{"id":8403,"date":"2014-09-08T17:04:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-08T22:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=8403"},"modified":"2014-09-08T17:04:26","modified_gmt":"2014-09-08T22:04:26","slug":"royal-mail-expands-its-click-and-connect-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2014\/09\/08\/royal-mail-expands-its-click-and-connect-network\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal Mail Expands Its &#8216;Click and Connect&#8217; Network"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Royal Mail expands its \u2018click and collect\u2019 network<\/h2>\n<p><time class=\"pubdate\" datetime=\"2014-09-08T19:29:00.000Z\">9\/8\/14<\/time><\/p>\n<figure>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/liteblue.usps.gov\/news\/link\/2014\/09sep\/images\/news09s3.jpg\" alt=\"Royal Mail\" width=\"220\" height=\"248\" \/><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>More shoppers in the United Kingdom can now collect their Internet purchases from a local Post Office \u2014 another example of how posts around the world are changing to keep up with the boom in online retailing.<\/p>\n<p>Royal Mail, the U.K. postal service, recently<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.myroyalmail.com\/news\/2014\/08\/local-collect-expanded\" target=\"_blank\"><em>expanded<\/em><\/a><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.royalmailgroup.com\/royal-mail-and-post-office-announce-launch-uk%E2%80%99s-largest-%E2%80%98click-and-collect%E2%80%99-network\" target=\"_blank\"><em>local collect service<\/em><\/a><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>to include 20,000 small businesses.<\/p>\n<p>These retailers will be able to offer collection points at about 10,500 Post Office branches \u2014 the largest \u201cclick and collect\u201d network in the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRoyal Mail is enabling shoppers to have greater control over the delivery of their items. Home shoppers already trust us more than any other national parcels carrier to deliver their online orders,\u201d said Nick Landon, managing director of Royal Mail Parcels.<\/p>\n<p>In the United States, the Postal Service offers<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usps.com\/business\/add-extra-services.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Hold for Pickup<\/a>,<\/em><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>which allows customers to designate a Post Office where they would like their shipments held.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Royal Mail expands its \u2018click and collect\u2019 network 9\/8\/14 More shoppers in the United Kingdom can now collect their Internet purchases from a local Post Office \u2014 another example of how posts around the world are changing to keep up with the boom in online retailing. Royal Mail, the U.K. postal service, recently\u00a0expanded\u00a0its local collect [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8404,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-usps-new-bytes","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8405,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8403\/revisions\/8405"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}