Royal Mail to take over thousands of UK convenience stores
The owner of the Royal Mail acquired a share of millions of pounds in another company that will see that thousands of markets are re -branded.
International distribution services (IDS), which is the owner of the mail service, purchased 49 percent of shares in the parcel Company Collect+; Some of the agreement will be called about 8,000 stores Royal mail.
High Street stores will sell mail on the counter and customers can pay bills rather than online.
The agreement, which is worth 43.9 million pounds, has maintained its self-servis kiosks established in some shops next year, as well as the extended opening hours, including weekends and evenings, to send parcels from other carriers and return the normal operations.
In addition, Royal Mail announced that approximately 20,000 temporary workers will hire to increase delivery operations during Christmas.
New positions will spread to two parcel centers, four -seasons parcel sorting center and 37 mail centers throughout the country.
It aims to help Royal Mail to meet seasonal increases covering important shopping activities such as Black Friday, Cyber Monday and Ordinary Shopping and Pre -Christmas shopping.
In particular, 12,000 postal centers will be presented in the UK, 2,000 in Scotland, 600 in Wales and 400th in Northern Ireland and 400.
The Royal Mail will set up four extra seasonal sorting centers in Athestone, Milton Keynes, Northampton and Daventry to help him fulfill delivery.
Collect+, which has a network consisting of more than 14,000 locations consisting of journalists, markets, supermarkets and gas stations, was purchased by PayPoint in 2020.
Paypoint said that IDS’s investment is worth 90 million pounds to the enterprise and set it for future growth.
It follows the decision of IDS’s investment in the parcel network and the decision to reclaim letter delivery.
Royal Mail is expected to abandon second -class letter delivery on Saturdays and change the service to the United States every week since July next July.
IDS was purchased by the Government after the Czech billionaire Daniel Kretinsky’s EP group was first acquired by the EP Group of the Czech billionaire for the first time in foreign ownership.
Mr. Kretinsky has committed to giving a “new start” by focusing on securing the long -term future of postal service and meeting the increasing demand for parcel services.
Alistair Cochrane, General Manager of Royal Mail, said: “The launch of the Royal Mail Shop brand creates a new and improved high street target for all our customers’ parcel needs.
“This investment is one of the ways to make the Royal Mail more appropriate.”
Additional reporting by PA
