Interestingly, Amazon also runs the "Amazon Locker"[0] service in the US, which sounds much like the "paczkomat" you describe.
0. http://www.amazon.com/b/ref=amb_link_366591722_2?encoding=UTF8&node=6442600011Yeah, we have quite a few of those in small shops around the UK (in my city atleast).
Slightly offtopic rant
Amazon offered my universities students union the chance to install some inside the union (e.g. to help students who are at lectures during the day/don't trust flatmates etc), however the union council (who are elected to serve the students interest) voted with a majority against the idea because of how little corporate tax Amazon pays. Ironically, the students union website is hosted on AWS, but they're able to overlook that.
Yup, that's it! See:
http://dailyweb.pl/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Paczkomat-InPo...
Same in Ireland, http://www.parcelmotel.com/
Delivers cheaper to Ireland when buying from the UK as a lot of UK vendors offer free delivery domestically.
Also allows shipping between their pickup box locations.
Oversize items go to a local depo that's open until 8pm so convenient overall.
This is godsend for people who work standard hours. I buy on-line quite often, and whenever (90% of cases) there's an option, I pick up a paczkomat on my route home (big cities have a lot of them; mine has something around 50). If a particular shop doesn't offer this type of delivery, I order it to work.
Sadly, post office is no longer an option for me - they work standard hours, and only during Monday - Friday, which makes it hard to pick up anything there. In other words, I have to come late every time something big from Aliexpress comes.
EDIT:
> What I don't understand, is why I can't pick my delivery slot for free.
s/free/a fee/, and I think it could work. For large enough values of "a fee".