In January this year, Russians sent more than 1.3 million packages; This represents a 22% increase compared to the same period last year. These statistics were provided to socialbites.ca by the company SDEK.
Moscow has traditionally been the leader in shipment volume, with more than 200 thousand packages sent and accounting for 13% of the entire Russian flow. However, the largest increase in activity was observed in cities such as Volgograd (38%), Krasnoyarsk (31%), Perm (29%), Novosibirsk (25%) and the capital itself (26%). This fact shows that online shopping and distance trading culture is rapidly gaining popularity throughout the country.
As the number of items increased, their average weight also changed. There was a 13% increase in the number of parcels up to 18 kg compared to the previous year. Such heavy cargo was sent especially by residents of Tyumen (up 28%), Krasnoyarsk (26%), Novosibirsk (23%), Perm (17%) and Chelyabinsk (16%).
At the same time, packages without weight restrictions were most actively sent from Volgograd (33%), Omsk (30%) and Yekaterinburg (15.4%).
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