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You wouldn't even need one container per apartment/resident - just a reasonable number of various sized compartments. A keypad/pinpad or touch screen login wou
by allannienhuis 11y ago
You wouldn't even need one container per apartment/resident - just a reasonable number of various sized compartments. A keypad/pinpad or touch screen login would open the appropriate container for the customer. This is how Canada post handles parcel deliveries with their 'super mailboxes' (without the keypad part as they do have a small box for each unit where a key is dropped).
[edit] Authentication could be handled in a lot of different ways: QR code, RFID or other card/dongle/phone/internet based ways.
- kaybe 11y agoLike this you mean? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packstation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packstation We have those in Germany, it's quite common. Opening is done with a card and code or barcode. The article mentions countries with similar systems: Austria, Finnland, Estonia, Latvia, Poland, Canada, Australia and United Arab Emirates. edit: And not mentioned in the text but there is an image from Denmark.
- whitegrape 11y agoIn one of my previous houses (in Washington), we were on a hill with several other homes sharing the main private drive up the hill. We had a centralized apartment style mailbox with a slot for each house, and two big slots for larger packages. The postman had the same system of inserting the key for the bigger mailbox into your personal box.