Amid challenges such as dealing with the ``2024 problem'' in logistics, JR East and Japan Post will begin a service by the end of the new fiscal year that allows users to receive Yu-Pack packages at multi-functional lockers installed at stations. It happened.
JR East and Japan Post held a press conference in Tokyo on the 21st and announced that they had signed an agreement to resolve social issues.
According to the report, in order to respond to the ``2024 problem'' in logistics, there is currently a service that allows users to receive Yu-Pack packages using approximately 60 multifunctional lockers installed at 33 stations, including Tokyo and Omiya. We plan to start this in the new fiscal year.
The plan is to increase the number of lockers to 1,000 by 2026, which will help reduce the burden of redelivery.
In addition, the company aims to save labor in transportation, with the aim of fully introducing ``relay transportation,'' in which postal workers receive cargo delivered by train to JR stations and transport it by car or motorcycle.
In addition, the plan is to expand the integrated operation, which has already been introduced at some unmanned stations, in which post office staff are responsible for selling tickets.
At the press conference, JR East President Yuji Fukasawa said, ``We want to become a presence that supports Japanese society by taking on the challenge of solving a variety of social issues more than ever before.''