JR East and Japan Post to start baggage collection service at station lockers. The plan is to increase the number of lockers to 1,000 by 2026, which will help reduce the burden of redelivery.
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. JR East President Yuji Fukasawa: ''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''