Holiday Sales In The UK Will Increase By 18%. Courier Companies Take New Steps To Deal With Orders.

Due to the surge in holiday shopping and the limited capacity of logistics companies to handle express business, it may lead to a series of distribution problems.

UPS and other express companies launched their own service at gas stations and newsstands.

Goods purchased from eBay can be picked up from Argos stores. Amazon also signed the same day package service with the newspaper wholesaler Connect group.

According to the December 1st report, according to the survey conducted by the British Retail Research Center (CRR), more and more consumers began to use mobile devices.

Books and gadgets predict that holiday sales in the UK will rise by 18% this year.

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They said they will take new measures to deal with surging orders, but considering the high cost of temporary couriers and vehicles, this investment needs careful consideration.

CRR manager Joshua Bamfield thinks this is a serious problem.

In addition to holiday demand, the government estimated that there were still 60000 shortage of freight drivers, including the reasons for the new certification rules.

Justin Zatouroff, the logistics director of KPMG accounting firm (KPMG), said that if the order of the electricity supplier exceeded the processing capacity, the courier company might be forced to give up these businesses.

On the two day of December 25th and 26th, the British Post Group does not accept express business, and orders on Christmas Eve can only be delivered in December 29th.

At the same time, courier companies are also taking new measures.

UPS and Yodel launched self service in the US, allowing buyers to extract parcels in places such as petrol stations, newsstands and convenience stores, so as to save the cost of distributing addresses for a single address.

Alex Smith-Bingham of Capgemini, a consultancy, said that this Christmas measure could save 25% to 40% of the cost of non food online shopping.

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According to the survey, sales of these commodities increased from 2 billion 100 million pounds last year to 3 billion this year.

DPD, the British Post Group and the French post group, took another measure - 1 hours tracking the express.

At the same time, some electricity supplier companies are taking emergency measures.

Goods purchased from eBay can be picked up from Argos stores. Amazon also signed the same day package service with the newspaper wholesaler Connect group.

Although so many measures have been taken, due to the shortage of drivers and couriers, once the volume of volume is increasing, there may still be problems.

Simon Harper, director of operations at TNT UK, said: "market indications indicate that the shortage of these people may cause unexpected situations."