Dutch logistics firm PostNL is opening up its community of parcel lockers to different carriers in 2023. Moreover, the corporate will develop its community of 400 parcel lockers to 1,500 lockers by 2024 throughout the nation. The transfer will make it simpler for customers to obtain and ship parcels.
The Dutch postal firm, PostNL, has been increasing its community for a while. This summer season, it opened 350 pick-up factors in Belgium. Now it has introduced plans of increasing its automated parcel locker community.
Enlargement of locker community
At the moment, there are over 400 lockers on a number of areas. Most of those lockers can be found to clients 24/7. By 2024, the corporate needs to develop its community to 1,500 lockers throughout the nation. The purpose of the growth is to make lockers accessible to extra Dutch customers.
‘To reinforce the shopper expertise, we’re increasing our variety of parcel lockers.’
“Shoppers like to make use of the PostNL parcel machines and discover them extraordinarily user-friendly. To additional improve the shopper expertise, we’re subsequently now busy increasing the variety of PostNL parcel lockers and are working in the direction of opening them up”, explains Barry Husman, Director Retail Benelux at PostNL.
Constructing a brand new platform
The brand new lockers won’t solely be accessible to PostNL. The provider is at the moment constructing a brand new platform which can allow different carriers to connect with the parcel lockers. In accordance with the corporate, this may speed up digitization to be able to supply customers a greater buyer expertise.
‘Carriers might want to pay a price when reserving a locker.’
With the brand new platform, customers will be capable to decide up parcels from a number of carriers at one location. Carriers who wish to use PostNL’s community, might want to pay a price when reserving a locker. The price is dependent upon locker dimension and the quantity of days {that a} bundle stays contained in the locker.
