French postal organisation La Poste asked Hoza to develop a highly effective movable post sorting cabinet. Thanks to its user-friendliness and the flexible availability of this cabinet, La Poste was able to add an attractive product to its product brochure.

French postal company La Poste set up its new logistics chain to lower costs. Part of this process was to find a way to transport sorted mail from the sorting centre to the post offices. In order to satisfy this request, Hoza developed an innovative, charismatic solution that decreases total cost of ownership considerably.

In the distribution or sorting centre, this new product is filled with mail, locked and then transported to the post office, where it can be used in two ways: on one side it can be used as a wheeled postbox, from which the postman can take valuable mail; the other side can be used as a postbox in unmanned post offices. Consumers can use their own key to take out their mail from their private box. The wheeled cabinet allows the room in which it is placed, to be used in a flexible manner. 

The tender that was put out by La Poste was won by Hoza based on design and cost. It was a deliberate decision to choose a practical design, with a modular construction and durable materials that have been proven in the market.

We have joined our solid design to a project organisation just as reliable. During the design stage, all levels of the La Poste organisation were involved. Despite many conflicting interests, we were able to make the right decisions, thanks to our extensive knowledge of the postal sector. Hoza knows how to switch and is not afraid to introduce alternatives, based on experience, when we are convinced that this will improve a product.

La Poste makes use of a product brochure, in which the post cabinet is offered to its end-users – post offices and postmen and women – so they can decide for themselves if they want to purchase this logistics item. Therefore it was essential that both user-friendliness and expectations match with the product in order to be a success. It has been a great success: maybe too successful, as the product is now used in a different way – effectively it has evolved to serve more than its original purpose! Hoza prides itself on continuous improvement and state of the art product design. Based on this new usage, Hoza redeveloped the product, so it can be used in even more ways in the future.