Shein and Temu flood La Poste with parcels: this figure is dizzying

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Philippe Wahl, director of the Post Office, made a very surprising statement before the Senate Economic Affairs Committee where he notably returned to the importance of platforms like Shein and Temu on the activity of his company. Let's take stock.

Almost a quarter of the packages

The manager revealed in particular that the Chinese services Shein and Temu represent 22% of the packages handled by La Poste. To put it in context, these packages only represented 5% of the packages managed by the public company's teams five years ago.

He also points out that this share is more significant in France than in the rest of Europe, which underlines the success of these low-cost platforms in our countries. On a broader level, the parcel business now represents more than half of the public company's turnover.

Conversely, sending letters, which is decreasing over time due to the dematerialization of exchanges, will now only account for 15% of sales by the end of 2024 according to the director. Finally, Philippe Wahl believes that the State's compensation for ensuring the public service missions assigned to La Poste is not sufficient and costs the company 2.2 billion. These include press distribution activities and the universal postal service.

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Sites in the sights of France and the EU

As a reminder, this summer we learned of a potential project from the European Commission that would intend to increase import taxes for products sold at low prices by these Chinese platforms.

While under the European Customs Code, packages are not subject to these taxes as long as the declared value is less than 150 euros, the idea would be to simply remove this threshold. Bad news for the services concerned and their customers, but which could please manufacturers who produce in Europe. To find out more, you can always reread our article here.

It should also be noted that the European Union called these services into question in June 2024 and is demanding information to verify that they comply with the rules of the Old Continent in terms of regulations and consumer protection. Moreover, six European countries, including France, have also asked the EU to take measures against these sites, which are sometimes accused of selling defective products, although they firmly deny it.

Are you surprised by the number of parcels that La Poste has to handle from these platforms ? Tell us in the comments.

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