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Ep 214: bpost, parcel lockers, electric vehicles, and the Ecozone
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Parcel locker evangelist and bpost VP Locker Boost Catherine De Baets joins me to talk about bpost’s Ecozone project to go emission-free in the last mile:
- bpost parcel locker boost programme
- Background to the Ecozone in the Belgian city of Mechelen - and working towards being completely emission-free
- Combining a dense locker network with electric vehicles
- Cooperating with local retailers
- Creating mini-hubs
- What “lean lockers” are
- Creating a flexible parcel locker network
- The “Four-S” model for determining locker locations
- Physical parcel pick-up points (post offices and PUDOs) in the Ecozone
- Promoting parcel lockers to locals in Mechelen
- Customer delivery preferences
- Next stages of the Ecozone delivery concept
- Reducing risk of customers using their car to collect parcels from lockers
- bpost personnel involvement
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