Logistics – boot on, package pure trunk to – Süddeutsche.de

• The German Post and the car brand Smart cooperate in September in six cities to deliver parcels directly in the car.
• The delivery is then stored in the trunk of the parked car and returns are taken.
• interested parties can at Smart apply – the manufacturer will also handle the necessary conversion

From Varinia Bernau , Dusseldorf

There was a time when cars were there to to bring a somewhere. Then they became a rolling living room, in which a film or a football match can stream. Now cars are therefore also serve as a mailbox.

From the fall of the can at least try those people times that have a smart and live in Stuttgart. You can be ordered on the Internet stuff deliver into his own car. First attempts to Volvo has already started in Sweden; in Vienna, the local post office has delivered a trial packets to three different vehicles; in Munich, Amazon, Audi and the German Post have teamed for testing purposes. But trying to Smart in September together with DHL, the parcel service of Deutsche Post, starts, is the largest, which it previously existed in Germany: In six other cities, including Berlin and Cologne, he is to be expanded in the coming months.

The car as an extended mailbox

Here Smart is a similar technology as in its carsharing service car2go. There can be now almost all cars open via smartphone. In order to use your own car as extended mailbox, a special app you have to download also. This can be when ordering on the net a once valid transaction number (Tan) generate that you enter the online store in “c / o” field of his address. Yet it is not clear that Internet traders are in the test case.

Also, the parcels will be notified via app. he can locate the vehicle and open the About Tan. Practically, it can then be deposited in the trunk not only a package, but also the same take returns again. To make it not harder than necessary in the large-scale test, DHL will deliver the morning at the Smarts only from 23 o’clock in the evening and five o’clock. What night the package arrives, the customer experiences with the shipping confirmation. Once the messenger drops the trunk lid, extinguished his admission. The customer then receives a message that it has worked with the delivery. A little but he has the mailman in these experiments but then meet: It must not park within 300 meters of his address his car.

Polls The manufacturer is the cost to upgrade the car

What if the messenger does not find the car: If you want to participate in the test, may be at Smart promote the network.? According although one in ten is willing to use his trunk as a mailbox. But this is also true in practice, if he comes home from work and partout to find parking on the doorstep? How well the parcels will actually parked car when urban canyons shield the requisite GPS signal? And what if the customer just then feeds its actual purpose of the car and a small tour makes when the ordered pair of shoes to be delivered?

For automakers such as delivery services answers are worth much to those questions. know the one that people are losing the desire to just buy a car. The others have to adapt to increasingly post: By 2020, the amount will grow in ordered network packets by five to seven percent, they estimate at DHL. The better it works for the service, the more saves the Group to additional trips

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