Table Of Contents
Shipping services
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Next-day delivery
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Multi-modal delivery
Special services
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Returns Solutions
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Advertising Services
Technology services
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Shipping Manager for businesses
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Barcode Tracking services
About Bpost
Bpost or Belgian Post Group is the postal service responsible for national and international mail services in Belgium. The postal service offers customizable and sustainable delivery solutions to individuals and businesses for a better courier ecosystem in the country. The retail and ecommerce sector in the country can take advantage of the personalized and standard options to provide better and more affordable shipping and delivery options to their customers.
Belgian Post was founded in 2000 by the State of Belgium to revamp the postal services in the country. The postal service is headquartered in Brussels, Belgium, and has a courier network that can handle deliveries to 200 countries.
The carrier has a physical presence in 10 countries spread across four continents to facilitate a smoother global transit of goods. Bpost has over 80 hubs managed by more than 36,000 workers and 11,00 postmen who oversee and handle the carrier's supply chain. The CVC Capital firm acquired a 49.99% stake in Belgian Post for 300 million euros.
The Belgian Post is a modern-day postal service that uses its physical infrastructure to provide multiple delivery modes. Recipients can collect their parcels from the post offices, collection points, or doorsteps at their convenience. To enable faster and quicker deliveries, the postal service does offer express shipping that allows you to opt for next-day delivery within Belgium. The postal service also offers returns services and management to serve the needs of the growing ecommerce sector in the country.
On the side, Belgian Post does offer advertising services to businesses that allow them to send their marketing and outreach material to the masses. This targeted marketing service has been in practice for years and can show better results than many modern-day methods. You can opt to send registered physical or electronic mail to safeguard sensitive information.
Belgian Post offers a special shipping manager dashboard to business customers to enable better order and delivery management. You can allow customers to track their parcels from the website or add a tracking barcode on your website that contains all the information about the tracking updates. ClickPost has a shipping API Integration with Belgian Post to enable better shipping and tracking services.
FAQs about Bpost
1) How long does bpost take to deliver?
Belgian Post offers next-day delivery for domestic deliveries. Through the Standard option, it will take Bpost to deliver 2-3 business days to deliver the parcels. For international shipments, 15-25 business days are expected since it can be a slow process.
2) How to create a Shipping Label?
To generate a shipping label with Belgian Post, you will have to go to the parcel section of the Bpost website. Choose the service through which you want to send the shipment and the delivery mode according to your customer’s preference. Alternatively, you can generate the shipping label from the shipping manager dashboard.
API | Description |
Manifestation and shipping label generation API: |
Create order on Courier Partner, fetch waybill and shipping label and place pickup request |
Track Shipment API: | Track your Bpost shipment using AWB and Courier Partner |
Cancellation API | Cancel shipment manifested on Courier Partner for faster returns |
EDD API: | Show estimated delivery date for shipments on the order checkout page |
NDR Action update: | Updates the after NDR action directly on courier company’s database |
Return Web-hooks: | Track your return shipment using AWB and Courier Partner using web-hooks |
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