Christmas shopping by numbers

As the value of what we spend online goes up, so do the number of orders and parcels. And all this shopping is heavily skewed towards the Christmas shopping season, with almost one in four of the year's online orders being placed in November and December.

One result of this is that there are more delivery vans than ever before on UK roads.
The number of miles driven by vans and light trucks has soared by 70.4% over the past 20 years, according to the Department of Transport; far outstripping the growth in cars and heavy goods vehicles - up 14% and 2.9% since 1995, respectively.
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