Post has seen lots of last-mile innovation in the Nordics. Now, Posten Norge is taking on the first mile by combining e-postage with home parcel collection.

The Nordics are famous for their development of postal pick-up/drop-off (PUDO) points and the move away from ‘to door’ deliveries. This is probably due to the specific geographies and sparsely populated areas – particularly in the North – not to mention the high labor costs in these countries.

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Norway’s Posten Norge has launched a ‘from door’ parcel sending service that allows customers to send parcels from home.

For a surcharge of Nkr15 (US$1.85) over the regular postage fee, customers can arrange at-home parcel collection from their regular postperson. Customers can go online, pay for postage, and arrange for next-day collection of parcels. The online payment generates a single-use code that the customer writes on the parcel, ready for collection.

The shipment must weigh less than 2kg and fit in a mailbox.

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