Evri Group has announced a £36 million investment programme to expand its UK parcel network ahead of the peak trading season. The Barnsley superhub has received a £4 million small item sorter to improve processing of smaller parcels, including imported goods, with a further £25 million allocated to add a third tier, raising capacity to 5.5 million parcels per day by Christmas 2026.
Upgrades and strategic depot moves are also underway in Avonmouth, Lutterworth, Pen-Y-Bont, Southampton, and Bury St-Edmunds. A new depot in Belfast will improve cross-border delivery between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. Combined investment across these sites totals approximately £7.5 million.
Evri will scale its workforce to more than 30,000 couriers for the festive period, alongside 70 new operational roles. The investment builds on a £50 million upgrade of the ParcelShop and Locker network, now processing 4.4 million parcels daily.
Digital improvements support the network, including enhancements to Evri’s app, which has 2.7 million monthly users and facilitates parcel tracking, delivery preferences and higher first-time delivery rates.
Following the acquisition of Coll-8 in Ireland and the pending merger with DHL eCommerce UK, Evri is set to deliver over one billion parcels and one billion business letters annually.
CEO Martijn de Lange said, “Following a historic year for Evri, with our acquisition of Coll-8 in Ireland and our landmark merger with DHL, which is due to complete imminently, we continue to invest significantly in our operation to ensure we deliver the best possible service to our clients and customers, especially at the busiest time of the year for our industry. We’re on track to become the UK’s premier parcel delivery business and this investment supports our continued growth as we will deliver more than a billion parcels and a billion letters a year globally.”
