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> After a bit of time on-line retail flourish while mails became emails. In dense city, EU level density, it's a nightmare. First delivery vehicles need to be b
by piva00 2y ago
> After a bit of time on-line retail flourish while mails became emails. In dense city, EU level density, it's a nightmare. First delivery vehicles need to be bigger and there is no place for them to stop and deliver, delivery to single home can be quick enough for a stop&go but for a condo where you might have 5-8 parcels and the delivery man it's not alone, another have also some parcels to deliver in the very same place at the very same time it's a big issue. It's an even bigger issue inside: the mailbox area is just a wall, there is no room for enough space for parcels, so it's next to impossible delivering them in a common place in an already built condo. Few might be adapted but most simply can't. Single family homes with a bit of ground around on contrary have no issues, switching from a small mailbox to a bigger parcel box is just a matter of cutting a bit more fence and insert the new "big box". It's a very simple change in society and dense cities can't adapt. Drone delivery? Try to imaging a flying drone delivering to a balcony in a condo, it's can't work, while there is not much issues having on the same big parcel box a "special" roof for drone delivery with a very visible address mark for them. Flying cars? Well, if you have a garden adapting a place for landing it's not really an issue, in a dense city? I'm curious those who have written https://www.easa.europa.eu/sites/default/files/dfu/uam-full- https://www.easa.europa.eu/sites/default/files/dfu/uam-full-... what they have in their head... Even if we had eVTOLs today they are ALL but urban. They would be a perfect match for a spread area where there is room for take off and landing, and the quick run by air help to be "dense" while being spread. Back to today just see how much metros costs and how limited they are, how many parking issue, how impossible is to convert multi-storey buildings to the Green New Deal: no room for enough p.v., no root for proper heat-pump heating and so on.
Why go through all this convoluted solution when there's already a very convenient one (which I use almost daily): get parcels delivered to your nearest packet station, it could be a small corner shop (like at least 3 in my 800m radius), a larger grocer, or even automated cabinet boxes where you receive a code and pick it up.
This system works, you get your parcels conveniently delivered close by and just walk there to pick it up. No hassles or convoluted stuff like drone delivery or post workers having to deliver to each building.
- kkfx 2y ago> This system works, you get your parcels conveniently delivered close by and just walk there to pick it up. If the parcel is lightweight, it does not rain or snow, and those who get parcels are not too much because shops have a bit of room for parcels but not too much. Now imaging getting a washing machine or a fridge with this system. This system is a workaround working enough today since on-line retail is popular but not the most common solution to buy anything. In a not so far future though it will be common to buy foods, ANYTHING via web so, this system will not work anymore. Of course stores will probably disappear so there might be room for something else but anything get more and more complex, and still there is no viable solution for the green new deal. Already today I get Amazon delivered quickly here in the means than in a few dense cities "around here" (well, quoted because there are not much big cities around but in the dense costline in costal cities delivery is a bit slow than here, even if most parcels came from the coast).
- piva00 2y ago> If the parcel is lightweight, it does not rain or snow, and those who get parcels are not too much because shops have a bit of room for parcels but not too much. Now imaging getting a washing machine or a fridge with this system. This system is a workaround working enough today since on-line retail is popular but not the most common solution to buy anything. In a not so far future though it will be common to buy foods, ANYTHING via web so, this system will not work anymore. Of course stores will probably disappear so there might be room for something else but anything get more and more complex, and still there is no viable solution for the green new deal. I get parcels all the time during rain and snow, I live in Scandinavia, rain and snow is a constant thing for 8 months of the year, that is totally doable. How often do you think people are buying washing machines? Big items are delivered to home, no questions, but those are scheduled deliveries because no post worker is going to be dropping off your washing machine to the mailbox of the building. This system works, it's been working fine, I've bought a fridge and a stove and just scheduled a delivery where I waited at home and got my item, for the 99,9% of the other parcels I get them delivered to a packet station. The network of packet stations ensures there's enough room to deliver to the region, if needed they expand the network with more packet stations...