Van Gend & Loos Euro Express to set up unattended delivery points

Van Gend & Loos Euro Express, a subsidiary of the Deutsche Post AG, is to set up five `packstations` in the Netherlands. Already this month, centrally located locker points, i.e. systems with special access codes for customers, are to be opened in Amsterdam where customers will be able to collect their parcels 24 hours a day. As soon as his consignments have been delivered to the nearest locker, the customer is notified by email of SMS. Local partners offering to house these lockers include restuarants of fast food chain McDonalds. Van Gend & Loos expects that in the next few years a comprehensive network of such packstations will be set up all over Europe. Deutsche Post has already successfully trialled a comparable project in Mainz and Dortmund.