It seems that Internet retail giant Amazon has teamed up with Royal Mail, where this collaboration of theirs would allow customers’ items to be delivered to post offices for collection, adding even more value to their respective services and helping make lives easier for everyone. After all, Amazon is known for always wanting to up their game, so to speak, with one of the more recent efforts being the promotion of installation services alongside their products. Basically, this agreement would mean that Amazon customers can have their parcels delivered by Royal Mail to 10,500 post office branches.
Analyst Nicla Di Palma, of Brewin Dolphin, shared, “Clearly the reasoning behind this must be Royal Mail trying to save some of its business.” After all, Royal Mail’s parcel operations have not been doing well at all ever since it faced intense competition after going private the year before. With the inclusion of the Royal Mail Local Collect “click and collect” facility, this would translate to Amazon having a whopping 16,000 pickup locations throughout in the UK. Some of the existing locations will include “Pass my Parcel” newsagent and convenience stores, Collect+ stores and Amazon lockers at train stations.
In order to make this collaboration a success, a Post Office spokesperson did mention that 5,000 branches will offer extended opening hours so that they can assist “click and collect” customers.
Filed in . Read more about Amazon.