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And even if you don't live in some fancy apartment building with RFID locks you can just get a box that you chain to your front door and the delivery services will respect that and put your packages in there, use your seal for a signature, and then lock it after they're done https://direct.sanwa.co.jp/ItemPage/300-DLBOX001

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Haha, that's a cute little lock. I suppose that could work in resident-entry-only buildings, but America can be pretty bad-ass:

http://telzilla.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/video-bulletp...

It also works in a country where crime is basically negligible. It's amazing how many conveniences emerge from people behaving themselves.

That photograph describes everything that's wrong with the US from a foreigner's perspective.

And yet where I live I get packages left at my door for days, noone is touching them, there are no bullet proof vending machines and people generally are well behaved and courteous.

This just to remind you that the US is huge, consists of 50 states and in most cases the states are very different from each others.

I'm not even an american and I'm offended about the generalization.

The trick is that Japan has managed to have this security broadly across their whole society - from sleepy villages to inner cities to depopulating poverty-stricken towns that lost their industry.

Sure but the entire "society" of Japan is smaller than just California

And yet California certainly doesn't have its shit together...

I'm confused by this comment. Japan has 127 million people. California has 40 million.

Or in stores, the Windows customer experience: https://twitter.com/swiftonsecurity/status/55707120341262745...

Yeah you can get away with a lot less physical security in Japan.

Around where I live bikes are just locked with ring locks that go through the spokes of the back wheel (in other countries that would get your bike lifted into the back of a truck in days).

This also makes retail a lot nicer since you don't get those crazy un-openable blister packs you see in the west. Most packaging is just held together with a single piece of tape for easy opening. Amazon's "frustration-free packaging" is actually more difficult to open than most of the retail electronics packaging you have here.

What's the "seal" you speak of?

In Japan people use these little wooden stamps with their names engraved instead of a signature. Throw 印鑑 into image search and you can see examples.

Reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seal_(emblem)

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