Australia Post Metro responds to growth in online shopping.

 

Australia Post has extended its next-day delivery service, Australia Post Metro, to Adelaide. 

 

The delivery service provides eligible retailers and their customers with speed and more certainty when they shop online, according to the postal company.

 

“The launch is a direct response to the Adelaide community continuing to embrace the online shopping trend with consistent year-on-year e-commerce growth with online purchases 15.2 per cent higher than in 2019 and nearly 500,000 households shopping online in the past year,” Gary Starr, Australia Post’s executive general manager- parcel, post and e-commerce services, said.

 

“We already have some of the country’s largest retailers using the Australia Post Metro service covering the lifestyle, fashion, beauty and FMCG space, with more retailers coming online every month. This new service provides a more agile, flexible delivery option as we head into our busiest time of year,” Starr said.

 

In less than a year since the launch of Australia Post Metro across Australia, more than 2.6 million parcels have been delivered and this is expected to continue growing strongly as demand for this product increases, and new retail partners come on board.