It's actually sad that it's amazon specific. I'd love to see this rather implemented for the post services like USPS/UPS. In Germany, we have DHL Packstation and you can just have it shipped to those location and pick up your package 24/7. It started getting a bunch of locations in 2004 and nowadays they have them every ~300-500m around big towns (like Munich for instance).
Yeah, Packstaton is fantastic. It's basically a free PO box.
I'm sure it works out well for DHL not only because they spend less time driving around delivering packages, but also because I now try very hard to avoid any online retailer that doesn't ship via DHL.
Amazon Locker looks great - though it's not ubiquitous. The closest one is probably a 1 hour drive (with light traffic) and I live in a major metropolitan area in the US.
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Why not use Amazon Lockers [1]?
It's actually sad that it's amazon specific. I'd love to see this rather implemented for the post services like USPS/UPS. In Germany, we have DHL Packstation and you can just have it shipped to those location and pick up your package 24/7. It started getting a bunch of locations in 2004 and nowadays they have them every ~300-500m around big towns (like Munich for instance).
[1] http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=locker_hp_fd?docId...
Yeah, Packstaton is fantastic. It's basically a free PO box.
I'm sure it works out well for DHL not only because they spend less time driving around delivering packages, but also because I now try very hard to avoid any online retailer that doesn't ship via DHL.
Amazon Locker looks great - though it's not ubiquitous. The closest one is probably a 1 hour drive (with light traffic) and I live in a major metropolitan area in the US.