Belgian postal company moves into crowdsourced deliveries

While crowdsourced delivery platforms appear increasingly common, as a host of start-ups look to break into the business-to-consumer by aping the Uber model and transplanting it to freight and logistics, there has been little appetite for adopting them by national postal companies, many of which have deep relationships with unions. So we read with interest, in LogisticsMatter, that Belgium’s postal operator, bpost, has developed an app that will allow private citizens to deliver goods and letters on its behalf – although bpost ...