[kleff]

For packages wouldn't selling a mailbox with this smart lock system make much more sense than full access to the entire house?

[dkrich]

Nobody but the USPS is allowed to put anything in or remove anything from a mailbox.

If you're talking about a separate locker, not a bad idea but I'd assume that would be a lot more costly than replacing your lock and also would introduce all sorts of variability about size and where it would be placed.

[toabi]

DHL in Germany offers sth. like that: https://www.dhl.de/de/privatkunden/pakete-empfangen/pakete-z... - without the smarts.

[chrisper]

Amazon has lockerboxes too.

[toabi]

Which you can put in front of your house? In Germany "Amazon Locker" just lets you deliver to post stations where you then can fetch it.

[chrisper]

My bad. From the URL I thought it was about Packstation. That's what Amazon Lockers are.

But in the US there are apartments that have something like a "Packstation" for residents only.

[bayouborne]

Yes, or a strong-box that interlocks with a closed exterior door. Amazon's no longer content to just metaphorically want access to our homes and lives, now they actually want in..

[calgoo]

Like the dvd rental return boxes in movie rental stores.

[mholmes680]

Yes, I assumed Amazon Shed as a personal outside-the-home locker would have been next, but installing a key and camera does seem probably cheaper.