If it were up to Amsterdam startup MYPO, Dutch homes would soon be equipped with parcel letterboxes. After a pilot with DHL, the company raised an investment of half a million euros.
Parcel mailboxes should provide the answer to the large number of delivery attempts that fail. The parcel market has grown by 23 per cent over the past year. On the first delivery attempt, the resident is often not at home, resulting in vans driving down the street for nothing.
DHL tested MYPO's parcel lockers at about 25 houses in Rotterdam. The parcel locker can be hung on the recipient's front door via the letterbox, without tools. The recipient and DHL delivery person then open the letterbox with a unique code. This is the last four digits of the track & trace code. The delivery driver can also take returns placed in the letterbox by the consumer. The design of the letterbox is extendable. When the recipient expects a larger parcel, he can extend the box.
In other European countries like France and Germany, parcel lockers are relatively popular, both at home and at another location. In the Netherlands, this trend has yet to take shape. Earlier research by ABN Amro shows that about 30 per cent of consumers in major European countries expect to use Parcel Lockers more. The Dutch would see this form of delivery as the least popular. Parties such as De Buren and Logixbox have been experimenting with parcel lockers in the Netherlands for some time.
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