -- installment of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series.
The launch date for “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” has yet to be announced, but the Royal Mail has already begun gearing up for the challenge of delivering the final volume to the hundreds of thousands of fans who are expected to order it before publication.
“We’re already planning for the launch,” Royal Mail spokesman James Eadie said Thursday. “We’re talking to retailers about what volumes they expect, and what they expect from us, so that we can put the logistics in place to deliver on the date of issue.”
More than 500,000 advance order copies of the sixth adventure, “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince,” were delivered on July 16, 2005, in an operation that required some 150 additional trucks ferrying books to about 1,400 delivery offices across Britain.
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