The Correos Group is willing to give a radical turn to its business and undertake a deep transformation and diversification that responds to the current demand for citizens' services, focused on the parcel and the rapid and effective delivery of merchandise of all kinds and size, a decision that will end up cornering the traditional postal business, and that in front of Amazon or Aliexpress, sometimes allies and other clear competitors.The spectacular structure of the public company participated in 51% by the State Society of Industrial Participations (SEPI), with 2.400 offices, 33.000 distributors, more than 13.000 vehicles, numerous logistics centers, public support money and important financial alliances and with insurers, from Santander Bank to Mapfre, through Bankinter.

Amazon's landing in Spain has contributed to this turn, which began to occur just two years ago and at the beginning shyly, but to which in the future it will contribute a rain of millions.Thus, the public company has resorted to the dynamic acquisition system, a totally electronic process, which allows you to manage hundreds of limited and repetitive duration contracts and all the amounts to become the Spanish public Amazon or at least win the 'last mile'to the American giant.In this way, on January 7, the Public Procurement Platform advertised the tender of a contract valued at 194.5 million, the most large third until the date of the Correos Group, to give technological, management and consultation coverage to consultdifferent activities "that allow responding to business needs" and the integration of commercial products and market solutions in the corporate environment of the group.

A few months before two other macrocontrats were formalized.In the most recent, Express Correos, an urgent post -pacel account, put on the table a contract valued at 506.3 million euros, for the electronic and open procedure, for the collection, transport and distribution of parcels in 'Last mile', key in electronic commerce, both proper and alien, and that will serve to guarantee rapid delivery, Amazon's main commitment.In April 2021, the largest contract of the group until now -513 million- began to award the objective that any carrier can facilitate their service, to cover all the routes that are not of 'last mile'.Correos distributed about 135 million packages in 2021.

But can Correos, with a 56 template.000 workers, to become a public Amazon?The group has already undertaken initiatives in all areas in which the American multinational works, in some more modestly, such as the development of a large electronic commerce platform, although it can become a project totally open to third parties and others in othersMuch more determined, such as starting to manage more and more logistics centers or express emails, the urgent messaging service that treats the distribution giants, and the internalization of their activity -in principle Portugal and Asia -.

Last April, the leader of the most country, Íñigo Errejón, raised the need for a law, which aimsstarting from the email and telegraph structure, which also took into account small businesses, pressed, according to him, by the American giant.Ten months later, Errejón's proposal, possibly without knowing it, begins to take very firm steps in some of the multiple legs of the business, while in others they are somewhat slower.

Correos has almost 200 million on the table to achieve its digital consolidation, key to future activities, and the reformulation and design of ecommerce platforms and group apps.The technical document, which extends during 170 folios, divides these needs into three categories, six subcategories and 12 substubcategories, ranging from the proposal of new businesses, to the development of trade apps, technological projects, the integration of commercial products and solutions ofmanagement and consulting, among others.All these services will be hired over the next four years by means of a dynamic acquisition system.

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The public company launched in mid -2019, an online platform, which called Market Correos, through which local producers, SMEs and freelancers could send their items to any point in Spain using the extensive distribution network of the companypublic.The project, which allows companies to enter other 'Marketplace' and create online stores and apps and that already has more than 1.200 affiliates, aimed to facilitate the development of emptied Spain and allow small business digitalization and trade.

This impulse to 'ecommerce', which has as complement the 4.300 ECYPAQ package mailboxes distributed throughout the national territory, will have an important development in the coming years, as stated in the technical sheet, which highlights the telematic relationship of the Correos group with a large number of external entities."The growth of electronic commerce attached to the need for diversification of our business - through the creation of new services to consume by customers - makes necessary not only that the response times against possible integrations -terceros or with internal applications- must be each timebetter and more effective, "he says.

Companies interested in developing these business, under the epigraph, technological solutions for integrations with third parties, must prove domain and work in applications such as Magento, Prestashop, Wooocommerce and Shopify, the four main solutions of 'Ecommerce'.As for logistics, Correos announced only a few days.The initiative has been accompanied by the opening of two new logistics platforms, one in Illescas (Madrid) and another in San Esteve Sesrovires (Barcelona).

The Correos Group is willing to become the Spanish logistics referent and according to the contract will increase the number of stores for the development of this business with the intention of managing more.Precisely its Amazon competitor, which has a fixed staff of 15.000 workers, has taken impulse to launch new logistics centers, which serve to boost the 'last mile' of the orders process, with the opening of new platforms in Madrid Capital, Móstoles and Coslada, and some, such as Zaragoza, Zaragoza,that will start working this year.For its part, the Spanish public company also bets on the 'Last Mile', a key to online trade, which demands rapid and nulos costs, or minimum, at the time of delivery.

To the public company that manages the coupons of the ONCE, acts as a bank office, offers cheese, wine and honey in its mail emails, sells Mapfre insurance and is responsible for the processing of various rates and fertilizers of the administrations, which has already alreadyReceived some competition notices, which watches their commercial offers to large clients to prevent distortions in the sector, needs to bet on new activities to survive with dignity and not tied to subsidies.The transformation and diversification of the business and digitalization can be key so that the entity does not become a ballast.