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Re:A new locker system from Amazon sends your deliveries to ... by jrockway on Saturday September 03, 2011 @04:21AM (#2956846)
Sex toys from Amazon come in the same packaging that your vitamin pills and toilet paper do. Nobody would know what you're getting unless they opened the outer box, which is something they're not allowed to do.

I kind of like this service because it doesn't involve any human interaction, which I hate. Whenever I get a package at my house, it goes to the mail room, where I have to make small talk with the package guy. Since I get something from Amazon nearly every day (yay for subscribe & save), this is awkward. Having some magical locker where I could get packages would be amazing.

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Re:A new locker system from Amazon sends your deliveries to ... by wisty on Saturday September 03, 2011 @05:23AM (#2956951)
It's also good for people who don't have a mail guy, and just get a "while you were away" note on your door, forcing you to get depot.

In Australia, the post depots are open 8:30-5:00 weekdays, and 9:12 Saturday. Tough luck if you happen to be busy then.

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Re:A new locker system from Amazon sends your deliveries to ... by gmac on Saturday September 03, 2011 @07:38AM (#2957105)
Absolutely. It's even worse for the cheapo courier services that are often used -- in central London, these can be a 90-minute journey away, and keep the same sorts of hours you mention.
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Re:A new locker system from Amazon sends your deliveries to ... by iaskwhy on Saturday September 03, 2011 @12:23PM (#2957542)
Yap. Just went this morning to the depot closer to my home which is around one hour away (and that's because I use the DLR, otherwise I would walk for maybe those 90 minutes you talk about). This for two DVDs...

I'm avoiding buying stuff because of this.

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Re:A new locker system from Amazon sends your deliveries to ... by avree on Saturday September 03, 2011 @06:19AM (#2957034)
I'm not sure if that's true. I have a subscription to toilet paper and paper towels on Amazon, and they often arrive just in the box of the product, with clear branding on the outside.
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Re:A new locker system from Amazon sends your deliveries to ... by dangrossman on Saturday September 03, 2011 @07:19AM (#2957093)
It's true, speaking from experience. Both Amazon and the sex toy sellers are aware that most people would want those packages to be discrete.
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Re:A new locker system from Amazon sends your deliveries to ... by joezydeco on Saturday September 03, 2011 @01:36PM (#2957702)
That made me think: if Amazon is putting these products directly in the locker, do they even need to wrap it in packaging? It surely would save them money and time, although then it's more checking on the part of the guy loading things into the lockers.
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Re:A new locker system from Amazon sends your deliveries to ... by Aga on Saturday September 03, 2011 @10:27PM (#2958651)
I'm not sure it would save them money. Packaging all the various stuff (in various shapes!) uniformly greatly streamlines the shipping process. It makes the stuff easier to store (in warehouses and during shipping) and handle. Bar-codes/RFID's can also be placed conveniently to speed-up handling.
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Re:A new locker system from Amazon sends your deliveries to ... by joezydeco on Sunday September 04, 2011 @11:45AM (#2959555)
Good point, their order assembly is pretty automated and this would be a huge change to that.
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Re:A new locker system from Amazon sends your deliveries to ... by kiiski on Saturday September 03, 2011 @06:28AM (#2957048)
No, it's just normal for some people. He probably doesn't mean all human interaction, but rather just the pointless (or awkward) interaction.
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