Zásilkovna to compete directly with Czech post office

by   CIJ iDesk I
2019-02-22   10:35
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Zásilkovna, which operates a network of pick-up points for e-shop customers, plans to begin competing with the post office by handling non-commercial packages as well. "Until now you could pick up goods purchased from an on-line store," the company's owner Simona Kijonková told Hospodářské noviny. "Now you'll be able to send anything to anyone." HN reports that Zasilkovna current has 1,700 pick-up points across central and Eastern Europe, with 1,500 of them in the Czech Republic. Most of them are small shops that have franchise agreements and their numbers should rise to 3,000 by the end of 2019. The fact that this is roughly the number of post offices there are in the Czech Republic is no coincidence. "The goal is to reach the same level as the post office and to offer customers and alternative," says Kijonková. This will take some work. Her company handled 11 million packages last year. Česká pošta handled more than 40 million. But it wouldn't say how much more "because of competition on the packages market."