Something similar has been around in Germany for 10 years now. The boxes there are not owned by Amazon, but by the Deutsche Post AG.[0] This allows competitors to use them as well.
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#32Something similar has been around in Germany for 10 years now. The boxes there are not owned by Amazon, but by the Deutsche Post AG.[0] This allows competitors to use them as well. 0: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packstation
Itella in Finland have them also (SmartPost) for use by any online merchant. As a merchant, you can also use them to drop your parcels off.
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#33All over Denmark for a couple of years: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IlrPuze6Aps/THpLTSbhdCI/AAAAAAAACB...
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#34Something similar has been around in Germany for 10 years now. The boxes there are not owned by Amazon, but by the Deutsche Post AG.[0] This allows competitors to use them as well. 0: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packstation
Itella in Finland have them also (SmartPost) for use by any online merchant. As a merchant, you can also use them to drop your parcels off.
Only around Helsinki it seems. Although that's not much of a problem since Matkahuolto has the next best thing already (delivery to a store nearby).
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#36I love this idea. I travel full-time, and have no permanent residence. Amazon Prime has been a godsend...but, even that only works when I'm staying somewhere long enough to get something shipped in (I upgrade to overnight for $3.95 per item quite often), and in a place where I can have something delivered. Fedex and UPS do not yet accept GPS coordinates as a destination for delivery (my motorhome is often parked off…
I travel full-time, and have no permanent residence. do you not file a state tax return?
He is still a lawful resident of the state, whether or not he has a permanent address.
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#37Something similar has been around in Germany for 10 years now. The boxes there are not owned by Amazon, but by the Deutsche Post AG.[0] This allows competitors to use them as well. 0: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packstation
They english marketing page about the Packstation: http://www.dhl.de/en/paket/privatkunden/packstation.html
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#38Hopefully coming to the UK soon. This (well, ideally a generic multi-retailer version) has been to me an obvious business opportunity for years; if I had the slightest of relevant contacts I'd have been trying to set it up. Hopefully it will take off and we'll begin to see the real possibility of online retail.
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#39I love this idea. I travel full-time, and have no permanent residence. Amazon Prime has been a godsend...but, even that only works when I'm staying somewhere long enough to get something shipped in (I upgrade to overnight for $3.95 per item quite often), and in a place where I can have something delivered. Fedex and UPS do not yet accept GPS coordinates as a destination for delivery (my motorhome is often parked off…
>In short, I don't know how many normal people are going to use this service I think many of their customers will use it simply for the anonymizing aspect. It just because significantly easier to order things online without people finding out.
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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Well, apparently the only one in existence is in Seattle (about eight blocks away from me, as it works out). My guess is that the answer to "how soon" would be 'the second one of these boxes appears in a state where Amazon does not yet collect sales tax.' That said, I'm guessing that Amazon's lawyers would argue that this is effectively identical to a P.O. box, and therefore totally exempted. At least, that's what I'…
Or the boxes are owned by a company which is not Amazon. Make it a joint venture with UPS and use it for all kinds of deliveries and win.
These will be undoubtedly owned by 7-11. It's a virtual guarantee of getting more people to come into your store that may buy something since they're already there.