Retailers using Metapack’s Delivery Manager Platform can now offer sustainable deliveries in Belgium and The Netherlands through start-up Homerr.
Metapack said the logistic tech scale-up has joined its Delivery Manager Platform, enabling retailers to offer their consumers with a more sustainable and social method of receiving and returning parcels.
The partnership has gone live across 2000+ locations in The Netherlands and Belgium, providing consumers in the region with greater control and certainty in the delivery of their parcels.
Social and home deliveries
Available on Metapack’s global delivery management platform, Homerr has created a new simple sustainable and innovative delivery solution for consumers, allowing them to collect and return parcels through social (at home) and service point locations, such as local stores and delivery hubs. Homerr’s specific focus on sustainability has pushed them to be label-less and to use pre-existing delivery routes, enabling them to save up to 79% CO2 emissions per parcel.
Since 2016, Homerr has been investing in innovative solutions to make last mile delivery more efficient and sustainable. By using existing routes and the empty spaces in delivery vans, unnecessary kilometres are reduced as much as possible but also by expanding the distribution network with Service Points and Social Points. Thanks to Homerr, consumers will pickup, receive or return packages absolutely hassle free.
Sustainability “imperative”
With more people buying online than ever before, sustainability is fast becoming a top consideration for consumers before they choose to buy. According to new research from Metapack, almost 75% of online shoppers have stated they consider measures to make deliveries more sustainable. Alongside this, 32% of consumers have stated that sustainability is the most important factor when selecting delivery options.
“In today’s retail climate, it’s imperative that retailers are able to offer their consumers with sustainable delivery options,” said David Randall, Director of Sustainability at Metapack. “We’re delighted to have Homerr’s innovative social and sustainable solution join our platform.
“Working together across The Netherlands and Belgium, we’ll be able to not only make it easier for our retailers to fulfil the growing consumer appetite for greener deliveries but also provide them with a flexible and convenient method of receiving deliveries that can be tailored to individual lifestyles,” he stressed.
“Sustainability has become a powerful value proposition to increasingly conscious consumers. Our goal is to make sustainability as customer friendly as possible, and to make consumers more aware of their online purchases,” said Juriaan Matthijssen, Founder and Managing Director at Homerr.
“Over the past few years, we’re proud to have seen phenomenal progress at Homerr, we’ve grown from a start-up to an internationally operating organisation. Now working together with Metapack, we are making ecommerce logistics more social and sustainable,” stated Mark-Jan Pieterse, Co-founder at Homerr.
Overall, more than 550 million packages are sent annually through Metapack technology platforms by many of the world’s leading ecommerce retailers. Metapack is a member of the Auctane family of companies, whose brands also include ShipStation, Stamps.com, Packlink, ShippingEasy, ShipWorks, ShipEngine, Endicia, Shipsi and GlobalPost.
