Re:Ring Doorbell App Packed with Third-Party Trackers
by kingosticks on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @09:39AM
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All of that. Additionally, Royal Mail stuff goes to the local sorting office which for most people is pretty close by. Services like "Click and Collect" let you deliver your parcels to local shops. Amazon don't want to support that because it's a cost they cannot control.
It is true that the local depot for other parcel service (DPD etc) can be quite far away, but those services usually offer a a number of repeat delivery attempts or an option to leave with a neighbour.
The number of working adults in a household is irrelevant to delivering parcels securely.
Re:Ring Doorbell App Packed with Third-Party Trackers
by JohnFen on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @01:51PM
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> send it to an amazon locker and pick it up on the way home.
That's not always a realistic option. I'd have to go pretty far out of my way to get to the nearest Amazon locker. And it only works if your packages are coming from Amazon.
-send it to your workplace if it is allowed
-send it to an amazon locker and pick it up on the way home.
If you have it sent to your house and you're not in, a lot of the time it gets dropped off at a neighbours house. I've taken in a few parcels when I've been working from home.