Pos Indonesia to trial parcel locker terminals next month
Pos Indonesia is the latest national postal operator set to consider the advantages that self-service parcel locker terminals may offer consumer parcel delivery services. The national postal service in Indonesia has signed a contract with supplier Gunnebo Indonesia c/o PT that should see a trial getting underway in March 2014.
Gunnebo Indonesia is an authorised distribution and system integrator partner for Australian parcel locker manufacturer TZ Ltd, a company that has already supplied locker systems for the likes of Singapore’s SingPost and is setting up its own network of parcel lockers in Australia working with carriers like Toll Group and Fastway Couriers.
TZ Ltd said that it has received a purchase order for the contract, after “several months” of planning and discussion.
The lockers allow consumers to have packages – for example, Internet purchases – delivered to an alternative address if they are unable to be at home during the working day to take delivery. Package recipients are emailed or texted a personal code that will allow them to open the specific locker in which a carrier has left their package. The locker terminals often allow consumers to collect packages – or drop-off items for return – 24 hours a day.
The company said that if the trial is successful, it understood that Pos Indonesia aims to build a parcel locker network throughout Indonesia, the world’s fourth most populous country that is becoming a significant market for e-commerce.
Benjamin Ford, the Asia Pacific regional manager for TZ, said following the SingPost parcel locker project, the Pos Indonesia project could see his company set up as a major player for the Asia Pacific region in terms of parcel lockers.
“Our work in Singapore has not gone unnoticed in the region and this is the first of what we hope will be a number of deployments in 2014 in Asia for Postal and Logistic providers,” said Ford.
“It is TZ’s stated objective to be the dominant provider of Smart Parcel Locker solutions in the Asia Pacific region and with Pos Indonesia, Singapore Post and our own A.D.A.M. Parcel Locker network in Australia, we are well on our way to achieving that objective.”
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TZ Ltd, which is also in the process of providing parcel lockers for Poste Italiane to run a trial of the technology, revealed in a shareholder update at the end of January that it is currently in talks to make use of an Asia-based manufacturing contractor, which should allow it “significant” cost savings in producing its technology.
The company saw its sales up 267% in the latest quarter, and has been taking on extra staff to support new projects like the Poste Italiane and Pos Indonesia trials, and the Singapore Post and Australian networks. The SingPost network is on track to reach 100 terminals by the end of 2014.
TZ also sells its parcel locker systems to corporations and property developers in the United States.
With a growing presence for its technology in the Asia Pacific region, however, the company noted that an extra benefit will be that postal organisations using the systems will be able to network between each other, to allow effective cross-border parcel delivery.
