NL: Online shopping creates explosive growth parcel deliveries

Dutch consumers shop a lot online. Parcel deliveries have therefore increased in the past years. In 2015, 208 million parcels were delivered by parcel deliverers in the Netherlands, an increase of 11.3% compared to 2014.
The cross-border parcel deliveries to and from the Netherlands grew even faster in 2015. It grew by 12.7% compared to 2014, to 92 million parcels. These numbers come from the ‘Market scan Parcels (Marktscan Pakketten) of the Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM). Over the period of 2012 to 2015 the average profit for domestic parcel deliveries decreased by €0.30 per parcel to €4.23, this is a decrease of 6.7% (News Item ACM, 20 May 2016).
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