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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11459
SECTORAL POLICIES / (ae) digital

Parcel delivery costs damage e-commerce

Brussels, 22/12/2015 (Agence Europe) - High prices and inefficient cross-border parcel delivery services are putting people off from purchasing or selling online. This was revealed in two documents published on Tuesday 22 December by the European Commission, in the context of its strategy for a digital single market.

The first study was carried out by the University of St Louis and demonstrates that it can cost much more to send a parcel or letter in another European Union country than...