InPost UK hits 2,000 automated parcel machines

E-commerce out of home delivery and returns venture, InPost, has announced deployment of its 2,000th automated parcel machine - or locker unit - in the UK.

The company, which was founded in Poland in 2006, has seen its locker coverage in the UK almost double over the last six months, with around 900 units installed so far in 2021, giving InPost approximately 140,000 individual locker compartments for consumers to collect and return their orders.

It aims to have over 10,000 locker units in operation by 2024.

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New hires

Meanwhile, Jonathan Sheard has joined InPost UK as Business Development Director, Mathew Munro as Product and Marketing Director and Richard Cooper as Logistics Director.

Sheard joins from Klarna, where he was part of Swedish buy now, pay later big hitter’s initial UK launch team as Director of Enterprise Sales for the UK.

Munro previously worked as Chief Product Officer at New York-based tech firm Conversocial, where he was tasked with overseeing its core product strategy and design, as well as customer support.

Cooper has held recent senior logistics positions at Capita, Vodafone and Amazon.

Jason Tavaria, CEO at InPost UK, says: “We are incredibly proud to have installed our 2,000th locker in the UK on the back of an explosion in demand by UK consumers, who want the convenience of 24/7, self-service collection or returns of goods via lockers.”

“Shoppers are fed up of waiting in all day for a delivery or queuing up to return an item. Given the strong UK network and landlord relationships InPost has developed, we feel we are in a prime place to take advantage of this.”

He adds:: “I’m also very pleased to welcome the quality new additions to our senior UK team. We have doubled our executive headcount over the last 12 months and these new hires will help steer us on the next phase of hyper growth.”