Automated post offices, grocery delivery on the cards as SingPost shifts focus to e-commerce

SingPost group chief executive Paul Coutts, who joined the firm in June 2017. ST PHOTO: SONG TAO
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SINGAPORE - A post office under every Housing Board block, operating at all hours of the day, may one day become reality if SingPost has its way.

There are plans to grow its network of POPStation parcel lockers,which may eventually double as unmanned post offices, SingPost group chief executive Paul Coutts told The Straits Times in an interview.

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