MEDIA RELEASE

09 DECEMBER 2015

Sending your parcels is easy with Parcel Connect

Right across New Zealand, customers are benefiting from Parcel Connect, a new parcel drop-off and pick-up service operated by the friendly courier experts, Fastway Couriers.

With Parcel Connect, a wide variety of local retail outlets such as convenience stores, service stations, and newsagents, operate as a Parcel Connect agent, allowing customers to send and collect their parcels from one of over 150 locations across New Zealand. Parcel Connect agents operate outside of the traditional 9am to 5pm restrictions, seven days a week and are in locations which are easily accessible to customers.

Scott Jenyns, CEO at Fastway Couriers New Zealand, says the introduction of this service will hugely benefit customers, especially during the busy Christmas period.

"With Parcel Connect, customers are offered an alternative to post or traditional courier services by allowing them to conveniently send and collect their parcels from their local Parcel Connect agent, at a time that suits them. This enables customers to skip the queues, while also having the added benefit of being able to purchase other essential items while in store. Parcel Connect is available year round and is particularly useful during busy periods such as Christmas,” says Jenyns.

Customers can arrange to send a parcel online by visiting the Parcel Connect website, following the instructions and dropping off their parcel at their local Parcel Connect location. From here, Fastway’s friendly Courier Franchisees take care of the rest.

“So many of us are buying and selling items online, especially during Christmas. This has led to an increase in parcel volumes and deliveries in and out of residential areas. Adding to this, customers are becoming more and more time poor and need a solution that suits their busy lifestyles. Realistically, many of us can’t always be at home to take delivery of our purchases, nor do we have the time to line up at a post office during office hours – Parcel Connect is the solution to this," adds Jenyns.

Williamson Avenue Superette in Auckland has been a Parcel Connect agent since September 2015. Owner Shantilal Prema says:

“Parcel Connect is a great way for us to offer additional services to our customers. People are now coming in to our store to pick up groceries as well as collect or send their parcels at the same time. Feedback so far has been really positive and the customers like that they can now collect their parcels after hours and on the weekends.”

“With already proven success from our overseas counterparts, we expect our Parcel Connect network to continue its growth across New Zealand, throughout 2016,” says Jenyns.

For more information on Parcel Connect in your local area, visit www.parcelconnect.co.nz.

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