The average cost of one post office of foreign production is 10-15 thousand dollars. This price is due to the fact that the post office was originally created by the joint efforts of the Austrian automation company KEBA and the DHL courier service in Germany. The post office turned out with excessive technical and electronic characteristics. The weight of the post office building is almost 5 tons. As you understand, the price is corresponding. China does not come up with anything new, it simply copies. Therefore, Chinese-made post offices are cheaper than Austrian ones, but due to copying the basic principles of design and configuration, they still turn out to be unreasonably expensive.
It is also necessary to take into account that all manufacturers of postal machines are foreign companies, which means a strong influence of the exchange rate on the price + expensive delivery and customs clearance.
Due to its high cost, the post office payback period is more than one year, thereby making the attractiveness of investments in network development quite dubious. It is also necessary to understand that the post offices will work only if they are mass distributed. This is at least at least 50-100 postal complexes in million-plus cities.
A post office machine based on a computer locker is an affordable solution for courier and transport services, online stores. Due to the fact that the equipment was created from an "affordable solution" of an automatic locker to a multifunctional computer locker - a post office machine, we received equipment that is 3-4 times cheaper than their counterparts. Thus created an attractive field for investment. Our equipment has a payback period of 6-9 months.
We succeeded in reducing the cost of the post office machine without loss of quality thanks to:
- The creation of a completely new design of buildings;
- Refusal to use expensive industrial controllers with their excess characteristics and their replacement with controllers of their own design;
- The use of inexpensive, but high-quality and reliable components. Not brands are important, but reliability;
- Refusal of established patterns and the development of new solutions;
- Placement of the entire production cycle in Ukraine, which reduced absolutely all costs;
- Competent selection of people in the team.
