By Daily Mail ReporterPublished: 20:07 EST, 11 March 2021 | Updated: 20:54 EST, 11 March 2021Royal Mail is beginning a Sunday parcel delivery service with major retailers to tap into the online shopping boom. Royal Mail, which said this week that revenues had soared by £900million to £8.6billion in the past year, delivered 496 million parcels in the last three months of 2020 – an all-time high. Royal Mail will start off with a number of as yet unnamed major retailers before expanding over the year. The size of more than ten football pitches, it will be able to process more than a million parcels a day. At its peak, Royal Mail delivered 11.7 million in one day during its bumper period at the end of last year - almost a third more than its busiest day of the first national lockdown last spring.

Source: The Nation March 12, 2021 02:03 UTC