The organisation has signed a deal to allow customers to choose to send items with Royal Mail's foreign owned and cheaper rivals - Evri of Germany and DPD of France.
Royal Mail loses 360-year grip on delivering parcels from Post Office sitesPost offices will allow people to send parcels with outside couriers, rather than using Royal Mail, for the first time in their 360 year history.
It is likely that Evri and DPD will be able to undercut the prices of traditional Royal Mail services because courier firm staff generally have lower wages and poorer conditions. The move is a hammer blow to the Royal Mail, which faces losing a huge chunk of its business with serious knock-on effects for the nation's postmen
READ MORE: Locals demand Royal Mail move postbox from 'dangerous' slope after 86-year-old man slipped while trying to send a letter Advertisement 'This expanded partnership with DPD and Evri shows how we are disrupting the mails market to offer greater choice for customers and more opportunities for Postmasters as we build a Post Office fit for the future.'
'It's very exciting to have major carriers DPD and Evri as our launch partners for this new service which will be rolled out across branches over the coming months.' Neveed, DPD employee, unveils a new partnership between the Post Office and parcel delivery companies
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