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Who are they polling? I think there's a fairly limited amount of people who would really want this, and lot of people who wouldn't. You need to live in a city,
by imgabe 9y ago
Who are they polling? I think there's a fairly limited amount of people who would really want this, and lot of people who wouldn't.
You need to live in a city, but not in an apartment building, which is a pretty small (and wealthy) proportion of people. If you live in the suburbs or the country, you probably don't mind leaving packages on the porch. In the city if you don't have a doorman, a package is almost guaranteed to get stolen.
Homicidal maniacs who want to kill total strangers for no reason are pretty rare. Packages thieves are ubiquitous.
- k_sh 9y ago> In the city if you don't have a doorman, a package is almost guaranteed to get stolen. I'm guessing you're in NYC? Doormen are not common in LA/SF.
- djrogers 9y ago> In the city if you don't have a doorman, a package is almost guaranteed to get stolen. That’s taking a pretty narrow view of ‘the city’ - very few places on the west coast have a doorman for example (I’ve never actually seen one), and there are plenty of cities where you could have a package not stolen. Of course if your definition of a ‘city’ only includes Manhattan then you may be correct.
- always_good 9y agoI'm not sure what your point is. Theft doesn't have to be a common event for it to ruin your day once it does happen to you.
- ng12 9y agoNot sure why you're singling out Manhattan: Queens and Brooklyn are famously unsafe for packages. Even when I lived in the Sunset (the sleepy half of SF) I had packages go missing. In fact I would argue that if a package can reliably last 8 hours on your porch you don't live in a city (at least for the purposes of this discussion).
- eli 9y agoActually I think there's a big opportunity for Amazon to convince the building management or condo boards of non-doorman apartment buildings that this is something they want.