Royal Mail and the Post Office are to launch the UK’s largest ‘click and collect’ network to support online shopping growth by providing greater choice of convenience parcel delivery options for online retailers and their customers later this year.
Around 10,500 Post Offices will be taking part in the initiative which will enable online retailers to offer shoppers the opportunity to order items for collection at their local branch. More than 4,000 will offer access to items ordered through click and collect outside the usual Post Office opening hours.
Royal Mail is currently talking to a number of large online retailers about integrating their service into their websites later this year and the company plans to extend the service to smaller retailers in 2014.
