Extra parcel depot open after surge in online shopping

For the first time, the company is expected to handle more than 100,000 parcels in one week in the run-up to Christmas Day.

To cope with demand, which is expected to peak in the final week before Christmas, Jersey Post has opened a larger collection depot opposite its headquarters in the Rue des Prés trading estate which is open seven days a week.

Last week alone the company sorted 83,000 parcels – the equivalent of almost two per household – and says that it expects to deliver 380,000 packages throughout the whole of December, compared to 320,000 during the same period last year.

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