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Deliveries are still a pain right now because you have to be present at the destination to receive the package. Or you have to fetch the package yourself at a d
by zimbatm 12y ago
Deliveries are still a pain right now because you have to be present at the destination to receive the package. Or you have to fetch the package yourself at a designed location. I believe that a lot of Internet sales are lost to local businesses because of that.
In the future it will be common for homes to have a drop point that accepts larger parcels than mail. It will be a feature that people are going to look for when renting/buying homes. With that in place and a good standard drone delivery will also become more practical for the last mile.
Ideally someone would step up and develop a standard similar to what happened to shipping containers. That would help the adoption tremendously.
- rmc 12y agoDo we need a standard? We could do this now. Just put something like a postbox at your front door where you can put parcels in, but not out (without a key). But people aren't doing that now. Why not?
- zimbatm 12y agoFrom what I have seen people do arrange drop points once they get to know the delivery guy. If the guy leaves to another location it has to be arranged again with the new guy. By having a standard UPS/.. could be notified that you have a "A1" container available. Any parcel that fits in that container can be delivered without arranging a meeting time. It could be done today in rural households but in cities, room would need to be made for these new containers.