The state-run company “Moldova’s Post Office” on December 4 launched a project to deliver mail through the agency of the post-terminal network, IPN reports.
“The service is an innovative one in Moldova. Its essence consists in the delivery of packages and other types of mail purchased online not though the post office, but through post-terminals, enabling thus the clients to avoid queues and to save time. The mail can be collected 24 hours of 24, when it is convenient to the client,” said the company’s director general Sergei Nastas.
He also said that the number of mail packages bought online increased considerably following the development of electronic trade. “Moldova’s Post Office” earlier purchased two terminals. One was installed at the post office No. 2060 in Botanica district, while the other one inside the Railway Terminal in Chisinau. There were bought another three terminals, from the local company “Aviatehnologie”, which will be set up in other posts offices in Chisinau and Balti.
The post-terminal is an integrated automated system for receiving and distributing mail, which consists of the terminal with multiple cells of different sizes and capacity and the software that allows automating the whole parcel post.
Nastas said it is easy and convenient to use the post-terminal. The client who wants to receive the mail by parcel post registers as user on www.pt.md and gets a unique ID. The client fills out the required information, including the postal address, ID and selected post-terminal. When the parcel arrives, it is placed in the post-terminal by a courier. The client is notified by SMS or email, which contains the number of the parcel, the period during which it can be collected and the sum that must be paid. The payment can be made online on www.pt.md/achitare, with any Visa Card or Master Card, or in cash at the post-terminal. The fee is 20 or 30 lei, depending on the size of the parcel.
According to “Moldova’s Post Office”, the Estonian capital Tallinn has a positive experience in delivering mail by post-terminals. It has over 100 such terminals.
“Moldova’s Post Office” invested €40,000 of its own funds in the project.
