"The Medway Handyman" wrote in message
om...
eastender wrote:
Has anyone put a largish postbox near the front door to take parcels
(eg a packet of books that won't go thru letterbox), and if so what
models are working out well? Getting fed up with trips to the post
office, which is well over a mile away and hard to park by.

Did a local drop off point system ever get going?


DHL have a partial solution to the problem. They have parcels delivered
to a local self employed guy who delivers them evenings & weekends - the
problem is you have to get the supplier to use their service.

That reminds me of the DHL drop off and collection points in germany,
usually at train stations, but also found at tram stops and other easily
findable and reachable places, a set of different sized lockers, in the
middle is a computer terminal, you insert your dhl card or enter the parcel
number, it tells you which locker your parcel is in and opens it for you,

same in reverse if your sending a parcel, after you've paid it tells you
which locker to put it in and pops it open.

i tried to sign up for one of the cards to use the system when i was touring
germany last year, but couldent without a german postal addy, the system
would have been ideal for me to get things sent out to me, easier than the
poste resante service, which is notroiousely bad in germany for some reason,
switzerland it the usual model of efficiancy, 2 days from sending in england
the package was waiting for me, and i was let know via a text message from
the sorting office, with a number to ring if i didnt know what it was.