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

Muriel Barnéoud, Claire Borsenberger () and Antoine Doussaint
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Muriel Barnéoud: La Poste Groupe
Claire Borsenberger: La Poste Groupe
Antoine Doussaint: La Poste Groupe

A chapter in Postal Strategies, 2023, pp 227-238 from Springer

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: E-commerce; Parcels delivery; Environmental footprint; CO2 emissions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-25362-1_17

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