puntloos Posted December 2, 2019 Share Posted December 2, 2019 We get quite a few parcels, and with both partners working, we're often not home. Was thinking: are there any low-tech or high-tech solutions one could build? Our current idea is this: Essentially an open box, that can be locked after leaving a parcel (by the deliveryguy, or perhaps digitally), whilst internally, a solid door too, that cna be only unlocked from within the house. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ferdinand Posted December 3, 2019 Share Posted December 3, 2019 (edited) That would pierce the insulated envelope. Hard work to avoid a cold bridge. My impression is that something like that would make the room feel much colder, as in you will feel a chill in the hall. Suggest rather something in your accessible porch, or outside. One nice way to do it is to have a thing in your porch for resting bags or boxes on whilst you unlock the door, and for that to have a lock-as-it-closed door of some sort. F Edited December 3, 2019 by Ferdinand 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ToughButterCup Posted December 3, 2019 Share Posted December 3, 2019 A personal Amazon - type Locker , then? Some of us are old enough to remember Poste Restant : for a fee you could get your post delivered to an office Where a nice lady would give me a sweet each time I went to fetch it. Ah the good old days... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ferdinand Posted December 3, 2019 Share Posted December 3, 2019 19 minutes ago, AnonymousBosch said: A personal Amazon - type Locker , then? Some of us are old enough to remember Poste Restant : for a fee you could get your post delivered to an office Where a nice lady would give me a sweet each time I went to fetch it. Ah the good old days... Is this not back and offered by eg Hermes locations? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ToughButterCup Posted December 3, 2019 Share Posted December 3, 2019 Oh- shows how out of touch I am. This issue strikes me as analagous to the catflap debacle we had on e Build- What's more important pussy or post? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ferdinand Posted December 3, 2019 Share Posted December 3, 2019 (edited) 8 hours ago, AnonymousBosch said: Oh- shows how out of touch I am. This issue strikes me as analagous to the catflap debacle we had on e Build- What's more important pussy or post? Cat flap debacle? *Us*? Here I can get Amazon to deliver to my local Morrisons, but Morrisons do not offer click-and-collect yet for their own goods. ? Edited December 3, 2019 by Ferdinand Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeremy Harris Posted December 3, 2019 Share Posted December 3, 2019 We have a secure delivery box, one of these: https://www.brizebox.com/ I bolted it to the wall by our back door, with a sign on the external letter-only box by the front door pointing to it. Seems to work very well. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe90 Posted December 3, 2019 Share Posted December 3, 2019 Parcels and post are left in my porch, no lock, no letter box, but we are very remote. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
puntloos Posted December 4, 2019 Author Share Posted December 4, 2019 On 03/12/2019 at 06:05, Ferdinand said: That would pierce the insulated envelope. Hard work to avoid a cold bridge. My impression is that something like that would make the room feel much colder, as in you will feel a chill in the hall. Hmm, I guess I still don't quite understand the details of insulated enveloppes. I think I grasp the principle, you dont want a conductive piece of material between outside and inside, but presumably you can build the dropbox with the full wall thickness.. (although that might make it impractical.. On 03/12/2019 at 07:41, Jeremy Harris said: We have a secure delivery box, one of these: https://www.brizebox.com/ I bolted it to the wall by our back door, with a sign on the external letter-only box by the front door pointing to it. Seems to work very well. This is quite cool. Maybe I can somehow put this somewhere unobtrusive and indeed solve it.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bitpipe Posted December 4, 2019 Share Posted December 4, 2019 We put a large letter sized mailbox in wall. For anything bigger, Amazon & co slide it under gate or drop it over wall ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesM Posted December 5, 2019 Share Posted December 5, 2019 I was looking at something for parcel deliveries too while away from home and saw https://www.smartparcelbox.com/ but Jeremy Hariss's https://www.brizebox.com/ looks like a better bet and more secure Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pocster Posted December 5, 2019 Share Posted December 5, 2019 On 03/12/2019 at 07:58, joe90 said: Parcels and post are left in my porch, no lock, no letter box, but we are very remote. Freebies ! . My delivery mung chucks them in a bin , hedge , just leaves on path , doesn’t Attempt delivery ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
puntloos Posted December 5, 2019 Author Share Posted December 5, 2019 2 hours ago, JamesM said: I was looking at something for parcel deliveries too while away from home and saw https://www.smartparcelbox.com/ but Jeremy Hariss's https://www.brizebox.com/ looks like a better bet and more secure I really like the idea of brizebox, but the key for the box seems super simple. I wonder if any mildly capable criminal couldn't open it in 15 seconds flat.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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