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Amazon to offer click and collect service at Post Offices

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Updated on 25 November 2014 | 5 Comments

Collect Amazon purchases from your local Post Office.

Amazon is launching a click and collect service at 10,500 Post Offices across the country.

Shoppers can avoid the dreaded 'missed delivery' slip in the run-up to Christmas by sending online purchases to their local Post Office. 

You'll need ID when picking up your package, while you'll also be charged for delivery unless you're and Amazon Prime member. 

Amazon said the new arrangement would make picking up deliveries much more efficient. Just last week the Royal Mail warned that Amazon's delivery service presented a threat to its own delivery growth.

Last month Amazon launched a same-day delivery service of its own, with plans to test out unmanned delivery drones in Cambridge.

Would you use this service? Tell us in the comments below.

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  • 26 November 2014

    I'm at work when my local post office is open, so no good to me. I'll stick to leaving it with a neighbour.

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  • 25 November 2014

    I tell them to leave stuff in the box by my door. No problem. Can't wait to see these unmanned drones in action :o)

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  • 25 November 2014

    Great idea. The Post Office has a large secure network. The investment in dedicated counters is a bit late though. Whatever happened to the secure box in the front garden trial?

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