Why Parcel Delivery Lockers Are More Important Than Ever In The Modern Workplace

With the constant change of tightening and easing of restrictions and lockdowns, businesses are returning to work with a ‘new normal’, a thorough review of workplace systems and processes is being carried out on a nationwide scale. While many things will function differently from now on, some aspects of business won’t change at all.

Take mail as an example. Although many business communications are sent digitally, there will always be a need to send documents, parcels, work tools, vehicle keys, etc., through the post. This means staff will have to handle items sent from a variety of senders and which have passed through several pairs of hands, increasing the risk of the virus spreading.

And it is not only the postal system that carries a risk of infection. Couriers entering workplace receptions to make deliveries could bring the virus with them; staff within a post room setting could unwittingly be spreading the virus when they distribute mail internally to departments; or the virus could even be spread by mailed items passing between employees. Put simply, the more hands that touch a mailed or couriered item, the greater the chance of the infection spreading.

These risks make it essential that staff interactions with mail are reduced as much as possible. This is where we come in. With intelligent parcel locker systems, we can streamline the 3 main routes mail can take – ‘Post In’, ‘Post Out’ and ‘Post Within’ – and make them more hygienic.

These clever locker systems help reduce the number of people who handle a particular item of inbound or outbound mail. With their spring-opening doors and contactless barcode scanning obviating the need to touch readers or screens, these lockers provide a convenient and, above all, safe means of retrieval. But that’s not all. The locker doors can also be coated with an anti-microbial treatment which kills bacteria and viruses and therefore prevents them from spreading.