La Poste puts the package on deliveries

La Poste wants to double its deliveries with its Colissimo subsidiary. The public group processed nearly 500 million packages this year. It must be said that as the French buy more and more on the internet, the delivery business is working very well, better than expected. Confinements, but also teleworking encourage receiving orders at home. Result: with the crisis, La Poste considers that it has “three years of growth in one”.

And to further develop this segment, La Poste plans to invest heavily: 450 million euros over four years. This is almost as much as what it has already put in recent years in its sorting and distribution centers. This new influx of money should finance the creation of new logistics platforms (in the East, the West, the South-East and the South-West) and also make it possible to modernize and create a hundred sites and smaller warehouses throughout the territory. Colissimo wants to be able to deliver almost all of France in one day.

According to La Poste, this investment should create at least 500 direct jobs. Notably because it will reduce its recourse to subcontracting. Today, in fact, almost one in four parcels delivered by La Poste is delivered via a subcontractor. These investments must also make it possible to maintain existing positions, says the group, factors in particular, which will switch to parcel distribution.

The web giant Amazon is the first competitor but it is also the first customer of La Poste. This means that a large portion of Amazon packages are transported by yellow trucks. The public company is also benefiting from the growth of numerous e-commerce platforms such as Cdiscount or La Redoute, which call on them. In France, Colissimo is number one in parcel delivery. The brand is particularly well placed to ensure short trips, so-called “last mile”, which are often the most complicated to perform, as they are often done in congested areas, such as in the heart of cities.