A major £2million processing hub is to open today (Monday).

The site will be a mail processing hub for ecommerce and specialist mail services firm The Delivery Group.

The site, in Aylesford, will comprise of 25,000 sq-fit of warehouse space, purpose-built by the company and housing more than 50 staff.

Based in Warrington, Cheshire, the Delivery Group says it expects 100,000 packages to be processed each month.

Steve Stokes, CEO, of the Delivery Group, said: “We move 1.6m items a month of tracked and untracked mail and parcels both domestically and internationally.

"The new Kent hub complements our existing sites in Warrington, Luton and central London and enables us to effortlessly handle the growing volume of parcels and packages that we are processing on behalf of the UK’s rapidly expanding ecommerce marketplace.”