[icegreentea]

I actually worked with BufferBox this summer as part of my design class. They mentioned that while they and Amazon Locker were breaking new ground here in North America, this type of service is pretty old-hat in Europe. For example, DHL runs their PackStation service in Germany (and apparently in the rest of Europe too) [http://www.dhl.de/en/paket/privatkunden/packstation.html]. There are a bunch of other fairly large and developed competitors all over Europe as well.

[aristidb]

Wikipedia also has an English article about Packstation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packstation

(You might think it's only on the German wikipedia, that's why I think this is worthwhile to post.)