{"id":162641,"date":"2019-12-04T22:02:42","date_gmt":"2019-12-04T22:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/dpd-records-biggest-ever-cyber-weekend\/"},"modified":"2021-08-12T14:05:44","modified_gmt":"2021-08-12T14:05:44","slug":"dpd-records-biggest-ever-cyber-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/dpd-records-biggest-ever-cyber-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"DPD records biggest ever Cyber Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DPD UK, the UK's biggest domestic parcel carrier, said it had its busiest ever Cyber Weekend with <strong>parcel volumes up 13% on last year.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The company experienced r<strong>ecord volumes of parcels in its four giant, automated sorting hubs<\/strong> each night in the week running up to Black Friday and right through the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>During the weekend it\u00a0had a record number of delivery vans on the road and the company said it had <strong>recruited a significant number of new permanent drivers<\/strong> during the year in preparation for Black Friday\/Cyber Weekend. It also said its\u00a0growing fleet of electric vehicles made a significant contribution to the landmark effort.<\/p>\n<p>Delivery <strong>volume is now expected to drop before picking up again from 16 December<\/strong> following the last major weekend of online Christmas shopping.<\/p>\n<p>Dwain McDonald, DPD UK's CEO, praised his team: \"It has been an incredible weekend. The whole team has been absolutely amazing. We have maintained our very high service standard, despite record volumes and that is something everyone should be very proud of. <strong>We start planning for Peak in January and we look at every single aspect of the whole process<\/strong>, but when it all comes together it is still a great achievement for everyone involved.<\/p>\n<p>\"Black Friday and Cyber Weekend are here to stay, and we fully accept that.\u00a0 <strong>We have had to adapt our plans significantly in recent years,<\/strong> but we work incredibly hard with our retail customers to ensure we can give them the same great service in November and December as we do over the rest of the year.\"<\/p>\n<p>Just before Black Friday, the company won <strong>two separate awards for its sustainable delivery strategy<\/strong>. First it collected a coveted <em>Green Apple Environment Award<\/em> for environmental best practice at a ceremony at the House of Commons, followed a couple of days later by a \"<em>Fleet Heroes\"<\/em>\u00a0award from the Energy Saving Trust.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/consumers-more-likely-to-shop-with-brands-with-sustainable-packaging\/\">A recent consumer study of online fashion shoppers<\/a> across the UK, US, France &amp; Germany by <strong>TheIndustry.fashion in partnership with Avery Dennison<\/strong> found that 54% of consumers were more likely to shop with a brand or retailer that offered sustainable delivery and packaging over one which did not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":136426,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10494],"tags":[4700,15352,11112,15560,21,10714],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>DPD records biggest ever Cyber Weekend - TheIndustry.fashion<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"DPD UK, the UK&#039;s biggest domestic parcel carrier, said it had its busiest ever Cyber Weekend with parcel volumes up 13% on last year.\u00a0 The company\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/dpd-records-biggest-ever-cyber-weekend\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"DPD records biggest ever Cyber Weekend - TheIndustry.fashion\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"DPD UK, the UK&#039;s biggest domestic parcel carrier, said it had its busiest ever Cyber Weekend with parcel volumes up 13% on last year.\u00a0 The company\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/dpd-records-biggest-ever-cyber-weekend\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"TheIndustry.fashion\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/theindustryfashion\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-12-04T22:02:42+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-08-12T14:05:44+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Electric-DPD-Westminster-with-depot-vehicles-5.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"580\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"386\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Lauretta Roberts\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@theindustryfash\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@theindustryfash\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Lauretta Roberts\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Estimated reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/dpd-records-biggest-ever-cyber-weekend\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/dpd-records-biggest-ever-cyber-weekend\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Lauretta Roberts\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/#\/schema\/person\/85b04a16eba8c6cd7a9534c5a4262b89\"},\"headline\":\"DPD records biggest ever Cyber Weekend\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-12-04T22:02:42+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-08-12T14:05:44+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/dpd-records-biggest-ever-cyber-weekend\/\"},\"wordCount\":367,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/#organization\"},\"keywords\":[\"Black Friday\",\"Christmas 2019\",\"Cyber Monday\",\"DPD UK\",\"E-commerce\",\"Logistics\"],\"articleSection\":[\"News &amp; 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