DHL and Relais Colis are collaborating to launch DHL Click & Bring starting in October 2019. With this new online parcel drop & delivery, DHL Express facilitates the deliveries of individuals and microbusinesses in France and internationally. Each shipping purchase is made on dhlexpress.fr and the customer must then deposit the package in one of the 5,200 Relais Colis located in France for it to be shipped.
DHL Click & Bring is in tune with the continuing growth of e-commerce. In 2018, the e-commerce market reached €92.6bn in revenue in France, a 13.4% increase year-on-year. The market was worth close to €50bn in the first half of 2019 compared to €44bn in the same period in 2018 up 13.6% YoY. In 2019, it’s forecast to pass the €100bn mark.
Online shopping now encompasses all vertical sectors and has become part of French consumer habits – 38.8m people in France made purchases on the internet in 2018, 1.3m more than in 2017. With the majority of items now being purchased online, DHL are claiming that a growing number of French citizens are beginning to sell online as well as buy. In the past 10 years, the rate of consumers using the web to sell goods or services has more than doubled, from 10% in 2008 to 22% in 2018.
Source: DHL
