2024 Olympics: La Poste and Amazon blocked in gray areas

Customers learned about this through emails received this Thursday, July 18. La Poste and Amazon will coordinate their postal and parcel delivery service during this period Paris 2024 Olympic Games into security perimeters have been established.

Restrictions, arrangements or transfer points, Le Parisien takes into account the measures applicable to your mail and packages in the coming week and on the days of the race.

Shipping is not available in gray areas on Amazon

It’s time for the global e-commerce giant to adapt. In an email sent to all its customers this Thursday, Amazon Indicates that home delivery will not be available for customers living in gray areas where circulation is not possible without Games Pass.

Customers who wish to continue receiving packages are encouraged to prefer Amazon delivery points and lockers.

A single address has finally been created for the Olympic Village for athletes and members of delegations. “To meet increased demand during the Games, Amazon will develop a network of Lockers and collection points in the Paris region,” the online shopping juggernaut said.

Cargo bikes in red zones for La Poste

Mail It will ensure the continuity of services, namely mail and parcel delivery, during the Olympic and Paralympic Games. This may result in certain disruptions for residents of the red and gray zones.

to pour red zones of the capitalLa Poste, which is off limits to motorized vehicles, is confident it will use pedestrian tours or cargo bikes “in accordance with the instructions of the local authorities”.

This may cause delivery times to vary from one day to the next, particularly on race days when certain sectors may be temporarily restricted to traffic.

Offices will close early on July 26

From July 18 to 26, La Poste is not exempt from traffic disruption due to the establishment of a security perimeter. as part of the opening ceremony. “Due to transport restrictions imposed by local authorities, delivery of mail and parcels to individuals may be disrupted,” the company acknowledges.

In the gray zone, it is forbidden to circulate even for pedestrians if they don’t have Games Pass, parcel delivery will be more complicated. Deliveries and delivery vehicles will not be able to go to individual homes. Instead, parcels will be “delivered in the network of post offices, apple relays and Chronopost and DPD France agencies,” La Poste said.

offices are located In the red zones of Paris It will remain accessible to all pedestrians without the need for a Games Pass. However, fourteen of them will be closed at 13:00 on July 26 at the request of the authorities. These are the Grande-Armée, Victor-Hugo, Trocadéro, Rivoli, Châtelet, Beaugrenelle, Dupleix, Rive-Gauche, Bastille, Odéon, Champ-de-Mars, Rodin, Colisée and Ecole-Militaire offices.

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