I recently found myself looking at contemporary styled letter boxes, including some at $900ish that were quickly ruled out. It felt utterly stupid to be spending even $100 on something used to receive letters, all of which might be bills, advertising or invitations too formal to arrive by email.
It's interesting that we aren't being pitched package boxes with one way delivery and security keypads, etc.
I don't get why either. Just have a drop box like in the old days when ice used to be delivered house to house into the icebox via a little locked door the iceman had the key too.
Although with these, I don't see why window box style package drops wouldn't appear. All it would have to be is a rigid mesh frame so it's not affected by wind/rain/snow, which would also make it light weight so it could be constructed easily large enough for the mini helicopters to make drops into. Put the QR codes on a sticker that goes on the window like an alarm company sticker.
I know the first response will be "that'll never happen", but it would allow package delivery any time, anywhere. Live on the 5th floor of a walk up? Your new game will be waiting right outside your window when you get home.
I honestly imagine there would be high demand for this for courier services.
The lack of these in big cities is especially perplexing, since theft is a larger concern than in the suburbs. Why doesn't my apartment in NYC have a one-way drop box for delivery?
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Roof-mounted miniature helipad mailboxes, painted with QR codes. Really, why don't houses already have package receptacles for UPS and FedEx?
I recently found myself looking at contemporary styled letter boxes, including some at $900ish that were quickly ruled out. It felt utterly stupid to be spending even $100 on something used to receive letters, all of which might be bills, advertising or invitations too formal to arrive by email.
It's interesting that we aren't being pitched package boxes with one way delivery and security keypads, etc.
I don't get why either. Just have a drop box like in the old days when ice used to be delivered house to house into the icebox via a little locked door the iceman had the key too.
Although with these, I don't see why window box style package drops wouldn't appear. All it would have to be is a rigid mesh frame so it's not affected by wind/rain/snow, which would also make it light weight so it could be constructed easily large enough for the mini helicopters to make drops into. Put the QR codes on a sticker that goes on the window like an alarm company sticker.
I know the first response will be "that'll never happen", but it would allow package delivery any time, anywhere. Live on the 5th floor of a walk up? Your new game will be waiting right outside your window when you get home.
I honestly imagine there would be high demand for this for courier services.
The lack of these in big cities is especially perplexing, since theft is a larger concern than in the suburbs. Why doesn't my apartment in NYC have a one-way drop box for delivery?