Proposal by competent minister Petra De Sutter (Green) to make the parcel market more climate-friendly approved by the Council of Ministers. According to De Sutter, it is important that all players have access to all machines. With the new bill, for example, telecom watchdog BIPT, the Belgian Institute for Postal Services and Telecommunications, can instruct DHL to drop parcels in a parcel machine of competitor GLS.
Those who shop online can choose to have their parcel delivered to a vending machine. As soon as the package is ready, you will receive a QR code with which you can open the machine. But that doesn’t apply to everyone. After all, not all players in the delivery market have vending machines.
Minister De Sutter believes that parcel lockers can make e-commerce more climate-friendly. “Certainly in urban areas, deliveries in a vending machine are less polluting than a purchase that is brought to the front door,” she says. The minister refers to a recent French study. This shows that deliveries in a parcel locker send an average of 641 grams of CO2 into the world. That figure rises to an average of 2,060 grams for home deliveries. Although, of course, it depends on whether or not you go to the vending machine by car.
But in order to make the sector more climate-friendly, De Sutter believes it is important that all players have access to all machines. That is why the Council of Ministers agreed with its proposal to give operator BIPT more clout for this.
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