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The Environmental Footprint of Home and Out-of-Home Parcels Delivery

In: Postal Strategies

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  • Muriel Barnéoud

    (La Poste Groupe)

  • Claire Borsenberger

    (La Poste Groupe)

  • Antoine Doussaint

    (La Poste Groupe)

Abstract

Out-of-home parcels deliveries have often described as “greener” than deliveries at home. The argument is based on the empirical but biased observation that fewer vans are mobilized and fewer kilometers traveled by delivery operators when they deliver parcels in parcel lockers or relay points compared to home delivery, “all other things being equal”. But other things are not equal, as recipients need to travel to collect their parcels. Clearly, the balance between the environmental footprint of home and out-of-home delivery solutions depends on the way the consumer would pick up his parcel at the delivery point and one cannot say that one solution is always better than the other. This is why home and out-of-home delivery solutions must not be chosen a priori; a complex analysis is required.

Suggested Citation

  • Muriel Barnéoud & Claire Borsenberger & Antoine Doussaint, 2023. "The Environmental Footprint of Home and Out-of-Home Parcels Delivery," Topics in Regulatory Economics and Policy, in: Pier Luigi Parcu & Timothy J. Brennan & Victor Glass (ed.), Postal Strategies, pages 227-238, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:topchp:978-3-031-25362-1_17
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-25362-1_17
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    1. Leung, Abraham & Lachapelle, Ugo & Burke, Matthew, 2023. "Spatio-temporal analysis of Australia Post parcel locker use during the initial system growth phase in Queensland (2013–2017)," Journal of Transport Geography, Elsevier, vol. 110(C).

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