12-10-2022
“The Wellington Super Depot is our first automated processing hub in the lower North Island and the first to be built from the ground up. This is the single largest material handling investment programme within New Zealand in recent history. This investment will allow us to process parcels more efficiently and accurately through automated sortation and address reading technology,” Walsh said.
“With all trends indicating that online shopping is here to stay, we’re investing over $200 million across our network so we can increase our parcel processing capacity across the country to 190 million parcels annually by 2033. We’re growing from two automated sorting centres in Auckland and Christchurch, up to 11 of varying sizes across the country, if parcel volumes continue to grow. This gives us greater ability to scale our business to match the growth of parcels into the future and deliver great service to our customers, and their customers,” Walsh said.
NZ Post Wellington Super Depot Manager Shirley Povey says her team are very excited to work from the new depot. “The Wellington Super Depot has a processing floor of just over 10,000 square metres – that’s bigger than the size of a rugby field, or 8 Olympic sized swimming pools – and will process up to 11,000 parcels per hour. These will be sorted for our couriers using our new automated system, which sends thousands of parcels to the correct chute ready for our couriers to load up and deliver to our customers across the region,” Povey said.
Source: NZ Post