Australia’s first consumer-focused pick-up and delivery service saves Australians valuable time and effort
Sendle.com is a new company aiming to disrupt Australia’s postal monopoly by unlocking door-to-door parcel delivery services for consumers. Sendle’s online booking system provides a simple posting experience for both sender and receiver, and in an Australian first, lets users choose who’ll pay for delivery – perfect for online marketplaces such as eBay, Gumtree and Trading Post. With Sendle, consumers save the time and hassle of going to the post office, while ensuring the safe and reliable delivery of their packages.
Sendle estimates between 30-40 million parcels are sent between Australians each year, and collectively we are wasting millions of hours travelling to and queuing up at the local post office.
“Much of our current postage system was built hundreds of years ago and doesn’t address the needs of today’s consumers. The monopoly services and traditional postage models that we’ve become accustomed to are time consuming, inconvenient and outdated,” says Sendle Co-Founder and CEO James Bradfield Moody. “With Sendle, we’ve had the opportunity to rethink package delivery, building an efficient and easy to use service that means Australians never have to line up to send a parcel again.”
Sendle uses a network of delivery providers based around Australia to pick up and deliver packages, unlocking courier services to the general public and making use of idle resources. Sendle’s partners are trusted delivery providers who already ship more than 30 million packages each year.
“Thanks to e-commerce, we currently have millions of parcels delivered to suburbs all around Australia, but the delivery vehicles often return empty-handed,” says Moody. “Sendle gets a great deal by using the idle capacity in these networks to pick up parcels from the consumer’s doorstep.”
Sendle is backed by a number of investors including the National Roads and Motorists’ Association (NRMA). “Many companies are focussed on delivery for e-commerce,” says NRMA’s General Manager of Strategy and Innovation Michael Pastega. “What we love about Sendle is that they have focused on solving the first mile of parcel delivery, which is the most important thing for consumers.”
Sendle ultimately has global ambitions, with an eye on the 8 billion parcels that are sent between consumers every year. “Our priority is to sort out parcel delivery in Australia first – we all have better things to do with our time than stand in line,” says Moody.
Pricing and Availability:
Sendle’s flat rate pricing is simple and comparable to existing post office prices: AU $9.75 for intra-city packages and AU $17.60 between major Australian cities.
Sendle can pickup and deliver packages up to 10kg. Users can send anything the size of carry-on luggage: books, clothes, small appliances, bottles of wine and even travel prams.
Sendle currently operates within and between the following Australian cities and their suburbs (with more to come soon): Adelaide, Brisbane, Canberra, Gold Coast, Gosford, Melbourne, Newcastle, Sunshine Coast, and Sydney.
About Sendle.com
Sendle is changing the way people send and receive packages with its easy to use door-to-door pickup and delivery service. Sendle was founded in 2014 by James Bradfield Moody, Co-Founder and CEO of TuShare and formerly Executive Director, Development at the CSIRO. James was also a long time judge on ABC’s New Inventors TV show and co-author of the bestselling book The Sixth Wave: How to succeed in a resource-limited world.
Sendle is headquartered in Sydney, Australia. www.Sendle.com