Parcel Santa gets delivery into condo residents' hands 24/7

JIM Huang was working in the last-mile delivery business when Singapore Deputy Prime Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam inspired him to quit his job and start his own venture.

Specifically, it was when Mr Tharman announced in April last year that the government was looking at implementing a nationwide common parcel locker system.

These Federated Lockers, which are expected to be placed in public housing estates (after pilot tests in 2018) would help to solve a problem commonly faced by online shoppers and delivery companies - a parcel arrives for the customer but nobody is home to receive it.