Podbox joins unattended delivery market

Podbox is the name of the latest drop-off box to emerge in the unattended delivery market. It is the product of Banbury-based Podsystem, whose director Charles Towers-Clark says it has been under development for at least eighteen months. “We’ve been keeping a low profile until the product was thoroughly developed,” he told e.logistics Magazine.

Towers-Clark describes the Podbox as a “proof of delivery box”, which includes the capability to record who delivered what when. It can then communicate the details to the recipient in real time via radio-frequency transmission or GSM telephone. He says the product is felt to have strong appeal for unattended deliveries to field service engineers ­ a market which in fact is seen as potentially larger than home deliveries, at least initially.

Towers-Clark told the Home Delivery Conference in March that he felt consumers “will have to share the cost of innovative delivery solutions,” and ultimately would probably have to bear most of it themselves, even though it might be hidden. The real unknown, he said, was how much they would be prepared to pay.
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