FROM Emily Hennings @ yourlocalguardian.co.uk
The Royal Mail is launching a trial of the UK’s first ever parcel postboxes.
Small businesses and marketplace sellers will be able to post pre-paid parcels through securely designed parcel postboxes, in the same way that they currently post a letter.
The Royal Mail said it will be the first potential major change of use for the postbox in its last 160 years of existence.
With a wider aperture and secure design for mailing larger items, the parcel postboxes make the posting of larger pre-paid parcels safe and convenient, said the Royal Mail.
The trial launches on Monday in Northampton and Leicester, and will run until November.
Royal Mail will then
