Intelligent courier locker offers ‘last mile’ solution

Speakers: Li Ningjing, Sam Duckett, and Lu Sirui 

Intelligent courier lockers are installed in a community . [Photo: from Baidu.com]

Local courier firms and communities are widely promoting an intelligent parcel delivery locker as a new solution to the costly last mile of delivery in Shanghai.

The parcel lockers typically comprise 40 to 200 electronic lockers with a control unit that allows each compartment to be opened with the proper credentials. They are available in different sizes.

Over 5,000 such intelligent lockers have been installed in Shanghai and about 60,000 nationwide, according to SF Express, which led the Hive Box cooperation scheme.

It is estimated 43.8 billion parcels will be delivered nationwide this year, or 120 million parcels daily, according to the State Post Bureau of China. 

The audio clip is from Studio+, produced by CRI.