DHL joins Post Office to deliver parcels | Business

The Post Office is pressing ahead with expanding its click-and-collect services to online shoppers by teaming up with DHL, the German logistics company.

DHL Express UK will deliver parcels directly to Post Office branches for the public to pick up as part of its service point network. It has 1,300 service points in the UK.

The service will be tested at Post Offices in Northern Ireland before rolling out to more than 1,000 branches throughout Britain next year.

It is the third contract that the Post Office has secured with a big carrier since ending its exclusive parcelhandling relationship with Royal Mail. Since then it has struck deals with DPD — Britain’s second largest van delivery company, owned by La Poste — as well as