InPost GroupEurope’s leading e-commerce delivery provider of which it is a part World Relay, has signed a five-year partnership agreement with Vinted, the largest marketplace European peer-to-peer retailer dedicated to second-hand fashion, becoming one of the platform’s shipping partners throughout Europe. The service will be provided under the InPost brand in the UK, Poland and Italy, and under the Mondial Relay brand in France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Portugal and Spain.
The deal will leverage InPost’s extensive international network of 35,000 out-of-home delivery locations, offering Vinted members a cost-effective and efficient option that allows them to pick up their purchases at a time that suits them, rather than waiting at home for delivery. receive packages. As well as being cheaper than home delivery, shipping to smart lockers Automated Parcel Machine (APM) of InPost and the Punto Pack of Mondial Relay, reduces CO2 emissions in cities by up to two thirds, if we compare it with door-to-door services.
A more sustainable and comfortable way to buy and sell second-hand clothes
“This is our first delivery partnership at a European level, encompassing the eight markets in which we are present, and we are sure that this is only the beginning.”, stated the CEO of InPost, Rafał Brzoska. “Our agreement with Vinted demonstrates that InPost has the scale and skills to be a strategic out-of-home delivery partner for businesses operating in markets across Europe, especially those with a focus on out-of-home services. We are happy to be a part of Vinted’s shipping solution”, commented Brzoska.
For its part, Vytautas Atkočaitis, Director of Shipping at Vintedhas explained that “As a company focused on providing the best options for our users to send and receive packages, with a special focus on convenience points and smart lockers, we are pleased to continue our successful partnership with InPost and Mondial Relay in multiple markets in Europe”.
As part of the InPost group, Mondial Relay provides its extensive network of more than 16,000 convenience points in Europe, known as Punto Pack: these are local businesses such as stationery stores, cafeterias, computer stores, etc., to which users can go to pick up and ship your packages. Carine Buàdes, Country Manager of Mondial Relay in Spain, has valued the agreement very positively, assuring that “the more than 3,000 Punto Pack that we have in Spain will be very useful for Spanish users of Vinted”, and highlighted the sustainable nature of a platform like Vinted, which “is committed to the circular economy and is aligned with the sustainability objectives that we also chase in Mondial Relay”.
Vinted is Europe’s largest peer-to-peer online marketplace for second-hand fashion, with more than 50 million members in 13 European countries, as well as the United States and Canada.
