BufferBox (YC S12) Solves The Problem Of Missing Packages
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#2I reached out to these guys seeing how I could set one up in my city. Never heard from them.
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#3I'm not sure I get this one. Why would you not want something delivered to your house? Isn't that what the post office does if you aren't there to accept the package?
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#4I reached out to these guys seeing how I could set one up in my city. Never heard from them.
tweet @BufferBox, someone will definitely reply!
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#5A nice target for burglars :)
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#6I think this is kind of a portable PO box, or PO box you can franchise. It seems there are things moving to kiosk despensers like redbox, blockbuster, even those change counting machines in the supermarket!
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#7I'm not sure I get this one. Why would you not want something delivered to your house? Isn't that what the post office does if you aren't there to accept the package?
Sure the package could be left at the post office, but happens when you go to pick it up, only to find out the office is closed? BufferBox allows you to pick up your package at your connivence.
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#8I reached out to these guys seeing how I could set one up in my city. Never heard from them.
Looks like they're focused on Toronto:
"The team has plans to expand into 100 new locations, including convenience stores, grocery stores, and transit stations within Toronto"
The service sounds useful as a way to receive deliveries (and potentially a place to drop off a small package for pickup later by yourself in the same day).
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#9I reached out to these guys seeing how I could set one up in my city. Never heard from them.
Looks like they're focused on Toronto: "The team has plans to expand into 100 new locations, including convenience stores, grocery stores, and transit stations within Toronto" The service sounds useful as a way to receive deliveries (and potentially a place to drop off a small package for pickup later by yourself in the same day).
It seems to be an "open" variant (i.e., works for private couriers) of what Canada Post does.
If you're not home (or if the Canada Post courier is lazy - the one that covers my neighborhood just leaves tags instead of ringing the doorbell), they just leave a tag at your door or superbox and drop the parcel off at a local retail location for pickup.
Purolator is also doing something similar here too.
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#10I'm not sure I get this one. Why would you not want something delivered to your house? Isn't that what the post office does if you aren't there to accept the package?
In NYC at least (admittedly an outlier in the united states), most apartments don't have doormen and there's no place to leave packages and package pickup locations are almost uni formally in warehouse districts/boroughs hard to access via public transit