Lyon: La Poste optimizes urban logistics to tackle the holiday season

Inaugurated on November 6, 2026, and the details of which were revealed on November 10, this facility has been operational since spring. It now centralizes Colissimo shipments destined for the two cities.

An investment of 2 million euros was made for this 4,400-square-meter building, separate from La Poste’s national industrial and logistics modernization plan, which amounts to 450 million euros.

A network of twenty electric cargo bike routes, based in Confluence, complements the one hundred delivery routes covering Lyon and Villeurbanne. La Poste emphasizes that all last-mile deliveries are made by electric vehicles.

This strategy adapts to the constraints of urban areas, where traffic and deliveries require great flexibility. Cargo bikes supplement the fleet of delivery vehicles, allowing adaptation to the specific features of each neighborhood.

The operator indicates a carbon footprint of 258 grams of CO₂ per Colissimo package, a figure communicated by La Poste and not from an independent measurement.

The new agency serves approximately 455,000 residents and has an extensive network of 66 points of contact, 260 Pick Up relay points, and 70 PickMe neighbor relay points, offering multiple out-of-home pickup options.

A high-performance sorting system allows packages to be read from different angles, improving their traceability. Three other machines facilitate the loading and unloading of trailers, while storage bags reduce handling.

La Poste presents these improvements as a way to reduce work-related pain and the risk of musculoskeletal disorders, although the actual impact on employee working conditions will also depend on the organization of routes and workload.

With a processing capacity of 15,000 packages per day, the Lyon agency has a comfortable margin before reaching its theoretical maximum of 30,000 packages.