The national postal and parcel network in Australia reported its busiest peak season on record for 2025, handling almost 111 million parcels across the November–December period — an increase of approximately **7.6 % compared with the same stretch last year.
The significant rise in e-commerce deliveries during the festive and year-end sales season reflects continuing consumer demand for online shopping and fast parcel fulfilment. The surge in volumes translated into intense delivery activity, including the service’s highest-ever single delivery day, when more than 3 million parcels were processed on December 8.
Data from the period show that 7.9 million households across the country made online purchases over the two-month peak, with strong year-over-year growth in categories like athleisure, women’s fashion and general retail goods. Western Australia led regional growth, followed by Queensland, South Australia and New South Wales.
Operations teams said the record performance was the result of extensive planning, network capacity investments and round-the-clock logistics execution to keep parcels moving efficiently across urban centres and regional corridors during peak demand. More than 3,000 parcels were delivered per minute on average throughout the busiest days.
Logistics planners and parcel network operators say the results underscore both the enduring strength of e-commerce demand and the operational pressures that peak seasons place on delivery networks, warehousing, sorted flows and last-mile transport. They also highlight the need for continued investment in systems, workforce capacity and infrastructure to sustain performance during future peak periods.
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