“As a company we know that we can do very well by doing good. Not just because it’s the right thing to do for global health,
but because it makes sound economic sense for our shareholders and for the e-commerce ecosystem”
– CEO Frank Coccia
Doing the right thing is always the right thing to do.
Pick Up + Drop Off + return
community based parcel management is green on green
consolidate parcels +50:1
reduce courier traffic +50:1
reduce CO2 by +50:1
$upport $mall busine$$
walk the talk – inspire change
optimize packaging
reduce car trips
network-donate used clothing
eliminate parcel theft
consolidate parcels +50:1
- PUDOpoint Counters are located in convenience stores or small businesses in neighborhoods containing a critical mass of residences and people.
- by directing you parcel to these PUDOpoints, instead of your residence or office, your parcel and many other parcels get shipped directly from a regional courier depot, to a single destination for convenient pick-up, rather than to many individual houses.
- during peak e-commerce periods, that consolidation and corresponding reduction in vehicle traffic and CO2 emissions could be as high as 100:1.
reduce courier traffic +50:1
- by directing e-commerce parcels to PUDOpoint Counters located very near to where concentrations of people live, work and play, delivery trucks spend much less time on the road, and stay off residential streets more-or-less altogether.
- people driving, walking or transitting by these PUDOpoint Counters can pick-up their parcels on their way in or out of their neighborhoods at their convenience, as operators are open early, late and on weekends.
- during peak e-commerce periods, the reduction in vehicle traffic could be as high as 100:1.
reduce atmospheric carbon emissions +50:1
- by directing e-commerce parcels to PUDOpoint Counters located very near to where concentration of people live, work and play, delivery trucks spend much less time on the road.
- second and third attempt deliveries, and unattended parcel theft are eliminated entirely, and customers can pick their parcels up at their convenience as they exit or enter the neighborhood.
- during peak e-commerce periods, the reduction in vehicle traffic into and out of neighborhoods could be as high as 100:1, with a corresponding reduction in carbon emissions.
$upport $mall busine$$
- e-commerce has taken a bite out of the revenues and foot traffic once enjoyed by community-based convenience stores and small businesses.
- by operating PUDOpoint Counters, and leveraging latent storage space and employee time, these small business can recover and grow.
- supporting local businesses, and encouraging consumers to shop locally as well as online are essential to a healthy economy.
walk the talk – inspire change
- during times of global and environmental crisis, it can be overwhelming to consider where to start.
- becoming a PUDO member is something any one person can do with very little effort, and that one decision will force beneficial and meaningful environmental and social change at all levels of the supply chain.
- please join and invite family and friends to join, and leave the rest to us.
optimize packaging
- PUDO’s return to charity programs address the huge issue of e-commerce packaging, targeting among other things, the massive quantity of cardboard that is used annually (the equivalent of one billion trees in North America) to package and ship e-commerce parcels.
- by packing an empty Amazon or other shipping box with gently used clothing and shoes, and dropping it to a participating PUDOpoint Counters location for return shipping to charity thrift stores free of charge, consumers not only re-use boxes, they ensure proper recycling of that cardboard and supply merchandise and revenues for charities and people in need.
reduce car trips
- by choosing to use PUDOpoint Counters as your ship-to address, you know with 100% certainty that someone will be available to receive your package, and that you can drive, walk, or transit by to pick it up at your convenience while you are in the area.
- avoid dedicated trips by car to pick-up parcels re-routed to not-so-convenient-or-nearby courier depots because nobody was home to accept delivery.
- a double-win for the environment, when you add the +50:1 reduction in CO2 emisions and courier traffic that using PUDOpoint Counters already affords.
network-donate used clothing
- PUDO leverages its existing parcel returns network, to send boxes of consumer donated merchandise to the regional sorting warehouses of benefiting charities, for sorting and bulk shipment to community-based thrift stores.
- sale of donated merchandise provides a critical service to people in need, and generates revenue to fund badly needed outreach programs.
- by packing an empty Amazon or other shipping box with gently used clothing and shoes, and dropping it to a participating PUDOpoint Counters location for return shipping to charity thrift stores free of charge, consumers not only re-use boxes, they ensure proper recycling of that cardboard and supply merchandise and revenues for charities and people in need.
eliminate parcel theft
- e-commerce parcel theft – a.k.a. ‘porch piracy’ is a huge problem in North America, costing +$6 billion dollars per year.
- porch piracy is both an organized crime and an opportunistic one, taking advantage of unattended parcels left at the doorstep when consumers are not home to accept delivery (that’s +35% of the time).
- 20% of homeowners are victims of porch piracy, an average of 2.5x per year; involving valuable police resources most-often to no end.
- choosing PUDO in the online check-out, or using a PUDOpoint Counters address as your address, eliminates porch piracy 100% of the time.
“There has never been a time of greater change for the (e-commerce) last-mile.
We encourage ecosystem players of all kinds — from both private and public spheres
Doing the right thing is always the right thing to do.
PUDO’s top 3 environmental interventions
Consolidate at the community level to reduce atmospheric CO2 emissions
The single biggest environmental impact that the PUDOpoint Counters network offers to the entire ecosystem, is an ‘open’ parcel pick-up + drop-off counter network comprising thousands of community-based mini hubs. Any courier, agent or postal service can consolidate and drop trucks full of parcels to one PUDOpoint Counters location, rather than driving parcels one at a time from their regional warehouse to hundreds of homes. Thousands of trucks off the road, tonnes of CO2 unspent.
Leverage latent space at the community level, share economy, and support micro GDP
By networking with small businesses in communities across Canada and The United States, PUDO is sharing their economy and technology with operators’ unused counter and storage space, and offering them per-parcel revenue and increased foot traffic. Courier companies pay as they go, happy to bypass capital investment in branded community-based hubs to extend their own networks. Supporting local economies is paramount to social and environmental health.
Leverage reverse logistics to divert textiles from landfills, and recycle packaging
By utlilizing our existing returns network to invite consumers to activate our free shipping option, and use empty e-commerce boxes to donate gently used clothing and footwear, and/or unwanted for-return merchandise to charity, we ensure re-purposing of textiles and proper recycling of cardboard. Annually currently, the pulp equivalent of one billion trees go into e-commerce packaging manufacture, and over two million tonnes of clothing end up in landfills.
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