InPost continues to rapidly expand its
collection points throughout the UK, with the intention of achieving in
excess of 1,500 sites by the end of the year. To accelerate the locker
system roll-out, the company has signed an agreement with Morrisons,
which operates a total of over 500 Superstores around the country. The
first collection point is now operating and is located at the Morrisons
site on Dewsbury Road in Wakefield, with plans for further lockers to be
established throughout the country to develop a 24/7 ‘click and
collect’ network.
Lorna Mushing, Estates Manager at InPost, commented: “Morrisons
is a trusted brand in the UK and we are delighted to be working
alongside the property team to develop the locker locations at such an
established, forward-thinking company. It’s been extremely heartening to
see the e-commerce, retail and logistics sectors embracing our unique,
robust and highly secure facilities. The lockers deliver real
added-value to our client partners and host sites and InPost now boasts
close to 1,000 collection points across the UK, since the company’s
launch in April 2013. The company has seen rapid growth and is now the
largest network of its kind in the UK and this partnership with
Morrisons will help to further increase the pace of our expansion.”
Stacey Elsworth, Estates Data & Information Manager at Morrisons, said: “We
have worked very closely with InPost over the past few months in order
to install the parcel lockers at Morrisons sites across the UK. We are
excited about this new venture and it offers a real opportunity to
existing Morrisons customers, along with the local community, to have a
parcel collection service that suits their needs.”
The InPost system is ideal for
e-commerce, the retail sector, business-to-business applications and
other markets, where ease of parcel collection is crucial. The lockers
enable customers to place orders online from a range of different
retailers that they then pick up from a local site, at a time that suits
them.
Locker parcel collection is the solution for busy shoppers who don’t
have time to wait in for a traditional delivery, a near impossible task
for 56% of today’s consumers . Provided by InPost, the collection point
houses 47 individual lockers of varying sizes and will be conveniently
located at stores throughout the country, allowing local shoppers to
collect or return their parcels at any time of the day or night.
InPost is operated by Integer, a Polish company. InPost has introduced the solutions already in Australia, Chile, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Ireland,
Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Slovakia, and Ukraine. For more inforamtion see http://www.inpost24.com/
Slightly puzzled as to why this press release merits inclusion in your fantastic blog. It has nothing to do with philately.
ReplyDeleteFor the same reason that I may also report the mis-deeds of TNT's delivery workers. Both are relevant to postal services, and competition that Royal Mail faces. I don't expect to do much like this, but I have also written about the USPS and Canada Post, for other reasons.
DeleteThere's nothing stopping RM doing the same now, they should sign up Tesco and other Supermarkets as quick as they can. Others will no doubt.
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