Tuesday, July 24, 2012

How To Use Amazon Locker

For those of you fortunate enough to live in one of 4 cities where Amazon has introduced this service (Seattle, London, NYC, and Washington DC), there is no an easy, secure way to get items at work. With locations sprinkled throughout these cities, Amazon has set up a locker service where your packages are delivered indoors, within a locked locker. This is great if you get something like a tablet or some other sensitive or expensive item. The banks are inside buildings and look something like this:



Once delivered (and I've found that, here in Seattle, some packages arrive early (I imagine this is because it's only a mile or so from their warehouse to these lockers!), you'll receive an e-mail that looks like this with your code:



You simply walk up, touch the screen, and enter your code. Your locker will pop open electronically and your package will be inside. It's as simple as that. Here's a little video of it in action: