Dunfermline is online Christmas shopping 'hotspot'

[POSTMAN]

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Dunfermline has been ranked as Scotland's number one online Christmas shopping "hotspot".

Royal Mail said the Fife town led in "shopping from the sofa" in this year's online festive rush.

Two billion cards, letters and packets will be delivered by Royal Mail this Christmas around the UK.

New data shows that during November, postal workers in Scotland delivered the most online orders to people living in Dunfermline.

The findings are based on a UK study of about two and a half million deliveries made through Royal Mail Tracked, a service which follows the progress of online orders from collection through to the doorstep.

The top five online shopping hotspots across Scotland

Dunfermline
West Edinburgh
Bathgate
Falkirk
Kilmarnock

Nick Landon, Royal Mail's managing director of fulfilment and packets, said: "Online shopping is now such a key part of the Christmas shopping experience, helping people take out some of the stress of their present purchases by allowing them to shop from their own home.

"As Royal Mail gears up to deliver this year's festive postbag of around two billion items I am delighted that people in Dunfermline are helping us spread the load of internet deliveries by placing their orders well in advance."

On the busiest days this Christmas, Royal Mail will handle about 130 million items, more than double the typical daily average of 59 million cards, letters and packets.

[Broxi51]

It's been so successful that Royal Mail are looking for volunteers from other offices
to come visit Dunfermline and perhaps lend a hand to deliver some parcels...........................and this is before the xmas rush

[P13]

Just as well they have World Class Mail

[oypostie]

But as they only included tracked packets, which as we know are only a very small percentage of the total, how accurate do you think the result is

[fishtank]

The top five online shopping hotspots across Scotland

Dunfermline
West Edinburgh
Bathgate
Falkirk
Kilmarnock

Tell me something i don't know.

[Terryk]

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Nick Landon, Royal Mail's managing director of fulfilment and packets, said: "Online shopping is now such a key part of the Christmas shopping experience, helping people take out some of the stress of their present purchases by allowing them to shop from their own home.

This Mr Landon is a busy bloke - according to the note on the still broken RM website he is also "Director of Customer Experience" !

[Captain Scarlet]

Dunfermline been sha**ed out for a month, was asked if I wanted o/t on sunday to deliver packets.....eh no
Yorks down the isles already, WCM makes no difference as we still have no room and greenock frames only get used by about 2 sorters
Guys sorting packets for 1hr 30 a day easy and we still not got xmas agreement ffs it,s same time every year