Royal Mail to start delivering parcels on Sundays for first time

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Parcels will be delivered by Royal Mail on a Sunday for the first time to meet growing demand sparked by soaring levels of online shopping. The move is aimed at tapping into the seven-days-a-week delivery market as more consumers expect Sunday deliveries as part of their online shopping. In the last year, Royal Mail said it has processed unprecedented parcel volumes, delivering 496 million in the third quarter ending December 27. Sunday deliveries, which customers have come to expect after being offered the service by companies like Amazon, will start off with a number of yet unnamed major retailers before Royal Mail expands this over the year.

Royal Mail said construction of its second, and largest, parcel hub is under way in Daventry in Northamptonshire, with the capacity to process more than one million parcels a day. Chief commercial officer Nick Landon said: ‘The UK already trusts us to deliver their purchases six days a week both quickly and conveniently. Now, for the first time, our posties will be doing the same thing seven days a week. ‘The last year has reset so many customer expectations and the desire for even more convenient and even more frequent parcel deliveries has certainly been one of them. ‘We always listen to our customers, both senders and recipients, and the ask here was clear: we love what you do Monday to Saturday, so please do the same on a Sunday. ‘So that’s what we’re doing, as quickly as possible, so we can offer it to more and more customers across the course of this year.’ Some 11.7 million deliveries were made in one day during Royal Mail’s busiest time at the end of last year. Bosses at Royal Mail said it expected to make an operating profit of more than £500 million in the financial year ending in March. That has now been revised to £700 million.

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