ie things you’d think the gammons scaring themselves shitless about the concept would care about
When I order something online (as long as it isn’t something huge like a grand piano), it gets delivered to a nearby corner shop or supermarket, either to be held by staff or placed into an automated locker that opens via code you get sent via text message
Very convenient and I don’t need to worry about being home when the mailman’s at my door and there’s less need for delivery vans to drive to specific addresses
The delivery person isn’t the person smashing your packages, I can assure you that mostly happens in the hubs.
source: husband works for UPS
I was referring to reddit videos of delivery guys yeeting packages from the sidewalk to the front door, etc, filmed on Amazon panopticon devices
They might not have been UPS guys
Edit: I also don’t believe this is some major issue, I just brought it up as an example of the sort of thing a paranoid suburbanite reactionary worries about that would actually be alleviated by living in a sensibly designed city
I’ve got a question, do Americans have no awareness of the concept of a Paczkomat? In Poland thanks to InPost they’ve grown all over the country like mushrooms after it raining. So much so even some backwater villages have them and they operate usually quicker, safer, cheaper, and more reliably than the Polish Post. However it is the countless problems with the Post that makes them better.
Like I know you’ve mentioned them but I mean the general public, like how alien to them is such a concept? Because honestly I wouldn’t be able to live without them.
we sorta have this in the US but only in limited areas and it’s sorta worse because its so spotty. I’ve had packages randomly be redirected to a local corner store, a (much farther away) local fedex facility, a fedex store downtown, a fedex store like 20 miles out of town, etc. I think UPS has the better system iirc. But mostly things are just left in my building entryway by the mailboxes and that’s fine by me, never had anything stolen as long as it made it inside the building (which USPS and UPS do, amazon I think does somehow, not sure about fedex)
I hate saying this, but it used to be worse about 5-10 years ago when we still had local post offices and less private delivery companies.
Instead of text messages, the mailman would ring your doorbell, and if you weren’t home, they’d leave a note with your regular mail telling you which post office you could go get your package from the following weekday, and you’d often need to take a bus just to get there.
Now that every supermarket and corner shop is a possible pick-up point you’ll most likely be able to get your package during your grocery run 7 days a week
I did get one package recently that was some random supermarket a few kilometers away but that was like 15 minutes on my bike
