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Would you allow an Amazon delivery person into your home when you're not there?

Posted on 10/11/17 at 11:07 am
Posted by TigerinATL
Member since Feb 2005
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Posted on 10/11/17 at 11:07 am
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Amazon has almost perfected speedy delivery to your home. Now the company is working to make sure your packages get inside the front door, or even into your car.

The company is in advanced talks to forge a partnership with Phrame, a maker of smart license plates that allow items to be delivered to a car's trunk, according to a person with knowledge of the potential deal. Phrame's product fits around a license plate and contains a secure box that holds the keys to the car. Users unlock the box with their smartphone, and can grant access to others — such as delivery drivers — remotely.

At the same time, Amazon is developing a smart doorbell device that would give delivery drivers one-time access to a person's home to drop off items, said two people familiar with the matter.

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Posted by TigersSEC2010
Warren, Michigan
Member since Jan 2010
37359 posts
Posted on 10/11/17 at 11:08 am to
Amazon will own the United States in 20 years.
Posted by PJinAtl
Atlanta
Member since Nov 2007
12747 posts
Posted on 10/11/17 at 11:13 am to
I heard on local radio this morning that Wal-Mart is piloting a program in California where not only do they deliver your groceries, they come in the house and put them in your fridge/freezer/pantry.

Call me crazy, but convenience can only go so far; no way someone I don't know is coming in my house when no one is home.
Posted by soccerfüt
Location: A Series of Tubes
Member since May 2013
65655 posts
Posted on 10/11/17 at 11:14 am to
How about moving to a neighborhood where folks don't steal your shite left on your front porch.

They exist, know how I know?

As for refrigerated/frozen items, I guess I could set up a box outside for those goods.

Make it look like a table amidst the porch furniture.

No one from Amazon is going inside my house when I'm not there.
Posted by Tuscaloosa
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Posted on 10/11/17 at 11:15 am to
Idk man... sounds cool and all, but also sounds like a massive liability for all parties involved.
Posted by LesMiles BFF
Lafayette
Member since May 2014
5101 posts
Posted on 10/11/17 at 11:16 am to
Walmart set the curve with this...and my answer is still “hell no”.
Posted by crimsonsaint
Member since Nov 2009
37248 posts
Posted on 10/11/17 at 11:17 am to
Hell no.
Posted by Boat Motor Bandit
Member since Jun 2016
1891 posts
Posted on 10/11/17 at 11:18 am to
if she is a 6.5 or better
Posted by PearlJam
NotBeardEaves
Member since Aug 2014
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Posted on 10/11/17 at 11:21 am to
Got a buddy that has a delivery door as the side entrance for his house. He can give access for delivery driver to a foyer and then there is a second locked door to the remainder of the house.
Posted by idlewatcher
County Jail
Member since Jan 2012
79071 posts
Posted on 10/11/17 at 11:26 am to
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Call me crazy, but convenience can only go so far; no way someone I don't know is coming in my house when no one is home.


Why take that approach when you can buy cameras (also from Walmart) to monitor them?
Posted by LSUSkip
Central, LA
Member since Jul 2012
17546 posts
Posted on 10/11/17 at 11:31 am to
Only people I want inside my house when no one is home is someone that I have given a key to. That will never change.
Posted by Pelican fan99
Lafayette, Louisiana
Member since Jun 2013
34722 posts
Posted on 10/11/17 at 11:32 am to
Id be ok with the car one but no way anyone like that is coming inside
Posted by MorbidTheClown
Baton Rouge
Member since Jan 2015
65881 posts
Posted on 10/11/17 at 11:32 am to
no
Posted by Pecker
Rocky Top
Member since May 2015
16674 posts
Posted on 10/11/17 at 11:33 am to
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Phrame's product fits around a license plate and contains a secure box that holds the keys to the car. Users unlock the box with their smartphone, and can grant access to others — such as delivery drivers — remotely.


This sounds like old tech. My (and my girl's) car has remote access and start. If I left a key in the box (attached to the car) you'd be able to access the car without opening the box. And I'm not driving a hooptie so I don't want some box around the licence plate of my car anyway.
This post was edited on 10/11/17 at 11:34 am
Posted by nobigdeal69
baton rouge
Member since Nov 2009
2174 posts
Posted on 10/11/17 at 11:34 am to
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Got a buddy that has a delivery door as the side entrance for his house. He can give access for delivery driver to a foyer and then there is a second locked door to the remainder of the house.


That's pretty baller. May have to remember that when I build a house.
Posted by SeeeeK
some where
Member since Sep 2012
28052 posts
Posted on 10/11/17 at 11:50 am to
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Idk man... sounds cool and all, but also sounds like a massive liability for all parties involved.


a he said, she said headache for all parties involved.

You would have to put cameras in ur house, to protect urself.
Posted by LSUBoo
Knoxville, TN
Member since Mar 2006
101919 posts
Posted on 10/11/17 at 11:57 am to
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Would you allow an Amazon delivery person into your home when you're not there?

Posted by TigerinATL
Member since Feb 2005
61483 posts
Posted on 10/11/17 at 12:01 pm to
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a he said, she said headache for all parties involved.

You would have to put cameras in ur house, to protect urself.


Walmart employees definitely. Amazon employees might have motivation to not steal because they could be more than delivery drivers. Amazon posted job listings last year for "home assistants" that would put away groceries, tidy around the house and look for things you might be missing that you should buy from Amazon.

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It suggests that if a Prime customer orders paper towels or other household products from, oh say, Amazon, then the assistant would come by when they’re delivered and put them away.

Additionally, the ad notes that assistants would “advise customers on regular cleaning service visits and grocery replenishment offerings,” which suggests that the employees could also sell customers on products they might need

The Seattle Times reports that the service — which would come in the form of a team including a professional cleaner and a helper — aims to provide “timesaving assistance to Amazon Prime members,” so they can run an “errand-free” home.

“If you love making a house feel like a home then this is the role for you,” the ad states, noting that assistants would “become awesome at” washing and folding laundry, restocking essentials and groceries.

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Posted by TheCaterpillar
Member since Jan 2004
76774 posts
Posted on 10/11/17 at 12:03 pm to
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How about moving to a neighborhood where folks don't steal your shite left on your front porch.



Even the best neighborhoods (without gates obvi) have people that troll from seedier parts of town looking for packages.

Rich people buy nicer shite online
Posted by soccerfüt
Location: A Series of Tubes
Member since May 2013
65655 posts
Posted on 10/11/17 at 12:17 pm to
I'm at five years of no one messing with any of my or (to my knowledge) my neighbor's stuff.

COULD it happen? Sure.

Not likely though if you knew where I live.
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