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I was watching a truck trying to navigate a tight street in town the other day. It was having some difficulty and had to mount the kerb.
The Scammells used to be common when I was young and they were very manoeuvrable.
Maybe bit of old tech for city deliveries would be the answer? No reason they couldn't be electric...
Never seen those before! The Reliant Robin of lorries. With no lights?
Rong... dis is da future..
Surely the best solution for the majority of parcels & majority of people, would be for them to be delivered overnight to a central hub in each community (some kind of office for post, if you will) and then have everyone cycle there to pick it up? Way less traffic, fatties get fit. Win-win!
Surely the best solution for the majority of parcels & majority of people, would be for them to be delivered overnight to a central hub in each community (some kind of office for post, if you will) and then have everyone cycle there to pick it up? Way less traffic, fatties get fit. Win-win!
That's never going to get the support of the majority. People are far too lazy.
Sounds like an excellent idea as long as this office for post you talk of fit open early, and stays open late 6 days a week doesn't close for lunch for an hour. Even better automate the collection process for non alkward / non oversized packages.
Nope.
Central drop points in towns then a mahoosive conveyer belt system to send them around .
What could possibly go wrong 😉
Amazon Locker ?
Surely the best solution for the majority of parcels & majority of people, would be for them to be delivered overnight to a central hub in each community (some kind of office for post, if you will) and then have everyone cycle there to pick it up?
I think Canada (maybe a different country) does this already and they are bigs sets of lockers to cover all of the houses nearby.
With no lights?
One headlamp - in the centre
no reason they can't do all these things, now it's not state owned/run. Either a massive bank of lockers, or some kind of ATM/jukebox system for spitting out the right parcel when a code is scanned.Sounds like an excellent idea as long as this office for post you talk of fit open early, and stays open late 6 days a week doesn’t close for lunch for an hour. Even better automate the collection process for non alkward / non oversized packages.
Make it law that your place of work HAS to accept personal deliveries. Then everyone could have stuff delivered to somewhere where they're in during working hours.
Wouldn't always work, but would for a lot of cases!
Not allowed here and it's bloody annoying. That's the only reason for my suggestion really 😀
The mode of transport is fairly irrelevant if you get to the delivery address, find there's no-one in, have to take the parcel back to the depot, attempt it again the next day and then give up and wait for the customer to collect it.
Although obviously it's far more environmetally friendly if the delivery mode can be e-cargo bike or some sort of very small van rather than a msssive great Sprinter.
The other point is that customers quite routinely order 2 or 3 of the same item (in different sizes) and then return the ones they don't want (free returns!) which just doubles the transport.
But yes, some form of "village post office" but with 24hr access, secured lockers, booked delivery slots and e-bike charging (for a fleet of e-cargo bikes) could be fairly easily implemented. My neighbours do a lot of online shopping (or at leats, tyhey take in a lot of deliveries for their daughter) and honestly, it's just this procession of vans pulling up all morning. It's insane that it's 5 or 6 separate vehicles, each pulling up in a tight cul-de-sac, offloading a small parcel and then bashing into trees, cars and pavements on the way out again. Surely some kind of centralised drop off point and then collate the deliveries and do one bulk drop off?
That Scammel video was ace, loved the way he glossed over the speed of the things on the open road, very smooth.
24hr access, secured lockers
DeutschePost/DHL lockers here (in Germany). My most convenient is 1 min walk from the office. Can send parcels too, not just collect.
Crazy when I stay in waiting for a DHL delivery on a Saturday. 3-4 different DHL vans all going round in circles in the same area, but different streets.
I'm not old enough to remember Scammels like that, but do remember a Ladybird book that had such antiquated delivery transport in, when I was about 3-4.
Always thought that the daries should have used their fleets of milk floats to deliver door to door parcels Their demise was just a bit to much before the internet shopping boom.
Don’t know why the post office don’t learn from Amazon. There is a post office 2 minutes from my office that almost always empty, but the massive bank of Amazon Lockers in the shopping centre right outside is always buzzing with people collecting parcels.
Seems like an odd thing for a national delivery network not to have adopted a similar strategy as it so clearly works perfectly for a massive number of people.
According to some expert I saw on the telly the other day, about 40% of our retail space is redundant / has no use. Converting that 'dead space' into a lock-up / fulfilment centre would be quite easy - accessible 24 hours a day.
Similarly, employers should be encourage to accept deliveries at workplaces (within reason) - I used to work at a secure site and it wasn't difficult as the mailroom was in a separate building and they'd simply call/email to say a package had arrived.
New buildings should be encourage to incorporate some sort of secure cupboard for residents.