Why your apartment building should install apartment parcel lockers
As the online shopping sector continues to grow, apartment buildings are receiving more package deliveries than ever before. This surge has led to cluttered mailrooms, missed deliveries, and facilitated the rise in parcel theft; all factors that have contributed to increasing tenant frustration. Installing smart parcel lockers in your apartment lobby is a solution that not only streamlines parcel management, but also offers significant benefits for both building management and tenants alike.
Enhanced Security:
The installation of smart parcel lockers can improve building security by ensuring parcels are stored away securely, discouraging parcel thieves from venturing into your lobby. This solution all but eliminates parcel theft from your building.
Convenience for Tenants:
Groundfloor’s parcel lockers facilitate 24/7 collection, allowing tenants to collect their deliveries at their leisure. Using its ability to generate unique digital signatures, the lockers can also sign for your parcel on your behalf, meaning that you no longer have to wait around for your delivery. These factors create convenience for the tenants as parcels can be collected at any time.
Operational Efficiency:
Groundfloor’s lockers also increase operational efficiency by allowing couriers to deliver directly to residents via the lockers. By removing the need for staff involvement in the delivery process, we can save your staff hours every week, so that they can invest back into further enhancing the tenant experience.
Sustainability:
Groundfloor’s smart parcel lockers have been proven to improve sustainability by eliminating ‘failed’, or missed, deliveries. By enabling a successful first time delivery, parcels do not have to be redelivered, or taken to the nearest post office, removing the need for resorting, and secondary transport. A study conducted by the University of Melbourne that investigated the effect of parcel lockers on residential buildings suggested that this emissions saving could be as high as 90,000 tonnes per year, just within the Melbourne CBD alone.
Parcel lockers can prove to be game-changing for a building that is managing its parcel deliveries. For tenants it creates a secure, convenient environment for parcels to be stored whilst awaiting collection. For building management, it improves operational efficiency by allowing couriers to deliver directly to residents, allowing staff to spend more time improving the tenant experience.
