Last month I wrote about the new Royal Mail lockers provided from Ukraine. BM has supplied some photographs of the similar Evri/Royal Mail lockers at Kingshill in Swindon.
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| Joint Royal Mail/Evri Parcel locker |
This is his description of the box:
It allows Evri customers to drop off and collect parcels – printing labels if necessary. Royal Mail customers only have the option to drop off but need to have the label affixed already.
The process is:
Choose drop off on opening screen
Scan barcode (or enter manually). This then establishes it is Royal Mail and reminds you not to post prohibited items.
You are then invited to enter your email address to enable a proof of posting to be sent
After placing item in locker and closing door, screen asks you to confirm all is well and the process is complete.
Sadly a further nail in the coffin of stamp use, though.
In France, Vinted is so popular among seller/buyer of second-hand clothes that the company mushroomed its own "Vinted Go" parcel lockers in commercial centers.
ReplyDeleteIt has a public commercial agreement with La Poste: its own postal trolley are visible in many post offices to drop Vinted parcels directly, its own Vinted parcels rates (!).
However La Poste tried to put dressing booth in a handful post offices as experiment between November 2023 and February 2024 (Black Friday - Xmas - January Winter Sales period in France). The booth door was in the shape of a traditional wall yellow mailbox. You got your Vinted parcel there, tried the cloth, sent it back right away if needed. It was discontinued without notice, but town center shop owners were very very very angry that their local post offices helped web competitors shamelessly.
To note: there are also more and more second-hand clothing store opening in French town centers these past two years...
Very interesting, thank you. So many of our post offices are in convenience stores and newsagents that I think that few of them would be able to accommodate such an arrangement. Larger POs have photobooths, and some large Crown Offices which are nowhere near as busy as they used to be could possibly accommodate it - Dereham could - but I doubt it would be worth running a pilot for wider roll-out.
DeleteThe Post Office in Bourne End,Bucks, offers both Royal Mail and Evri drop-off facilities. A bit odd selling the competition's product.
ReplyDeleteIf you go into a PO with a parcel they are likely to tell you the various ways to post; Evri and DPD as well as Royal Mail are offered now.
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