Hongkong Post has launched a new logistics service for group-buying websites offeringcost-effective delivery and counter collection solutions to adjust to the direct marketing boom and
increasing transactions via the internet.Hongkong’s postal operator explained that internet shopping has rapidly grown in the territoryespecially for web-based group-buying. Therefore, it extended its logistics service forgroup-buying websites to cope with the e-commerce boom and respond to the growing demand for totallogistics solutions.
“Over the years, Hongkong Post has been providing a range of international delivery solutions tofacilitate end-to-end distribution of purchased goods over the internet to overseas destinations.This present local logistics solution for group-buying websites further enhances our service offersin e-commerce with our extensive retail network. We believe that our safe and secure countercollection service for group buying websites will help to provide customers and the general publica convenient logistic service with a high level of privacy and security,” Hongkong Post said.
Hongkong Post Logistics provides online traders with seamless, one-stop integrated logisticssolutions at a favourable price, especially benefitting those who want to have a quick e-businessstart-up while minimising capital investment and operating costs. This service includes supplychain management services such as collection of goods from suppliers, warehousing and inventorymanagement of goods, receipt of orders by electronic means from merchants and picking and packingof goods.
The service also provides delivery of goods to all commercial and residential districts in HongKong with an option to collect goods at post offices. Deliveries are made in the morning andafternoon throughout Hong Kong, in the evening in selected areas each working day with no sizelimit and weight of up to 30kg per item for local delivery.
Through direct data interface in order and delivery status exchange, Hongkong Post Logisticsservice can simplify the order management for online traders. It can provide an alternative pick-upoption for customers who cannot stay at home to receive the delivered items or who do not wish todisclose their private data such as a residential address. This way, the service ensures a highlevel of privacy and security.
The first group-buying website to using Hongkong Post’s extended service is Qpon818.com, an ITservices subsidiary of Wharf T&T, the second largest fixed line telecommunication operator inHong Kong. The delivery and counter collection service is now provided at six designated postoffices. All selected post offices are located in prime locations where both merchants andcustomers are able to access them easily for product stocking and collection.
“Direct marketing is a booming sector and transactions via the Internet are increasing at afantastic rate. It is believed that e-commerce will very soon be a leading way of conductingbusiness in Hong Kong. This dynamic business environment needs a highly developed supply chaininfrastructure, which can involve very high costs and long lead time to set up. It therefore makessound economic sense to ‘buy in’ these services from a professional logistics service provider,”Hongkong Post declared.
At a global level, customers can profit from various international delivery options includingthe premium service Speedpost, return of defective goods to suppliers as well as inventory anddelivery status reports.
