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SINGAPORE - Singapore Post (SingPost) and SMRT’s business arm, Stellar Lifestyle, are launching a postal collection pilot project as part of their memorandum of understanding to explore deploying more postal service points near MRT stations.
For three months starting from June 25, up to two “mail ambassadors” in SingPost uniforms will collect postal items daily from Tampines and Raffles Place MRT stations.
They will travel on the East-West Line between the off-peak hours of 11am and 2pm to take these postal items to SingPost’s sorting facility located near Paya Lebar MRT station.
SingPost and Stellar Lifestyle said the pilot was designed to study the benefits of utilising MRT trains to collect postal items, particularly in terms of operational cost efficiencies and carbon emission savings.
It also represents the first time SingPost will be using MRT trains for postal collection.
Should the pilot prove successful, both parties plan to expand the trial to more train stations across all other SMRT-operated lines.
Describing SMRT’s rail network as “highly accessible”, SingPost’s chief executive officer for Singapore, Mr Shahrin Abdol Salam, said that its partnership with Stellar Lifestyle will allow the group to bring its services “closer to the community, seamlessly integrating into their daily routines”.
“The extension of our collaboration with Stellar Lifestyle will continue to bring convenience to consumers and small and medium-sized enterprises, by strategically situating our service points along key transportation nodes across Singapore,” he added.
Mr Shahrin was formerly managing director of SMRT’s Thomson-East Coast Line and the senior vice-president of strategic relations at SMRT.
Singapore Strait Times
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