UK delivery company Evri has become the latest firm to enable customers to pick up and drop off parcels via the Post Office network.

Initially Evri’s customers will be able to pick up and drop off parcels at 50 Post Office locations around the UK before Christmas. If this goes well then this might be rolled out to all 11,500 branches across the UK in time.

Evri joins DPD, DHL Express and Amazon who have allowed customers to pick up and drop off parcels in the network beginning this year. Prior to 2022, only Royal Mail customers could do so.

Nick Read, Post Office’s chief executive said, “Last January we had no carrier partnerships, and we’ve now grown our Click and Collect capabilities fivefold, which is a real testament to the size and reach of the Post Office network and the accessibility it affords consumers.”

Read concluded : “We’re delighted to be working with Evri, an established and successful company, to expand the wide range of parcel services that we can offer customers.

“Last January we had no carrier partnerships, and we’ve now grown our Click and Collect capabilities fivefold, which is a real testament to the size and reach of the Post Office network and the accessibility it affords consumers.”

Martijn De Lange, Evri’s chief executive, said: “Our ParcelShops are key in our commitment to offering consumers both convenience and choice, enabling them to send, return and collect parcels at a time and place that suits them.

“These new locations will complement our existing nationwide network of 10,000-plus locations and give Post Office customers a new fast, reliable and cost-effective way to send and receive their parcels.”