Hermes delivers its largest ever peak season

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Hermes UK, the consumer delivery specialist, has experienced its biggest peak season to date, which included the busiest day in the company’s history.

The organization successfully handled in excess of 49.1 million parcels during December 2019 alone – significantly up from 39.5 million in December 2018.


The milestone day fell on December 5, when the company processed 2.1 million parcels, beating 2018’s total of 1.9 million items handled in a single day. The first week in December was also a record week which saw the company deliver 13.9 million parcels and operate almost 1,000 client collections in just one day.

In order to prepare for peak 2019 Hermes had implemented the largest peak capacity uplift in the industry, across all hubs, enabling its network to process over two million parcels a day.

An additional 1,000 trailers and 3,200 scanning devices were also acquired and 560 drivers, 7,000 couriers and 28 peak managers joined existing teams to help provide support.

Martijn de Lange, CEO at Hermes UK, said, “We started planning at the beginning of the year, working with our longstanding and committed retail clients to provide a collaborative, flexible and scalable service. Our ongoing investment into developing our infrastructure and proposition, supported by some industry leading new products and services, also meant that this year we were able to further enhance the customer experience, providing strong communication and added assurance and convenience.”

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Yeah when they mean delivered do they mean launched over whatever gate the downtrodden courier seems fit to chuck it over or what ever front door step looks as though its fit to sit on all day