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Re:Canada Post to phase out urban home mail delivery by ulfw on Wednesday December 11, 2013 @10:30PM (#6892630)
Yea but Germany isn't Silicon Valley. So no one cares. Amazon Lockers on the other hand are hyper innovative, because well... er... it's been done stateside. So it must be good. (Even though having lock boxes for each sender is completely inefficient. Do you really want to drive to your Amazon Locker, then your eBay Locker, then your Google Locker... you get the idea?)
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Re:Canada Post to phase out urban home mail delivery by thaumasiotes on Thursday December 12, 2013 @06:05AM (#6893825)
As I understood the product, your "amazon locker" was your local 7-11. I imagine there's not a major difference in efficiency between having your "amazon locker" at 7-11 along with your conceptually-different "ebay locker", vs having your unified "postal services locker" at 7-11.
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Re:Canada Post to phase out urban home mail delivery by teh_klev on Thursday December 12, 2013 @07:14AM (#6894037)
In the UK it's both [1]. There's big yellow metal boxes [2] and if there isn't one in the area they deliver to the "7-11" who is probably providing Collect+ [3] type service.

[1]: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/help/customer/display.html/?nodeI...

[2]: http://www.amazon.co.uk/b?ie=UTF8&node=2594544031

[3]: http://www.collectplus.co.uk/

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Re:Canada Post to phase out urban home mail delivery by krrrh on Thursday December 12, 2013 @07:27AM (#6894076)
7-11 has been acting as a logistics and pick up service for ecommerce deliveries in Japan since the 1990s iirc. But 7-11 is way more ubiquitous in Japan.
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