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Amazon trialling local delivery scheme
01.01.70 | Charlotte Williams
Amazon is reportedly trialling a scheme to deliver parcels which customers can collect from newsagents through a company called Collect+.
The internet giant has been trialling the scheme with items such as books and clothes. It plans to roll it out to over 5,000 shops nationwide, according to the Telegraph.
The scheme is part of an overall plan to help customers collect their orders in a more convenient way, and follows Amazon's locker delivery service, where customers can pick up parcels from dedicated lockers in shopping centres and some Co-operative Food stores.
Customers will also be able to send unwanted items back more easily, according to the newspaper.
The Collect+ delivery scheme is managed by Paypoint, which has a network of 4,900 stores taking delivery of parcels, such as Spar, Costcutter and the Co-operative Group.
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This clearly Amazon seeking new ways of delivery after their rather large number of complaints about the "home delivery services" of
Hermes,DPD, City-Link,Yodel,HDNL, and others.
The service does vary area to area and carrier to carrier and even
within the towns/cities
Whilst this often does not effect the trade, the forums on Amazon UK
some with several hundred and 2 with over a thousand complaints
that things have not arrived,lost,no attemepted delivery or
parcels simply returned to depot often miles away.
There are quite a few request to restart using Royal Mail as they
have a network of pick up points if customer is not in/ However the
price may not be right for Amazon therefore the Collect+ is being
trialled.
Mailorder booksellers should be aware of Royal Mail rollout in
September of leave a parcel with your neighbour if not in service
has been in the news this morning.
Amazon marketplace sellers have been offered the chance to send via
this Hermes Collect+ 3-4 days Delivery from a local shop for some months now. So it not new in that respect.
You book and pay when you send the confirm despatch.
I dont use it as the nearest collection point is 2 miles away on a rather run down Housing estste in a off licence.
Amazon Uk Forums on Amazon.co.uk
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/forum/deals/ref=cm_cd_f_h_dp_t?_encoding=UTF8&cd...
This clearly Amazon seeking new ways of delivery after their rather large number of complaints about the "home delivery services" of
Hermes,DPD, City-Link,Yodel,HDNL, and others.
The service does vary area to area and carrier to carrier and even
within the towns/cities
Whilst this often does not effect the trade, the forums on Amazon UK
some with several hundred and 2 with over a thousand complaints
that things have not arrived,lost,no attemepted delivery or
parcels simply returned to depot often miles away.
There are quite a few request to restart using Royal Mail as they
have a network of pick up points if customer is not in/ However the
price may not be right for Amazon therefore the Collect+ is being
trialled.
Mailorder booksellers should be aware of Royal Mail rollout in
September of leave a parcel with your neighbour if not in service
has been in the news this morning.
Amazon marketplace sellers have been offered the chance to send via
this Hermes Collect+ 3-4 days Delivery from a local shop for some months now. So it not new in that respect.
You book and pay when you send the confirm despatch.
I dont use it as the nearest collection point is 2 miles away on a rather run down Housing estste in a off licence.
Amazon Uk Forums on Amazon.co.uk
================================
http://www.amazon.co.uk/forum/deals/ref=cm_cd_f_h_dp_t?_encoding=UTF8&cd...