To cope with an in-bound freight increase of 25%, DHL Express has hired an additional 10 couriers to cope with the demand to deliver Christmas parcels.
DHL Express anticipates it will deliver 22.6 parcels per minute over the Christmas period all over New Zealand, an increase from seven parcels per minute in 2012, and 17.8 last year.
That’s one delivery every 2.6 seconds says DHL Express.
The company says its Christmas delivery period is from the second week in October until mid December.
In-bound deliveries into New Zealand are up a quarter (24.9%) on 2013.
As a result, DHL added 10 couriers to it’s staff over the Christmas period.
The top five countries of origin where the Kiwi-bound Christmas presents are coming from include Australia, the US, China, the U.K, and Hong Kong.
