Ep 214: bpost, parcel lockers, electric vehicles, and the Ecozone

Postal Hub podcast

Parcel locker evangelist and bpost VP Locker Boost Catherine De Baets joins me to talk about bpost’s Ecozone project to go emission-free in the last mile:

• bpost parcel locker boost programme
• Background to the Ecozone in the Belgian city of Mechelen - and working towards being completely emission-free
• Combining a dense locker network with electric vehicles
• Cooperating with local retailers
• Creating mini-hubs
• What “lean lockers” are
• Creating a flexible parcel locker network
• The “Four-S” model for determining locker locations
• Physical parcel pick-up points (post offices and PUDOs) in the Ecozone
• Promoting parcel lockers to locals in Mechelen
• Customer delivery preferences
• Next stages of the Ecozone delivery concept
• Reducing risk of customers using their car to collect parcels from lockers
• bpost personnel involvement