PostNL launches e-commerce checkout facility
PostNL has launched a new online parcel management service to help simplify the process of shopping via the Internet. Consumers can sign up for the MijnPakket (MyParcel) service from today, to co-ordinate all of their online deliveries from one place.
As well as offering an overview of online purchases being delivered by PostNL, the new platform can store address and delivery information so that online shoppers do not need to fill in the details each time they shop online.
Online retailers can participate in offering the PostNL Checkout facility so that shoppers’ personal preferences and payment options are entered automatically in the ordering process, with consumers indicating only where and when they want the item delivered.
Items can be delivered to home or work addresses, or to next-door neighbours or a PostNL post office.
PostNL said retailers Boeties and X-Only were among the first to make use of the PostNL Checkout system, which is already integrated with the MijnWinkel (My Shop) e-commerce software platform.
E-commerce is helping to fuel considerable growth in PostNL parcel volumes at the moment, with 7.5% year-on-year growth in volumes and revenues recorded in the recent third quarter, even as the company’s mail volumes declined by 6.9%.
The Dutch postal operator said it developed the new MyParcel service in response to demand from online shoppers and retailers for greater choice and control in the delivery of online purchases.
Gerrit Mastenbroek, managing director of PostNL Parcels, said: “As a partner in e-commerce, we can see how the consumer is playing an increasingly important role, and – as the market leader – we wish to key into that development.”
