Royal Mail has announced plans for the UK's first-ever parcel postboxes.
The company said 1,400 of the new postboxes would be installed across the country in more than 30 locations over a six-month period, starting in August.
Locations will include Aberdeen, Belfast, Birmingham, Cardiff and Leeds.
Royal Mail is a postal service and courier company in the United Kingdom. Tracking the packages from United Kingdom. Parcel force is now a worldwide courier and logistics service trading under the umbrella of Royal Mail Group Ltd and based in the United Kingdom. Following a successful trial in 2018, Royal Mail is now set to introduce the UK’s first ever parcel postboxes in locations across the UK.
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Customers will be able to post parcels in the same way that they currently post a letter, provided that postage has been pre-paid using Royal Mail's own online labelling service.
Existing letter postboxes were introduced in the 1850s and Royal Mail said the new move represented the first major change in the system since then.
'The launch of parcel postboxes is also one of the biggest innovations in parcels since the launch of Parcel Post in 1883,' it added.
The rollout follows a successful trial of the idea last year.
Royal Mail will be converting existing meter boxes, which it said had a larger aperture and a secure design.
Mark Street, head of campaigns at Royal Mail, said: 'We hope that the wider roll-out gives added flexibility to online sellers who might be running a business in their spare time and not keeping regular office hours.'
People will also be able to return parcels using the system, as long as they have a Royal Mail barcode attached.
The full list of locations is:
- Leeds
- Newcastle & Tyneside
- Sheffield
- Warrington
- Swindon
- Nottingham
- Romford
- Manchester
- Preston
- London Central
- Birmingham
- Chelmsford
- Chester
- Greenford
- Glasgow
- Edinburgh
- Bristol
- Croydon
- Poole
- Aberdeen
- Southampton
- Belfast
- Peterborough
- Plymouth
- Cardiff
- Norwich
- Swansea
- Bournemouth
- Exeter
- Truro
- Inverness
- Carlisle
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