> ...which looks like the offspring between an ATM machine and a safety deposit box. The author evidently has never seen a modern transit station locker system

> ...which looks like the offspring between an ATM machine and a safety deposit box. The author evidently has never seen a modern transit station locker system. (Admittedly less common now that lockers have been removed from airports.) At Union Station in Chicago there is a wall of lockers that looks almost exactly like this; all your interactions with choosing and locking and unlocking a locker are done with the computer kiosk in the middle (which, in that case, has a credit card reader). Amazon is surely not using custom hardware for this (or at least, not from-scratch custom), just reprogramming what's out there.