I pay for Amazon Prime yearly. I expect my packages to be delivered to my door, not left in a locker that I have to inconvenience myself to leave the house to fetch it. I’m 75. If I don’t have to go out, I don’t. Porch bandits steal people’s packages on a regular basis. I’ve never had that happen because I live in a small apartment building in a low crime rate city in central NY State. If I lived in a high crime area, I’d be concerned that if thieves will hang out in people’s neighborhoods to scope out packages sitting on their porch, what will stop those same thieves from scoping out these lockers so they can steal from people after they’ve picked their stuff up...especially the most vulnerable folks. Having worked in uniform for NY State’s prison system for 25 years, I know that not all the criminals are behind bars. I’ve been retired for 20 years, but I never lost being security conscious. And in today’s world, they don’t even jail the repeat offenders. They just cut them loose within hours of being picked up so they can go right back out and commit more crimes.
Everything old is new again. In my youth, in the early 1960’s I recall being in the car as my mother would go to a Service Merchandise warehouse pickup lane to get something ordered from a catalog. In those days I think they mailed out a post card telling you to come and pick up your order.