Allegro and InPost announce strategic partnership

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Parcels will be delivered to one of 1100 InPost Parcel Machines® the very next day after posting, while registered letters will be delivered by courier to hand within 3 days of posting. For years, InPost employees have been paid more for delivering a letter directly to the recipient's address, and they are also required to attempt to do so twice. If advised, the letter will be waiting at one of the 8,300 customer service points across Poland. The route of a parcel to Paczkomaty® InPost as well as a registered letter can be Follow on inpost.pl . All Parcel Machines® are equipped with payment card readers to ensure that you can collect your parcel on delivery.

Every seller on Allegro can now easily, without formalities or any fees, add both product delivery options to their auctions. Simply log in to the free Parcel Manager with your Allegro details. The application also allows for easy generation of address labels and efficient management of shipments.

"The upcoming festive shopping season is always a big challenge for e-tailers when it comes to organising product deliveries. Allegro and InPost meet the expectations of both e-retailers and e-consumers. Thanks to our strategic cooperation, we offer the absolute cheapest forms of delivery - to Paczkomaty ® InPost or as a registered letter. On the part of InPost, we guarantee full security of shipments, traceability and fast delivery. As many as 98% of parcels sent to Paczkomaty ® InPost arrives the day after posting, while over 92% of registered letters are delivered within D+3. These rates are significantly higher than those of the designated operator." - comments Rafał Brzoska, CEO of InPost.

„ Our aim is to provide sellers with the best tools to sell and buyers with low-cost, convenient and proven solutions to make shopping on the Allegro platform even better. U services offered jointly by Allegro and InPost are just such a solution - says Przemyslaw Budkowski, VP Marketplaces at Naspers. - The Polish e-commerce market, according to various estimates, is growing at around 14 - 15% per year. It could grow faster if barriers to growth were removed. The research company Gemius, for example, reports that 83% of Internet users in Poland would buy more online if there was a free return option and 24% do not return goods in order not to pay for shipping. According to the same survey, 45% of Poles buying online have received goods that were not as expected one or two times. As many as 38% of these respondents have not chosen to use the option to return a product to an e-shop. For almost a quarter of them, the need to bear the shipping costs of the returned goods proved to be an obstacle . Thanks to the cooperation between Allegro and InPost, these problems may become a thing of the past, as buyers will be able to take advantage of cheap delivery and free returns on Poland's largest shopping platform. . This will be particularly important after the change in the rules on returns of goods bought at a distance after 25 December 2014."

According to analyses, e-tailers who do not offer the "click and collect" option, of which Parcelcels® InPost is the most perfect version, run a significant risk of not increasing online sales. 1 . Limited delivery options are the reason for abandonment for nearly ¾ of shoppers (73%).

InPost parcel machines

InPost parcel machines® are appreciated by both retailers and consumers worldwide. They are distinguished by innovation and the use of state-of-the-art technical solutions . Thanks to the revolutionary service QuickZwroty.co.uk, online shoppers can exchange or return goods to an e-retailer for free in one place.

Delivery via Paczkomat® InPost is currently enabled by nearly 5,000 e-shops operating under their own domain and 30,000 sellers offering their products on Allegro. According to a study conducted by the Integer.pl Group, a total of 12 million users already use Paczkomaty® InPost, and 98% of parcels are ready for collection within 24 hours of posting. As many as 98% of users declare their willingness to use the service again, and 97% of them recommend them to their friends. As the statistics show, nearly 60% of products are collected from the innovative terminals outside the standard opening hours of the service outlets.

In 2013, the number of courier deliveries served by InPost amounted to around 240 million items, while in 2014 this level increased to an average of 25 million items per month. Letters and parcels delivered by InPost are sequenced in a modern 10,000 m2 sorting facility, which handles up to 1.2 million parcels per day thanks to ultra-modern sorters.