​In New Zealand, They’ll Now Ship KFC With Your Mail

New Zealand’s postal service his give you a finger lickin’ good resolution to its mail hunch. The NZ Put up will start delivering Kentucky Fried Rooster in an try and fight its main income loss, The Guardian stories. Within the final decade, the variety of letters despatched within the nation has halved, dropping by one million.

This state-sponsored KFC supply will start with a pilot program in Tauranga, the place the NZ Put up has been contracted to deal with the logistics of the corporate’s new residence supply service. NZ Put up has already recruited 30 supply drivers, most of whom are college students or retirees, in response to Mike Stewart, an NZ Put up spokesman. They’ll use their very own transportation and smartphones to hold out the deliveries, very similar to Uber, although Stewart says utilizing official NZ Put up autos sooner or later is “not out of the query.”

On account of the misplaced income, NZ Put up has needed to cut back the variety of supply days from six to 5 in lots of rural areas. The value of sending a medium-size bundle by FastPost, a subsequent day service, can be scheduled to rise by 50 NZ cents.

“We need to survive for an additional 100 years, however we urgently have to diversify our enterprise,” Stewart informed The Guardian. “Folks need their items on-demand delivered to their residence in 30-60 minutes. That appears to be the place the world goes. So we’ve been experimenting with the supply service for the well being sector, the development sector, and particularly hospitality. It’s an thrilling time for us.”

Immediately, I’m rooting for the USPS to begin struggling extra.