What was your experience? Positive and/or negative.
I have just discovered there is an Amazon Locker close to where I live. It's at the local Whole Foods - not a place I grocery shop. There might be occasions when using it might work for me.
Is it true that packages are delivered faster to the lockers than to home addresses?
Out of curiosity, I checked the locations in various parts of my city to see where they are localized.
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | February 3, 2018 4:32 PM |
Try it and find out. It's not true they are delivered faster. It MAY or MAY NOT be the case of a particular person, it depends who Amazon is using and where the locker is on that particular route. So try it and find out, then come back and tell us.
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | February 3, 2018 12:26 AM |
Sounds good. At least your stuff won't get stolen. I would use it, but there is no whole foods near me.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | February 3, 2018 12:27 AM |
No way. If I'm paying for Prime shipping they're going to ship it straight to me, damn it. I don't need another step.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | February 3, 2018 12:28 AM |
If you live in a crime-ridden community then I could the point of this but otherwise no. Then again upscale Whole Food generally is not in those communities. Putting the drop boxes at a low end store like Dollar General or Big Lots makes more sense to me.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | February 3, 2018 12:34 AM |
I used an Amazon Locker in a 7-Eleven to ship a package back to Amazon. It was much more convenient to go to 7-Eleven than to trudge to a US Post Office and wait in line.
Process of dropping it off at locker went very smoothly, although I initially felt intimidated by the process -- had to reserve a locker in advance to drop off the package, then once at the 7-Eleven, had to use the computerized kiosk to type in a code number and get to the proper locker, which turned out to be too small to hold package, so had to use the kiosk to get a bigger locker. And finally had to get receipt to prove I had dropped it off.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | February 3, 2018 1:01 AM |
I live in a small, non doorman building - there is a locker in the drugstore on the corner - it works great - otherwise I need to have things shipped to work
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | February 3, 2018 1:09 AM |
I have an open order and clicked over to the "Check Out" page. Normally, I have items shipped to home, but the option was there on the page to use one of the lockers. By specifying a zip code, a list of lockers in the area of that zip code appears along with a map.
Lots of Whole Foods locations, some 7-11, a local University and some other stores. I seem to remember I checked a few months back and there were a lot fewer lockers listed and none for Whole Foods. So, the placement of Amazon Lockers there presumably came as a result of Amazon's purchase of WF.
Here's a link from a British guy showing how the Lockers work.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 7 | February 3, 2018 1:12 AM |
My million dollar idea is to create bigass Amazon "mailboxes" to put in front of your home.
Midcentury modern. Faux Antebellum mansion- style. Tuscan mansion-esque.
Everybody in every McMansion neighborhood will want one.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | February 3, 2018 1:31 AM |
I’ve used them a lot, never had a problem. It’s just easier to pick up on the way home.
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | February 3, 2018 1:35 AM |
R8, Amazon is doing you one better: install a special Amazon lock and delivery drivers can drop off your stuff inside your house.
No, I'm not joking.
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | February 3, 2018 3:09 AM |
It's the safer choice if you're expecting something expensive. Years ago I had my IPAD delivered to one.
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | February 3, 2018 3:12 AM |
I've used a locker about 15 times and only had a problem once.
I needed an item in two days so I of course used 2-day shipping. Had it sent to the locker and was waiting for the confirmation to pick it up. It was out for delivery and then all of a sudden it was being sent back to UPS for delivery the next day. Same thing happened the next day and the following day. I kept calling to find out what the issue was and I was told that the lockers were all full so they couldn't deliver it. On the fourth day, they still apparently didn't have any lockers and so they sent the item back to Amazon.
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | February 3, 2018 3:46 AM |
I live in a development that has one set of cluster mailboxes for the entire complex. In addition to the regular mailboxes, there are large parcel lockers that can be used for delivery of items too large for the mailboxes. Unfortunately, they're only available to the Postal Service, so unless Amazon ships an item via USPS (which is getting rarer these days -- it seems like everything comes via Amazon Logistics), they can't use them.
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | February 3, 2018 4:32 PM |
