Royal Mail partners with Amazon to offer Post Office 'click and collect'
Royal Mail and Amazon announced a partnership which will enable online shoppers to have items delivered to their nearest Post Office branch.
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US digital retail giant Amazon signed up Royal Mail and the Post Office's Local Collect service on Tuesday, in a move which will make it easier for its customers to avoid missing deliveries.
Shoppers will be able to collect their Amazon orders to any of the 10,500 Post Office branches in the UK.
Royal Mail partnered with the Post Office to launch the 'click-and-collect' service in August this year.
Amazon said deliveries made to its existing click-and-collect locations in the UK have more than tripled in the last year.
Royal Mail last week released half year results that showed its profits hit by a reduction of UK parcels was impacted by Amazon's own-delivery network, which will reduce Royal Mail's annual rate of growth in the addressable market to 1 or 2%.
Chief executive Moya Greene said the UK parcels market “remains challenging", but she has targeted a number of "new, growing areas, and delivered two per cent volume growth in a competitive market".
The group has put in place other measures to boost festive trading, making it easier and cheaper for customers to send parcels in the run up to Christmas with changes to its rules on small parcels, almost doubling the size of a 'small parcel' to allow more or larger items to be put in one box, as well as reducing the price.
From 20 October to 18 January 2015, the cost has been cut to £2.80 to post a small parcel weighing up to 2kg by second class.