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When Norway closed in March, the number of postal parcels soared. Since then, it has only gotten worse.
Norway Post delivers two million packages every week. It is a new record. Photo: Ingeborg Moe
The distance is impeccable in the queue in front of the parcel delivery at Tåsensenteret in Oslo. But it is long and slow.
This is how it happens almost everywhere people pick up their packages daily: Norway Post delivers two million packages every week, and has been doing so for a while.
– We have never experienced this before, says Posten press manager Kenneth Tjønndal Pettersen.
By comparison, it was a new record when they delivered 3.5 million packages in hele disembarkri 2015.
Three waves
But it’s not just the Christmas fever that has brought the packing tower up. By the time Norway closed in March, e-commerce rose to whole new levels. And it stayed there.
– The increase in online shopping since last year is well over 40 percent, says Pettersen, who is used to the increase in the “package wave” in connection with Black Week and Black Friday.
This year, this shopping party was added to an online store that had already reached a record high. AND so Christmas fever is coming.
– There will also be an additional number of Christmas packages this year, because many cannot visit and deliver the products, says Pettersen.
Powerful reset
The three “packet waves” have led to a major update in various parts of Norway Post. Just in connection with Black Week, they have brought 600 more people to terminals and courier wagons. They have established 120 new delivery points in the form of various stores and 24-hour parcel boxes that can be opened with a mobile phone. In addition, the terminals have been updated, while several stores have increased their service capacity.
Many packages also end up in the old mailbox – Pettersen estimates that it tripled from last year.
– Will this continue?
– It’s hard to predict the future, and we didn’t see it coming at all in March, he says, but remember that the Norway Post literally came out one winter night earlier.
– So we are the ones who have to deal with the practical consequences of changing purchasing habits.
Follow in time
In any case, you can reassure those who are concerned about whether the Christmas present will arrive on Christmas Eve with the cohort – wait a couple of days late, but what ships a week before Christmas Eve will arrive.
– And the chaos in the postal stores?
– It is extremely important that people collect their packages and do not use the store as a warehouse. Some of them have little space and are very vulnerable.
