Business Post launches its own drop-box system
In what could turn out to be a landmark development, Business Post has started marketing its own drop-box system for unattended deliveries. The company is thought to be the first mainstream UK parcels carrier to have taken this step, although others such as Royal Mail have experimented with box systems of various kinds, and Hays had its own extensive network of box banks for deliveries to field staff (it was later sold to ByBox). The Business Post system is based round the Canadian-developed eBox range, for which the company has become the exclusive UK distributor. eBox consists of individual boxes (they come in three sizes), which are placed directly outside the recipient’s business or home. Business Post is targeting both business and consumer markets with the eBox, although business users are initially seen as the prime potential users.
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