“All parcels delivered via Budbee in our country will now be delivered to our approximately 1,000 parcel lockers across the country,” says the company’s country manager Jørgen Höppener.
He immediately announces that he will stop delivering parcels to the door.
Budbee was given five years to establish itself in the Netherlands between parties such as PostNL and DHL. The management is throwing in the towel regarding home delivery.
Höppener on LinkedIn: “An additional advantage is that we are not forced to participate in the price war between parcel delivery companies who outdo each other with prices that are further below cost price and therefore always at the expense of people and the environment.”
Budbee has approximately one thousand parcel lockers in the Netherlands. That number has hardly changed in a year, because in March 2023 the Swedes also spoke of the number one thousand.
A large number of these safes are located at Albert Heijns.
At the end of 2022, Swedish logistics companies Instabox and Budbee announced their merger. In the wake of that process, Instabox Netherlands went bankrupt and its activities were transferred to DHL. Budbee was the only one left in the Netherlands.
The country manager on the strategic choice: “We are taking a bold step in the Netherlands to make parcel delivery truly sustainable and profitable.”
On average, ten percent of e-commerce orders in the Netherlands go via pick-up points. In terms of CO2 emissions, this form of delivery is on average ten percent more environmentally friendly than home delivery, according to Thuiswinkel.org today in a sustainability report.
Source: www.emerce.nl
