The consignment house wants to deploy 150 new dispensing boxes by the end of this year, targeting mainly smaller cities, villages or development projects or shopping centers. Investments in Z-BOX will be in the order of tens of millions of crowns.
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“For us, there is a huge opportunity to deliver shipments to places where others do not want to deliver, can not, or where they limit their services. Z-BOX will become a natural part of the network of our classic dispensing points and will help us cover another large area of the Czech Republic. Once again, we will significantly increase the comfort of delivering consignments for customers, “said Simona Kijonková, the founder of Zásilkovna.
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“For us, Z-BOX is a simple and modern service that expands the possibilities for our residents. Shipments can be picked up here 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, depending on how they prefer. This is a major advantage compared to other methods of delivery, “adds Norbert Hlaváček, mayor of the Central Bohemian village of Jenštejn, where Z-BOX was installed.
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The Czech transport company was founded in 2010 by Simona Kijonková.
It has 4,700 of its own dispensing points and 91,600 partner dispensing points.
Collaborates with 28,000 e-shops.
The turnover of the Packeta group, to which Zásilkovna belongs, in 2019 was almost 1.3 billion crowns.
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The consignment house will thus have 3,800 dispensing points by the end of the year, which is the most in the Czech Republic. Competitive Czech Post, for example, operates 3,200 branches.
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Z-BOX are controlled via the mobile application Zásilkovna, for their operation they need a minimum of energy, which they obtain via solar panels. Z-BOX are composed of two to six modules, each containing ten boxes of different sizes.
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As soon as the driver delivers the consignment to the Z-BOX, the customer will receive an information e-mail, an SMS message and a notification to the Mailroom application. At this point, it is possible to pick up the shipment. Delivery is paid online, including cash on delivery. The price for delivery to the Z-BOX is the same as for any other dispensing point of the Shipyard.
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Self-service dispensing boxes are operated, for example, by the Alza.cz online store. The Shipyard has so far leased part of the capacity from him. Competitive Czech Post is following a different path and is building specialized counters at its branches for express delivery and receipt of packages.
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This is what the new Z-BOX self-service dispensing points will look like.
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