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Royal Mail Amazon Click and Collect

Royal Mail grants Amazon access to its 'Click & Collect' network in the nick of time for Christmas

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By John McCarthy, Opinion Editor

November 25, 2014 | 2 min read

The Royal Mail has entered a partnership with Amazon granting the e-commerce giant access to its ‘click and collect’ network in the run-up to Christmas.

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Amazon can now offer its customers the option of picking up items from the Royal Mail’s 10,500 Local Collect infrastucture points across the UK. This will bring Amazon's collection points up to 16,000 in the region.

This will increase the ease of which packages can be collected in the Christmas rush upon Royal Mail estimations that 99 per cent of the UK population lives within three miles of a branch.

Royal Mail established its Click and Collect network in August as part of a wider modernisation strategy.

This comes after Royal Mail said, earlier this month in its latest financial report, that Amazon’s delivery service could take two per cent out of the postal firm’s coffers.

The deal will help lessen the financial burden upon the firm which was privatised in October 2013.

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