You know what really sucks ? When you come home and find you missed a package manner of speaking from USPS , UPS or FedEx . Or you come home and bump that $ 1000 gadget you arrange sitting on your front stoep where anyone could snatch it . The worst , however , is when you are in reality at household and they assume you ’re not , and do n’t even discommode ringing the doorbell . And considering many of us solve during the day , it can be a botheration in the ass to try and get to the shipping entrepot to try on and foot up a software package . So we ’re inevitably watch in an endless loop of missed delivery attempts and incommodiousness .
A Canadian company calledBufferBoxthinks they have a more elegant solution for all of this — in their home state , at least . Instead of result a missed delivery notice when you ’re not home , they just drop your package in a residential district mailbox that is electronically locked up , and will only unlock when you figure the trailing identification number and your number one wood ’s ID number . In their ideal earth , there would be one of these community mailboxes within walk aloofness of everyone ’s home base .
This is an challenging estimate to be sure , even if there are some likely roadblock . Primarily , it would be nearly unimaginable to roll out an entire infrastructure of these package pickup booth without major government funding , or all the major transportation services getting necessitate . And having these thing within walking distance seems unrealistic . Driving distance perhaps , but there ’s not a whole lot in suburban America that ’s walking length . And there will always be an odd - sized ( or shaped ) package that wo n’t fit in a BufferBox . But it does call attention to an authoritative issue : there involve to be a well path to ship and welcome parcel .
Why is it so important to come up a better method acting ? Because we use shipping services more than ever . Thanks to services likeAmazon Prime , it ’s just as easy to set up something online and wait 48 hour than it is to go seek for it in store . you may attribute that partially to the fact that we ’re all turning into a clump of slothful , chair - fused neckbeards . But honestly , on-line shopping is just more effective . Retail locations just ca n’t perhaps carry the same breadth of specialized items . So we ’re far more reliant on shipping services for indispensable goods that we postulate in our daily lives .
As it stands now , shipping companionship need to detect a way to make parcel delivery more convenient without knock off the time of their driver . Business hours are probably the worst potential time for a driver to go around and attempt to make residential speech when the creation is at the office ( but he ’s still an asshole for not bothering to phone the doorbell ) . It ’s plainly not effective . But even if it was possible to drop off every package between the hours of 6p and 9p , who ’s need to be bothered to say we would even be home ?
And I get it . Shipping is a logistic clusterfuck . There ’s no way for a company to effectively coordinate meter of speech with the handiness of receiver . But if there were a solution using impudent mailboxes like the one described above after a missed deliver endeavour , it would , at the very least , cut down on the subsequent number of stops a driver had to make , insure the surety of the package in query ( if properly implemented ) , and give recipients more flexibility as to when they could blame up their package without reverence of it being sent back to the sender . Hell , if you want , you could even put in a secure corner somewhere on the outside of your home that would be like a second letter box , and economise even more time .
But the shipping summons ca n’t keep functioning the way it is , it ’s gon na take more than just one company with a skillful idea . All the major shipping company , including the USPS , require to adopt a single standard for secure , in public - accessible dropboxes , and full commit to it . They would also need to agree on a unified stage set of trailing numbers and number one wood ID numbers . Is that even realistic ? It ’s arguable . Maybe UPS and their ilk consider this is the dumbest theme ever . But I just have it off I ’m tired of seeing those madness - inspiring sticky notes on my door . So for the love of god , package pushers , will you come up with SOMETHING — ANYTHING!—better ?
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