UK Parcel Market Trends in the Pre- and Post-COVID Environment: An Initial Assessment

Catherine Cazals (), Thierry Magnac, Jonathan Pope and Soterios Soteri
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Catherine Cazals: University of Toulouse
Jonathan Pope: Royal Mail Group
Soterios Soteri: Royal Mail Group

A chapter in Postal Strategies, 2023, pp 313-326 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Due to the COVID crisis, the parcel market has undergone a significant increase in volumes over the last two years. Postal operators are facing a challenge in their organization to cope with this change. Therefore, understanding parcel market key trends and the magnitude of the post-COVID uplift in volumes play an important role in terms of influencing both short and long-term business decisions. In this paper, we examine domestic UK parcel volumes prior to and during the COVID crisis to assess the extent to which there has been a structural change in the demand for parcels. In particular, we examine the properties of an econometric time series model that accounts for parcel volume movements prior to COVID related effects, how this model performed during the pre-COVID crises and then go on to re-estimate the model using Google mobility data to better account for COVID-related impacts. By comparing the properties of the within-sample model predictions we obtain estimates of the extent to which COVID has impacted domestic UK parcel volumes.

Keywords: COVID; UK parcel market; Time series model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-25362-1_23

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