AUSTRALIA
• Economy international air express , partnering with QSI as the international arm and a fully owned subsidiary of SingPost .
Roberts said , “ Now , all of our customers can get their domestic and international shipping needs dealt with by the same , very customer centric company .”
In June 2015 , SingPost invested in Hubbed , a one-stop eCommerce aggregator that has built a network of some 680 newsagents to provide a parcel delivery service in every major city across Australia . Combined with this , CouriersPlease is fast tracking the deployment of POPStations , that are 24 / 7 parcel lockers .
Dr Sascha Hower , CEO of QSI , said , “ We are pleased to be supporting CouriersPlease as it invests in the eCommerce logistics ecosystem in Australia . Ecommerce is all about having multichannels - for speed and getting parcels to customers at the times that suit them . People in Australia are busy and active , and working professionals won ’ t be home during work hours to receive their parcels . We want to make their lives easier by offering them flexibility - through CouriersPlease , they enjoy a nationwide door-to-door delivery service across Australia . We are glad that we can help provide a significant enhancement in convenience and flexibility to customers in the expanding markets .”
Hower , who is also the Group COO of SingPost , further explained , “ We are pleased to be supporting CouriersPlease as it invests in the eCommerce logistics ecosystem in Australia . We want to enable endto-end solutions from warehousing to convenient touchpoints , flexible doorstep delivery and track and trace features . Our smart-lockers or POPStations provide customers with a physical drop-off / pick-up point as an additional option to the door-to-door delivery service which we currently provide .”
At present , there is a pilot PopStation unit available at CouriersPlease ’ s main depot located in Rosehill , Parramatta . Customers who have direct their parcels to the depot are able to collect their parcels from the POPStation anytime at their own convenience . SingPost has already
www . couriersplease . com . au 139