Overall, I hope this is a journey at which we can all laugh, and from which we can learn. Quite the opposite, I’d like to sincerely thank them for what they do, and if any of my local package handlers stumbles across this post, I want to make clear, there’s no offense intended. So, I don’t blame package handlers at all. I had actually hoped that the delivery box would be a welcome sight, as if to say, “Hey, here’s one less decision you have to make - just put it here.” To say that I had been naive would also be a vast understatement. To describe it as “trying” would be a vast understatement. I also did not expect to have to paint the box in order to get people to notice it.įinally, let me sum up by saying, I fully respect and appreciate how excessively crappy being employed as a delivery worker for the past 18 months has been. I didn’t fully expect anyone to drop packages in the box when it was back in a corner. It’s fair to say that the more I adjusted the box’s position and décor, the more it got used. The bottom line is, Yale still has a few bugs to work out, not the least of which is getting delivery personnel to notice and/or use the box. It’s sad, and a little damning, but it’s also hilarious. All of the photos shown above are legit packages with photos taken exactly where I found them. A few delivery people leaned down to put my package on the stoop and used the box as a handhold. I found packages by my front door, on the table next to my front door, next to the box, behind the box, and in one hilarious incident, on top of the box. In one case, a delivery person tried to put a package into the box, found it didn’t fit, so they placed the package behind the box. Amazon delivered the most packages at 11, followed by FedEx at 10. All told, two UPS packages, three FedEx packages, one DHL (the only DHL), one USPS, and one lonely Amazon package made it into the box. I’m not sure why he turned back, but sorry dude. I saw the whole thing thanks to my Vivint Video Doorbell Pro, and I felt bad about it. The first to make it into the box was from UPS, but that was actually a bit of a backfire because after the delivery person put the package in the box, he made it halfway back to his truck before turning around and trying to open the box again. Rather than putting a huge gray box front and center on my porch, I placed it behind a planter so it’d be hard to see from the street, but once you got to the front porch, it became more obvious. I wanted to place the box where it made sense from a décor standpoint. First, I initially placed the box in a not particularly visible spot on my front porch. This is where the story gets more interesting. Now, I had to make sure our delivery person could use it, so I placed it on my front porch. That got annoying until I learned that when the box is locked, the lid does not budge, so even opening the lid a fraction of an inch would tell me if it was locked or not. I then had to unlock the box, and then open it again so that the next time it was opened, it would lock. One thing that the app is decidedly lacking is a button to reset the box into “awaiting delivery state.” I often found myself opening the box to see if anything was in it, and having it lock on me. Yale wants to keep your possessions safe with new smart delivery box, lock
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