Smartpost expands package delivery services to Europe

Estonian company OÜ Smartpost, whose system for delivering goods and postal packages has been used by dozens of thousands of Estonian residents, is now offering the option of sending packages to Europe. Since last week, Smartpost can be used for sending packages to 27 European countries, using the pan-European logistics company GLS. So far, the only foreign country the company sent packages to was only Finland.

OÜ Smartpost council member Peep Kuld said that the company’s partner in Estonia is Itella Eesti, a subsidiary of the Finnish Post. Via Itella, the packages reach the foreign partner, one of Europe’s biggest courier companies GLS.

Kuld said that the main focus of the company is still on selling the Smartpost package automates, their hardware, software and business model know-how to foreign markets. The service offered in Estonia is just a model to introduce and export the technology, Kuld said.

Smartpost has 36 self-service postal box sets in different shopping centres and elsewhere in Estonia. People get an SMS on their mobile phone when their package arrives, they insert the code given to them into a postal box and can get their package from the box. People can also send packages from the Smartpost postal boxes, by paying with bank card. Last year the service was used by 65,000 people.