Amazon Key takes deliveries to new level: Inside your home

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Amazon Key takes deliveries to new level: Inside your home
BY BEN FOX RUBIN
OCTOBER 25, 2017 4:00 AM PDT

Amazon wants to get even closer to its customers.

The world's largest e-commerce company on Wednesday revealed a new shipping service that lets customers receive packages inside their homes. The program, called Amazon Key, marks what may be biggest push by any company to spur in-home delivery. It launches next month in 37 US metropolitan areas.
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Still, consumers will need to get comfortable with the idea of strangers letting themselves into their homes while they're away.

Amazon isn't the first to try out in-home delivery. Walmart last month said it's testing straight-to-your-fridge grocery delivery with the help of smart-lock maker August Home and its in-home delivery program August Access. August Home already partners with a handful of service providers and the delivery company Deliv.

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[MissB]

1. Nope

No way.

[Luciferous]

2. No thanks

[meow2u3]

3. No thanks

I value my privacy too much to allow some corporation to invade it.

[MineralMan]

4. Heck, we had that back in 1962.

I used to deliver milk from a local dairy from 5-8 AM, six days a week, while in high school. A few of our customers had their milk delivered inside, in the refrigerator. They left the back door of their house unlocked, and I went in and put their order in the fridge. No extra charge.

I especially remember one of those houses. A cute girl from my high school lived there. She always showed up in the kitchen when I came in and flirted with me a little. It got to be a regular thing we both had fun with. She never missed a delivery. One time, I came in the door and she wasn't there. Bummer. But, then, just as I was about to leave, she flew into the kitchen, hair dripping wet, wearing nothing but a bath towel wrapped around herself.

Still, stupid dolt that I was, I never did ask her for a date.

[Nay]

7. Oh, dude. She really, really liked you. I would never have shown up in a bath

towel unless I really had a crush on the guy. No woman would.

[madaboutharry]

5. That seems completely crazy to me.

You would think the liability issues alone would have stopped this dumb idea with the first thought.

[Nay]

9. No kidding. They're going to hire min wage guys to deliver in-house? The first time

one of these guys rapes the family's teen-age daughter will be the end of this little experiment. If it ever even gets off the ground. It wouldn't with me. I don't trust random strangers in my house, ever, unless I am walking around with them for a specific reason (cable guy, cleaner, etc.).

[Nay]

6. Oh hell no. Never.

[ksoze]

8. For many city dwellers, they have no choice.

Having packages delivered in major cities is near impossible due to door side theft. Many resort to deliveries at heir office or at nearby relatives or friends, so this may be acceptable to many who have no choice for deliveries. I would gladly accept it - so I can stop being a delivery zone for my city living kids who cannot have a package last 5 minutes on their stoop.

[Nay]

12. If this sort of delivery system is forced on everyone, I suspect houses and apts. will be

built with a small entrance room that has two lockable doors -- the outer door will be the door the delivery person can unlock. He'll leave the items in this entrance room. When the homeowner comes home, they walk into the entryway, unlock the second door into the actual house, and haul their deliveries in. It's the only way.

[dalton99a]

10. Be decent when they open the door

Leave them a beer if you're not home

[blaze]

11. Are the Amazon drop boxes filling up too fast?

Or do most communities not have them yet?

I'm not sure when our Safeway got one... within the last year I think.