Vinted taps DHL’s Germany collection points to expand second-hand market

Vinted, 1 of Europe's largest marketplaces for buying and selling pre-owned items betwixt backstage individuals, volition nonstop customers successful Germany to vessel oregon speech goods done DHL Group's (XETRA: DHL) web of parcel lockers and integer kiosks, nether a caller strategical concern aimed astatine making peer-to-peer purchases arsenic convenient arsenic ones done online retailers.

Private-party income of utilized items done online marketplaces person go precise fashionable successful Germany. According to the latest DHL E-Commerce Trends Report, 67% of online shoppers successful the state person already sold items via a integer platform.

Vinted and DHL announced Wednesday they are moving unneurotic to grow and simplify the shipping and postulation of Vinted parcels done DHL's web of Packstations (automated, self-service locker systems that allows users to send, person and drop-off parcels astir the clock), Poststations (digital Deutsche Post retail outlets wherever users tin instrumentality attraction of postal business) and DeinFach lockers (a bearer neutral parcel locker network).

DHL operates the astir extended parcel shipping web successful Germany, including 41,000 parcel drop-off and postulation points astatine station offices, parcel shops and automated facilities. 

The Vinted collaboration builds connected a multi-month aviator programme that some companies precocious completed, DHL spokeswoman Sarah Preuss explained successful an email message.

A peculiar absorption is connected the locker-to-locker shipping option, which is expected to beryllium utilized much wide connected the level successful the future, the companies said.
Using DHL Packstations, Vinted sellers tin driblet disconnected parcels immoderate time, portion buyers tin cod them whenever it suits them. Shipping via Packstations is already disposable without anterior registration. In addition, Vinted buyers bash not request to registry for the Packstation work successful bid to person parcels astatine a Packstation. The postulation codification required for pickup is sent by DHL via email and volition besides beryllium disposable straight done Vinted successful the future.

"Reselling utilized goods online has evolved from a niche enactment to an mundane improvement wrong conscionable a fewer years. As a result, expectations regarding shipping are rising. People buying and selling privately privation shipping to impact arsenic small effort arsenic possible. … Many radical privation to nonstop oregon cod parcels independently of opening hours. This is precisely wherefore automated solutions specified arsenic Packstations are becoming progressively important. That is besides wherefore we volition proceed to put heavy successful expanding our automated web successful the years ahead," said Benjamin Rasch, caput of income and products, Post & Parcel Germany, DHL Group.