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The UK equivalent is CollectPlus http://www.collectplus.co.uk/faqs#local_shop_section . Instead of picking up goods from a locker in a public area, you pick up your parcel from a convenience store. The convenience store use their Paypoint terminal to identify you and your item and get the item from their stockroom back of house. The advantage for the convenience store over lockers is they don't waste front of house space on items which can be held back of house. Paypoint provides a terminal network across 24000 UK stores to take cash for utility bills, BBC TV licences, cellphone topups and so on. Collect+ is offered by 5000 of these stores, it piggybacks on the existing network which is obviously way more efficient than building a brand new network with extra hardware. I suspect this convenience store network approach rather than lockers would apply even better to countries which do e-commerce as "cash on delivery", for example Russia.


There is also Amazon Locker in some places in the UK which is Amazon's equivalent. http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/help/customer/display.html/ref=hp...


My local corner-shop just replaced a two-meter stretch of birthday/christmas/congratulations cards with some of these Amazon lockers.

First time I'd seen them, and apparently they get a lot of usage.




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