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Re:Amazon’s Next-Day Delivery System Has Brought Chaos to Am... by devy on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @03:11PM (#20870029)
Same-day-delivery is kinda solved in other countries - read more on stories of Meituan[1] or JD.com[2]. Granted, the labor cost, infrastructure are different. But answer is probably not gig-economy delivery but self-serve lockboxes, robots or drones. By the way, delivery workforce use electric mopeds, not diesel vans like we do here in America.

[1] https://www.scmp.com/tech/apps-social/article/3025295/meitua...

[2]: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/jdcom-speeds-packag...

Re:Amazon’s Next-Day Delivery System Has Brought Chaos to Am... by kelnos on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @03:32PM (#20870261)
I really wish I could pick up Amazon packages at a lockbox. I live in San Francisco, and Amazon's checkout process tells me the closest location I could pick up a package is at Berkeley's student union, across the bay, which is a good 30-40 minute drive (each way) unless I'm very lucky with bridge traffic. It's an hour using transit, including two transfers and 15 minutes of walking, which isn't really doable if I have anything but the smallest of packages to pick up.

I get that real estate is expensive in SF, but it's a little insane we can't do local pickups. It would be cool if Amazon could make an arrangement to drop packages off at USPS post offices; there's one a few blocks from me. Not as convenient as delivery to my apartment, but eliminates problems around package theft and delivery drivers unable to get into my building.

Re:Amazon’s Next-Day Delivery System Has Brought Chaos to Am... by justinv on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @06:11PM (#20871749)
Where do you live in San Francisco? There are tons of Amazon Lockers there where you could pick up a package.

Here is a search on Google Maps.

https://www.google.com/maps/search/Amazon+Lockers/@37.758045...

Re:Amazon’s Next-Day Delivery System Has Brought Chaos to Am... by mrep on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @03:45PM (#20870399)
Maybe ask your local whole foods to add some Amazon lockers? They added those to the whole foods next to me.
Re:Amazon’s Next-Day Delivery System Has Brought Chaos to Am... by hackeraccount on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @04:50PM (#20871020)
They don't have lockers in those Amazon Go store's? That is très weird.