Amazon to offer delivery of packages to 7-Eleven Lockers

AMAZON'S DELIVERY LOCKERS - Sept. 12, 2011 GeekWire has photos of one of the coming Amazon delivery locker systems to be housed by 7-Eleven.  These were taken or posted on September 5.  John Holdcroft (@johnholdsea) tweeted this particular story by GeekWire.

  It's been in the news that Amazon and 7-Eleven have been in talks on this, but it seemed a done-deal by this Sept. 5 report.  For those who have reason not to trust delivery to their doors when they're not at home, this will be an alternative.  At first, last week, I thought "Whaaat?" and pictured boxes left behind the counters :-)


  As you can see, in the larger version of the photo by Rebecca Lovell in a later story, there's a screen with a pin-code mechanism that looks a bit like a Verseteller.
  GeekWire's John Cook and his 2-year old explorer son had investigated the scene at 1522 East Madison Street's 7-Eleven in Seattle earlier when the lockers weren't ready..  They were told the lockers would be activated on Friday (the 9th). The larger photo of the now-active screen shows "Amazon Locker" at the top left.

They're not in actual (official) use yet, and they seem to be going through testing.  Amazon's not saying, so deliveries to Amazon customes haven't been set up in that case.

  I guess eventually these will be considered evidence of "physical presence" in the states that need tax collection by out-of-state companies .

Customers will get an email notification with a bar code used to get a pin number for keyboard entry.  The UK will get these also, and GeekWire says they'll "be located near the public toilets at the One New Change shopping center," going live this week.


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