A Simple Solution to Your Lost and Delayed Parcels – SnooCODE
Fig. 1 Deliveryman making a delivery at customer's front door, using SnooCODE. (To the left) SnooCODE address plaque on customer’s front wall.
When I was a teenager, about 14 years old, I made my first big separation from my family. I started my journey as a senior high student in the boarding house. This was about 10 years ago. Technology wasn’t as advanced then as it is now. For example, whenever I needed something from home, it was sent via a commercial bus at a fee. This came with so many inconveniences. Fragile items were sometimes mishandled, food took hours to be delivered and sometimes arrived in deplorable state. In cases where I was unavailable or had to meet the bus mid-way, I often had to chase the bus drivers for my package, which sometimes took days.
Wondering why my family and I didn’t simply send the parcels through the national post offices? Well, ironically, sending items through the commercial buses was faster than via the post offices.
Times have changed now, and there has been significant growth in technology and innovation. The solution to the problems we encountered when sending and receiving parcels in the past have been integrated into one simple, yet powerful innovation – SnooCODE.
SnooCODE is a digital addressing system that allows anybody anywhere to generate a memorable 5–7-digit alphanumeric address code unique to their location (e.g., Accra 5CJ-5UZ), which can be saved and shared with trusted contacts to direct them to their exact location using any mobile phone mapping system of their choice.
SnooCODE is built to work offline, making it ideal for challenging environments where network connectivity may be unreliable or unavailable. Parcel recipients can now say bye-bye to meeting parcel delivery agents halfway and receiving their incessant calls for directions.
With SnooCODE, postal services will be able to work more efficiently, particularly with the system’s additional capabilities of route optimization, verification, and compatibility new and emerging technologies like drones and driverless cars.
SnooCODE optimizes routes at the touch of a button to show the quickest way to visit all locations and cover all assigned territory in the shortest possible time, thereby reducing the time spent on road and increasing the number of deliveries done in a day. In field tests, SnooCODE outperformed DHL’s route optimisation systems by an average 19.6%, and in some cases, an increase as high as 38%.
The verification system also helps check the state in which a package leaves the postal office, the time it leaves, when it reaches the location and the state in which it arrives. Should the package be mishandled before arriving, it will easily be detected.
Lastly, SnooCODE’s compatibility with new and emerging technologies like drones and driverless cars makes drone deliveries to remote and hard-to-reach areas very easy and efficient.
Just like that, SnooCODE has solved the biggest problems in the postal systems in just one app!
SnooCODE is currently available in every country all around the world and available to download on Android and iOS.
Contribute to a fast and innovative postal sector with SnooCODE!
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