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I much prefer an Amazon Locker, or the equivalent postal self-service lockers in my country. I hate the synchronicity of home deliveries. Either I'm at work and

by yason 9y ago

I much prefer an Amazon Locker, or the equivalent postal self-service lockers in my country. I hate the synchronicity of home deliveries. Either I'm at work and not home, or somewhere else but not home. And if I'm home I still have to plan around the expected delivery to be around so that I can sign it off. With self-pickups it easy. Once I know the package has been delivered I'll just do a little bit of planning to get it on my way next time I'm out. Deliveries are hard. That's why all logistics and delivery companies are famous for giving bad service because it's nearly impossible to repeatedly do well on such an unforgiving line of work. And this is from companies that have decades of experience to organise deliveries. I'm not holding my breath with Amazon's own deliveries.

jessriedel 9y ago
"Little bit of planning" is not easy for me, or for anyone who values the immediacy of Prime. The obvious solution is to have lockers at homes, i.e., a secured box on your property that only delivery people to whom you've given a code can open. You can even introduce this concurrently with smart locks, so people who feel comfortable with it can just give the delivery guy a one-time code that opens the front door. I know this has been experimented with, and I'm sure their are challenges, bit I've never been able to understand how it hasn't been worth solving.
- wallacoloo 9y ago
  > The obvious solution is to have lockers at homes It's not uncommon to see this around dense housing. I've seen apartments where each unit has a small mail box, and there are (say) a dozen larger lockers off to the side. When USPS needs to deliver a package, they put it in one of the lockers, and then put the key to that locker in the recipient's mail box. I suppose the system assumes that none of your neighbors clone those keys, but it seems at least a step in the right direction.

by yason 9y ago

jessriedel 9y ago

"Little bit of planning" is not easy for me, or for anyone who values the immediacy of Prime. The obvious solution is to have lockers at homes, i.e., a secured box on your property that only delivery people to whom you've given a code can open. You can even introduce this concurrently with smart locks, so people who feel comfortable with it can just give the delivery guy a one-time code that opens the front door. I know this has been experimented with, and I'm sure their are challenges, bit I've never been able to understand how it hasn't been worth solving.

wallacoloo 9y ago
> The obvious solution is to have lockers at homes It's not uncommon to see this around dense housing. I've seen apartments where each unit has a small mail box, and there are (say) a dozen larger lockers off to the side. When USPS needs to deliver a package, they put it in one of the lockers, and then put the key to that locker in the recipient's mail box. I suppose the system assumes that none of your neighbors clone those keys, but it seems at least a step in the right direction.