Shipment of Mail Order Goods to Europe, Russia Up in 2011
Last year, the national postal service Eesti Post shipped 25 percent more mail order goods to Russia and Europe than in 2010.
The company said in a statement that the increase in the total figure of mail order parcels can be attributed to the rapidly developing international e-commerce; increasing cooperation between postal services of different nations; and the notion that ordering goods online has become more risk free, because many sellers provide the option of returning products without any additional shipping costs for the buyer.
Last year, the amount of mail order parcels shipped from Estonia to Germany increased the most - 40 percent. It was followed by Norway (30 percent) and Finland (15 percent), Eesti Post said.
Most incoming mail order parcels were from the US, Germany, Finland, China and Hong Kong – with the amount of orders from the two Asian countries increasing by almost 50 percent in 2011.
Ingrid Teesalu