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Stop making excuses. I wonder how such a terrible comment made its way to the top.

> Oh wait, then you forgot your phone and had to go all the way back up to get it to get the unlock codes off of your email. Then you had to be certain that your email would not send the code email into spam, so that sucked.

Those are just one time things. You will forget first or second time but third time your brain will ring a bell "get your phone". Adding that email into trusted contacts is also a one time thing.

My building also has this setup but from different company. First three days are free. There is a website to manager locker settings. You can specify your away days then your packages will be dropped at leasing office.

This idea was also pitched at SharkTank and got funding.

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> Stop making excuses. I wonder how such a terrible comment made its way to the top.

Yeah, what a weird argument. Oh no, I have to grab my phone and can't just saunter downstairs in my unmentionables and nothing else.

So, yeah, I was just complaining about some of the issues that this thing has as compared to just dropping packages off at the door like a lot of other companies did already and continued to do after these lockers were installed. It's more steps (literally) than before and doesn't make a lot of sense. Like, to me, it felt like yet another unnecessary middle-man just waiting for you to screw up so they could take your money.

I moved out of my previous apartment partially because they switched to something like this... in our case they actually put the locker outside the building/locks - far more annoying than when the building let services leave the package in front of our apartment doors. I'm pretty sure these cost money too.

One of these systems tipped you over into moving out of an apartment?

I didn't say that, I said it contributed.

Delivery lockers are a minor inconvenience, but it certainly was not a positive change... paper cuts add up.

Ah, I missed the "partially".

I guess my brain works differently than your's does; I'd forget my head if it wasn't attached.

I have no idea what a trusted contact is in email.

Also, our rentors never told us about this nonsense, they just appeared. So, trying to think up, de-novo, that these would have some website attached to them was too far-fetched for me, let alone many of my former neighbors.

You know SharkTank is highly staged and this is an Amazon thingy now, right?: https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilycanal/2016/10/21/about-72-...

Really don't appreciate trash like 'how such a terrible comment made its way to the top'. I actually think this comment reads like a paid account. This kind of attitude is more fitting for 4chan or reddit on a bad day. the 'terrible comment made its way to the top' because people identified with it. Obviously.

Gracias

Seriously. Trivial tiny things.

True, I get that. But other companies were already, and continued to, just drop packages off at the door. Like I said in another reply, it felt like another unnecessary middleman waiting for me to screw up and then gank me. They succeeded, and now I really dislike these things, especially when (for me at least) the 'normal' method was better.

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