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>Droning looks like a gimmick today, but why should it be in the future? It's loud. And dangerous.
I'll be the devil's advocate here: Cars are loud and dangerous - we figured it out as a society.
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The lockers are amazing. If you live in an apartment building, the leasing offices which sign for packages are often only open during business hours. If you live in a house, there's a good chance that someone grabs your package off your porch. So what do you do if you need a strip of LEDs for a project that you're putting together by this weekend and you don't have the right hours open in your schedule? (Or [insert r…
> If you live in an apartment building, the leasing offices which sign for packages Somewhat OT, but are these common in US (or wherever you are)? If so, out of interest, what other duties to they have? In Finland, I've never seen such offices even in the larger apartment buildings with hundreds of dwellings. Parcel lockers (both public and recently in apartment buildings) are a thing here as well, but they are mostl…
The author dramatically underestimates the opportunities of scale and future tech in her model. Amazon is already: - Installing lockers into apartment communities https://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=6442600011 that make deliveries dramatically more efficient. - Predictive logistics & ordering patterns are a core Amazon discipline and they are world class at it. - Droning looks like a gimmick today, but why should i…
>Droning looks like a gimmick today, but why should it be in the future? It's loud. And dangerous.
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Yes it's very common to rent from a company rather than individual landlords. Some of these companies are massive managing hundreds of thousands apartments. Many of the building are specifically built as rentals and all units are for rent hence there is often a leasing office somewhere in the building.
OK. Here such companies just have one central office per city/region, no building-specific ones. The largest companies here manage "only" tens of thousands of rental apartments, though.
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> If you live in an apartment building, the leasing offices which sign for packages Somewhat OT, but are these common in US (or wherever you are)? If so, out of interest, what other duties to they have? In Finland, I've never seen such offices even in the larger apartment buildings with hundreds of dwellings. Parcel lockers (both public and recently in apartment buildings) are a thing here as well, but they are mostl…
I think you would be hard-pressed to find an apartment complex without a leasing office. I have never seen that in the US. Mostly I think they are there to handle showing people around and finalizing leases. They also can handle maintenance disputes and forward complaints to the right people.
Heavily weight the first impressions of the leasing / office staff to determine whether you WANT to live in an apartment complex: As stated above, these will be the people you will deal with for anything from clogged drains - to being unable to pay rent on time.
In short: you want to make sure they are friendly, professional and courteous -- or it may ultimately detract from the perceived quality of living in that Apartment [0].
[0] - I lived in 6 apartment complexes from time I was a broke student to young professional with a family.
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>Droning looks like a gimmick today, but why should it be in the future? It's loud. And dangerous.
I'll be the devil's advocate here: Cars are loud and dangerous - we figured it out as a society.
Maybe we'll be smart enough next time to think through the costs of our revolutions.
If you assume a driver’s wage is at least the Seattle minimum wage of $15 per hour, add nominal fulfillment and delivery costs of $5 per order (the contractor’s fuel, car etc.) and nominal sales and marketing and general administration costs of $5 per order, Amazon needs to fulfill close to eight minimum order ($35) deliveries per hour to breakeven just on the variable costs Across 25 associates, the average number o…
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The lockers are amazing. If you live in an apartment building, the leasing offices which sign for packages are often only open during business hours. If you live in a house, there's a good chance that someone grabs your package off your porch. So what do you do if you need a strip of LEDs for a project that you're putting together by this weekend and you don't have the right hours open in your schedule? (Or [insert r…
> If you live in an apartment building, the leasing offices which sign for packages Somewhat OT, but are these common in US (or wherever you are)? If so, out of interest, what other duties to they have? In Finland, I've never seen such offices even in the larger apartment buildings with hundreds of dwellings. Parcel lockers (both public and recently in apartment buildings) are a thing here as well, but they are mostl…
The USPS does also have package lockers - larger boxes with keys that get left in your mailbox - but they aren't universal and companies like Fedex and UPS rarely have access to them. You can also have things held at the post office.
It's not that there are no other ways of solving the problem, it's just that the lockers are convenient and requires very little planning or forethought.
The author dramatically underestimates the opportunities of scale and future tech in her model. Amazon is already: - Installing lockers into apartment communities https://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=6442600011 that make deliveries dramatically more efficient. - Predictive logistics & ordering patterns are a core Amazon discipline and they are world class at it. - Droning looks like a gimmick today, but why should i…
>Droning looks like a gimmick today, but why should it be in the future? It's loud. And dangerous.
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OK. Here such companies just have one central office per city/region, no building-specific ones. The largest companies here manage "only" tens of thousands of rental apartments, though.
How are they handling visiting the grounds/future apartments for interested renters? That's one of the main duties of the leasing office people in the US. When looking to rent one visits many such places and asks the leasing office people various questions while doing so.