Quota will come at “exactly the wrong time.”
Online retailers look set to be clobbered by a new parcel collection cap in the run-up to Christmas.
Royal Mail says that during November and December, daily business mail collections will be limited to “three times average size of a usual collection outside of the peak period.”
"This cap comes at exactly the wrong time for small retailers,” says Andrew Goodacre from the British Independent Retailers Association (BIRA)
“November and December are the months when many businesses do the bulk of their annual trade, and depend on being able to scale up their shipping to meet that demand.
“A fixed multiple on collection capacity does not reflect how seasonal trading actually works for small businesses, and it risks leaving retailers unable to fulfil the orders they have worked all year to win."
Royal Mail’s pre-Christmas parcel collection cap is included in a recently published change to its terms and conditions.
