Opening with Mayor Klaus Luger – Around 100 post offices planned in the Linz area
Vienna/Linz (OTS) – The Austrian Post is putting new self-service (SB) devices into operation in Linz. This includes the first location at Anastasius-Grün-Straße 5, where an old telephone box was removed and a new post office was built. Parcels and registered or large-format letters can be picked up here around the clock.
Representing the new Linz post offices, this location was ceremoniously opened today by Klaus Luger, Mayor of Linz, and Walter Oblin, Deputy General Director, Board of Directors for Letters & Finance, Österreichische Post AG.
„The massive expansion through 100 additional self-collection stations is an important postal service for citizens. Work flow can also be made easier for company employees because packages are delivered to nearby stations. I am pleased that Swiss Post is starting this initiative and is rapidly pushing ahead with the expansion. In addition, the infrastructure of old telephone booths is used sustainably.
“, said Klaus Luger, Mayor of Linz.
„As a post office, we want to be even closer to our customers in urban areas – we can achieve this by massively condensing our self-service network. With more compact self-service devices, we can optimally cover individual districts and even larger residential complexes and offer the collection of parcels or the dispatch of returns around the clock.
“, explains Walter Oblin, Deputy General Director, Board of Directors for Letters & Finance, Österreichische Post AG.
Around 100 additional post offices are planned for Linz
It was only in November that the postal service put 16 new self-service locations into operation in the Gänserndorf district of Lower Austria in order to test the densification of the self-service network in rural areas. The new post stations in Linz are now being used for the first time to densify urban areas.
There are now 31 postal locations in the Upper Austrian capital: eight postal branches, seven postal partners and 16 free-standing postal stations. In total, the postal service wants to build around 100 additional postal stations in the Linz area in 2024 and 2025.
The compact post stations enable parcels and registered or large-format letters to be picked up around the clock. If desired, the shipments can be redirected there directly via the Post app. Pre-franked parcels with a return label or parcel stamp can also be dropped off at post offices 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
The consolidation of the self-service network and the takeover of around 1,000 A1 telephone boxes across Austria was announced last year. With over 575 self-service collection stations, 113,731 self-service collection boxes, 561 self-service shipping stations and shipping boxes as well as 73,443 postal reception boxes, Austrian Post already operates the largest smart locker network in the country.
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