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For packages wouldn't selling a mailbox with this smart lock system make much more sense than full access to the entire house?
by kleff 9y ago
For packages wouldn't selling a mailbox with this smart lock system make much more sense than full access to the entire house?
- dkrich 9y agoNobody but the USPS is allowed to put anything in or remove anything from a mailbox. If you're talking about a separate locker, not a bad idea but I'd assume that would be a lot more costly than replacing your lock and also would introduce all sorts of variability about size and where it would be placed.
- mholmes680 9y agoYes, I assumed Amazon Shed as a personal outside-the-home locker would have been next, but installing a key and camera does seem probably cheaper.
- bayouborne 9y agoYes, or a strong-box that interlocks with a closed exterior door. Amazon's no longer content to just metaphorically want access to our homes and lives, now they actually want in..
- calgoo 9y agoLike the dvd rental return boxes in movie rental stores.
- toabi 9y agoDHL in Germany offers sth. like that: https://www.dhl.de/de/privatkunden/pakete-empfangen/pakete-zuhause-empfangen/paketkasten.html https://www.dhl.de/de/privatkunden/pakete-empfangen/pakete-z... - without the smarts.
- chrisper 9y agoAmazon has lockerboxes too.
- toabi 9y agoWhich you can put in front of your house? In Germany "Amazon Locker" just lets you deliver to post stations where you then can fetch it.
- chrisper 9y agoMy bad. From the URL I thought it was about Packstation. That's what Amazon Lockers are. But in the US there are apartments that have something like a "Packstation" for residents only.