by Walther Ploos van Amstel
The UK parcel delivery market has reached what InPost describes as a tipping point. Rising e-commerce volumes, time-pressured lifestyles, and persistent last-mile inefficiencies have pushed traditional home delivery models to their limits. Consumers report mounting frustration with missed deliveries, theft, delayed parcels, and inconvenient returns. According to InPost’s July 2025 research, more than one-third of …
In Poland, parcel lockers are as standard as ATMs. Some 25,000 units cover the country; at supermarkets, between apartment blocks, on busy street corners. Enter a code, the door clicks open, done. InPost, the yellow icon of Polish e-commerce, turned lockers into national infrastructure. CEO Rafal Brzoska already believed in 2009 that home delivery was …
There are now more than ten thousand parcel pick-up points in the Netherlands. In large cities, the share of online shoppers picking up parcels at parcel points is increasing slightly. In less urban and rural areas, there are initiatives for neighborhood hubs in private homes and parcel lockers in stores and bus stops. Big business …