• Amazon adding lockers for customers at 7-Elevens and drug stores
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[img]http://i.imgur.com/pZjsR.jpg[/img] [quote]SAN DIEGO (NBC) -- If you are concerned about a valuable package sitting at your front door all day, how about having it delivered to your local 7-Eleven? That is the solution being offered by online retail giant Amazon. "I think it is a brilliant idea," said San Diego State marketing professor Steven Osinski, "Security is a big appeal." Amazon is setting up metal lockers in 24 hour locations like convenience and drug stores and markets. Tony Khwaha is a franchise owner of four 7-Eleven stores in San Diego and just added the Amazon Lockers. "You don't have to wait at home all day long," said Khwaha, "you don't have to be concerned what you are ordering might get stolen." A shopper can pick the 7-Eleven location during checkout when ordering an item. There is no extra charge for using the locker, but there is a size and weight limit of 10lbs. There are 42 lockers in Khwaha's store. In the middle of the lockers is a computer screen. To pick up your item you punch in the code number that you received in an email from Amazon. The door opens and you're able to pick up your item. Once it is delivered, you have a limit of three days to pick it up. Amazon won't say how many of these lockers are being used across the country but they have only been in Tony Khwaja's store for a month.[/quote] [url=http://www.wcsh6.com/news/watercooler/article/216376/108/Amazon-adding-lockers-for-customers-at-7-Elevens-and-drug-stores]SOURCE & VIDEO[/url]
There is already one of these in my local 711. Been there for like two months.
now that's actually pretty cool.
What about post offices.
In Canada, Canada Post (the mail people) take the package back to the nearest post office and leave a tag at your door telling you when you can pick up your package. So, this Amazon locker thing is kind of useless.
That means some of us may as well risk a stolen package since there isn't a Seven-Eleven around here.
Sounds neat, but there aren't any 7-11s near me or real drugstores, it'd be a 20 minute drive to get to the closest one. But I'm fine though, UPS and Fedex drop off all boxes to my dad's shop along with the products he gets in, so I just bring them home at the end of the day since that's where I work.
[QUOTE=Jackald;37810646]Great, now I can finally order that 16" dragon dildo without my flatmates seeing it.[/QUOTE] Thanks for the idea
I think I'd rather take my chances with a package being left somewhere weird than the chance of someone possibly ram raiding the store and stealing a big metal cabinet full of expensive stuff or getting it delivered at a friends house.
[QUOTE=Jackald;37810646]Great, now I can finally order that 16" dragon dildo without my flatmates seeing it.[/QUOTE] [quote]There is no extra charge for using the locker, but there is a size and weight limit of ten pounds.[/quote]
[QUOTE=RoflKawpter;37810383]In Canada, Canada Post (the mail people) take the package back to the nearest post office and leave a tag at your door telling you when you can pick up your package. So, this Amazon locker thing is kind of useless.[/QUOTE] Unless the seller is an asshole and shipped UPS at which point they hold it ransom.
[QUOTE=kaine123;37810246]What about post offices.[/QUOTE] I would rather do this than use a PO, it's basically anonymous and it's free.
... I'm not sure if this is about something different, but here in Sweden all packages - regardless of sender and delivery firm - automatically get sent to the Postal Service Point located closest to the recipient, and these are found at [I]almost every gas station, convenience store or supermarket[/I], where you just show ID, put a signature and pick up the package free of charge... this doesn't exist in the US? Nice of Amazon to take initiative towards something similar.
Once again, Amazon is a brilliant company.
What if the lockers are broken into? Is your stuff insured?
[QUOTE=Saber15;37811117]What if the lockers are broken into? Is your stuff insured?[/QUOTE] did you insure it when you bought it
[QUOTE=RoflKawpter;37810383]In Canada, Canada Post (the mail people) take the package back to the nearest post office and leave a tag at your door telling you when you can pick up your package. So, this Amazon locker thing is kind of useless.[/QUOTE] It's the same here in Norway. They leave a piece of paper (in your mailbox) which you have to bring with you to the nearest post office in order to get your package.
[QUOTE=Roflkawpter;37810383]In Canada, Canada Post (the mail people) take the package back to the nearest post office and leave a tag at your door telling you when you can pick up your package. So, this Amazon locker thing is kind of useless.[/QUOTE] To expand on this: in rural areas Canada post has slightly bigger mailboxes attached to the regular mailbox structure (not sure what you call a bunch of mailboxes affixed to pavement) and if the package is small enough they issue a key to that box in your own personal mailbox. You take the key, open the bigger box, get your package, relock and put the key back in the outgoing mail slot. Its essentially the same thing as what Amazon is doing and works out well. Not sure if the same system exists in the cities since I don't live there. [editline]26th September 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=MIPS;37810758]Unless the seller is an asshole and shipped UPS at which point they hold it ransom.[/QUOTE] Or if they ship via DHL, then you can guarantee that it will arrive broken.
[QUOTE=kaine123;37810246]What about post offices.[/QUOTE] Post offices in the UK (where you can get them dropped off if you're not in or w/e) actually shut at about 1pm. So if you're at school or work theres no chance, have it dropped off at a local store though really anytime is good
Aw yes, I love my local 7 Eleven's. They're staffed with very nice people.
[QUOTE=RoflKawpter;37810383]In Canada, Canada Post (the mail people) take the package back to the nearest post office and leave a tag at your door telling you when you can pick up your package. So, this Amazon locker thing is kind of useless.[/QUOTE] That also happens in the United States, but only if you specifically request it. The carrier service will likely attempt to deliver it the following day, or you can go pick it up at the distribution center for the carrier. Otherwise they just leave it, usually somewhere inconspicuous. You can talk to your delivery person and request a specific spot. Having to go pick up packages if I'm not home or don't answer the door would be a huge pain in the ass.
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