eCommerce delivery company InPost has partnered with Transport for London (TfL) to install over sixty new parcel lockers across TfL’s network over the next three months.
Mainly located within TfL’s tube and railway station car parks, the new lockers are expected to be fully operational by June 2021 – around the time Covid-19 restrictions are set to be removed and commuter footfall will begin to increase.
The rollout follows a successful trial at six TfL locations, including Victoria Coach Station, and Ickenham and Newbury Park’s tube stations. More than 25 new lockers have already been installed across the city, with plans in place to double availability by the end of the summer, says InPost.
The expansion of InPost’s parcel locker network aims to provide local communities and public transport users, with a more convenient and ‘greener’ way to collect and return parcels. With the new lockers – once all are available for use from July 2021 – said to have the capacity to save as much as 193 tonnes in carbon emissions annually. That’s the equivalent of taking 48,000 car journeys off London’s roads a year.
Jason Tavaria, CEO at InPost UK, said: “We are proud to partner with TfL to support InPost’s aim of leading a greener way to shop online with an ambition to drastically reduce last mile deliveries in the capital. This is at a time where the capital is gearing up to gradually, and safely, reopen. InPost is helping stations across the capital act as hubs serving the local communities that surround them by offering a genuinely convenient and easily accessible way to collect deliveries and return items, as part and parcel of their usual journey.”
Nigel Pickup, head of commercial property at TfL, said: “We are pleased to be working with InPost as they increase the number of parcel lockers available across the capital. When more people begin to return to the network safely and responsibly in line with guidance, these lockers will offer a convenient way for them to pick up deliveries as part of their everyday journeys and help reduce delivery vehicle trips across London.
“It is one of the many ways that we are working with innovative companies, such as InPost, generate revenue to reinvest into the transport network.”
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