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How many people who use Amazon frequently work at home or have a spouse/partner at home during the day? I would love to use Amazon for the bulk of my purchases,
by querulous 15y ago
How many people who use Amazon frequently work at home or have a spouse/partner at home during the day? I would love to use Amazon for the bulk of my purchases, but I can't take delivery at work and there is no one to receive packages at my home during the day. It's completely infeasible for me to use Amazon except for occaisonal orders where it is worth taking time to stay home or visit the UPS depot to actually receive my orders.
Until Amazon solves this problem, they're not a serious competitor to traditional retail.
- trapexit 15y agohttp://consumerist.com/2011/09/amazon-testing-locker-system-that-would-let-you-pick-up-your-package-at-7-11.html http://consumerist.com/2011/09/amazon-testing-locker-system-...
- ghaff 15y agoDepends where you live. With rare exceptions, for better of worse, shippers just leave packages at my door. (Or in the case of USPS hanging from my mailbox because the carrier doesn't want to take the time to drive down my driveway---grr.) Sometimes I have to sign a signature release form left on my door. But very rarely do I have to go to the post office or UPS depot, which I agree would be a real pain if I had to do it for every mail order purchase.
- macinthebox2 15y agoUPS has something called My Choice that lets you see when packages are arriving, schedule their delivery etc. There's supposedly a free version. http://www.ups.com/mychoice http://www.ups.com/mychoice