Parcel market in the Netherlands - statistics & facts
Parcel delivery services demonstrated high business potential with ever-increasing market demand throughout the 2000s. Technological advancements and social evolution towards more digitalization paved the way for high potential in the parcel and express services market in the Netherlands and across the globe. Yet, the traditional postal services such as mail delivery are on a systematic decline. In 2019, Germany, Italy, and Poland were the leading markets in Europe when juxtaposing countries for domestic parcel traffic. During that period, the Netherlands had only the fifth-highest domestic parcel traffic in Europe, with roughly 399 million parcels. Since 2012, both inbound and domestic parcel delivery industry in the Netherlands went through a steady growth in total revenue generated. By 2020, total revenue of the parcel industry in the Netherlands almost doubled, generating just under two billion euros from domestic and over 1.6 billion euros from outbound parcel deliveries. Similarly, the parcel volume also doubled during the same period in the Netherlands.
