• Ep 347: Gaining an advantage in the last mile

  • May 28 2024
  • Length: 28 mins
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Ep 347: Gaining an advantage in the last mile

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  • Summary

  • Alan Barrie, delivery sector expert and Chair of Stamp Free, discusses research into delivery sector trends.

    • Research commissioned by Stamp Free into postal and parcel trends

    • Competition for market share

    • Dynamism of the UK delivery market, with traditional and alternative carriers

    • The growth and scale fuelling competition in the last mile

    • Structural issues creating issues for established delivery companies

    • Getting close to consumers

    • Transformation of the delivery sector

    • Three key aspects of out-of-home delivery: customer convenience, sustainability and business efficiency

    • The potential impact of digitalisation on the delivery sector

    • How data helped cross-border delivery

    • Getting data right for C2C delivery

    • The label - physical representation of data

    • The Stamp Free concept

    • How Stamp Free works in practice

    • Data capture at source

    • Stamp Free and parcel lockers

    • Going beyond replacing stamps and creating a pre-validated physical delivery item

    • Simplifying parcel assessment and drop-off for consumers and delivery drivers
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