The Green Delivery Model
Benefits:
about 11 million passages saved and about 2 million km avoided
avoided emissions of 244 tonnes CO2eq and 866 kg of air contaminants
each parcel delivered avoided the emission of 15.5 grams of CO2eq and air contaminants
Through the “Green Delivery” delivery model, the Poste Italiane Group has made a proximity network available to the territory which, on the one hand, guarantees greater flexibility for customers and on the other, generates environmental benefits.
Poste Italiane customers, in fact, can make use of both the PuntoPoste network (consisting of more than 15,700 pick-up points such as tobacconists, bars, stationers, newsagents, Kipoint shops, Carrefour and API service stations) and the Post Office network for the delivery of parcels, as an alternative to home delivery.
This delivery model also allows for greater efficiency in Poste Italiane’s logistics as more parcels can be delivered to a single collection point, thus limiting the number of pick-ups and fleet movements.
In the course of 2023, through the PuntoPoste network and Post Offices, around 11 million parcel deliveries could be avoided, resulting in savings around 2 million kilometres by the Italian Post Office fleet.
The increase in the number of journeys avoided and the resulting kilometres saved compared to the previous year is the result of the significant growth in volumes handled through the PuntoPoste network and Post Offices, and thus the efficiency of the “Green Delivery” model. In fact, through the capillarity of its postal networks, the Group currently manages to cover 95% of the population within a 5-minute radius.
In addition, there was also a considerable increase in the number of electric vehicles in the Group’s fleet in 2023, enabling the “Green Delivery” model to achieve positive performance in terms of avoided emissions and air pollutants.
In fact, the journeys saved and kilometres avoided thanks to the Green Delivery model avoided the emission of 244 tonnes of CO2e and 866 kg of air pollutants into the atmosphere (i.e. COVNM, NH3, SO2, NOx, PM10, PM2,5).
In particular, each parcel delivered through the Green Delivery model resulted in a saving in CO2e emissions and air contaminants of approximately 15.5 grams.