Lecot installs parcel lockers at seven of its branches
New parcel lockers installation partnership between building materials supplier Lecot and bpost.
Tuesday 27 June 2023Parcel lockers are the fastest growing pick-up option among the solutions currently offered by bpost. Exceptionally convenient, parcel lockers are also the most environmentally friendly choice. Parcel lockers situated along approach roads (like Lecot branches) are also popular among people who are on the road a lot and do not always find it easy to get to another bpost pick-up point. They can pick up their parcels from a parcel locker 24/7.
Lecot has set itself the ambitious goal of rolling out its service to its various customer groups (including craftspeople and professional builders) by 2025. To this end, Lecot has identified more flexible and more sustainable pick-up and return of online orders (from Lecot and other parties) as a major driver of this strategy. Lecot has therefore decided to install bpost parcel lockers at seven of its branches. The branches were selected on the basis of various parameters, such as location and access, the density of the bpost network in the vicinity of these branches and, of course, the needs of customers.
“Lecot has expanded in recent years, and has become a national name and supplier for the building industry with 77 branches. We continue to enlarge and expand our services as part of our unrelenting focus on making life easier for our customers. The parcel lockers are an attractive plus point in addition to advice, repairs, Fleet, Connect and much more. This extra service in partnership with bpost is a perfect complement to our range and is fully in line with our desire to make our customers’ life easier in a sustainable way, during but also outside the opening times of our stores.” Pieter Morisse – CEO Lecot
“bpost is also constantly expanding its network. The presence of bpost at Lecot branches is a rational business decision. It is fully in line with bpost’s mission to motivate end customers to have their parcels delivered to a pick-up point, the most environmentally friendly option. That’s because a drop-off or pick-up at a parcel locker on foot, by bike or by car as part of an existing journey cuts related carbon emissions by up to 90%.” Nick Bond - Head of Partner Network at bpost
Background information
bpost installed the first publicly accessible parcel lockers in Belgium back in 2011. Parcel lockers are now installed at more than 780 locations throughout the country and have become an integral part of Belgium’s densest network of 2950 pick-up points, which also includes post offices, post points and parcel points.
Lecot is a building materials supplier and specialist with expertise in finishing, windows and doors hardware and tools, and much more. Lecot serves a wide range of professional builders based on such strengths as 135 years’ experience, 77 branches, a mobile technical sales team and an online ordering platform and online store.
bpost parcel lockers can be found at the following Lecot branches:
- Lecot Tournai Avenue de Maire, 33 - 7500 Tournai
- Lecot Tielt Bevrijdingslaan 2a - 8700 Tielt
- Lecot Tienen Getestraat 100 - 3300 Tienen
- Lecot Zemst Hoge buizen 29 - 1980 Zemst
- Lecot Ninove Ring Oost 14 - 9400 Ninove
- Lecot Mol Ambachtsstraat 19 - 2400 Mol
- Lecot Melsele Grote baan 302 - 9120 Beveren from 17 July 2023
