PC Magazine - USA (2020-11)

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SAFE PACKAGE DELIVERY WITH AMAZON HUB
If you’re not jazzed about having strangers poking around your property while
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you can pick them up.


Amazon Hub Lockers are in more than 900 cities and towns across the US—
many inside convenience stores, gyms, and supermarkets—and you can ship
items to them at no extra cost. To do so, add a local Amazon Locker to your
address book and choose it as your shipping address at checkout. When your
package arrives, Amazon emails a six-digit code you’ll use to unlock the locker.


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Pending, and major parcel-delivery services—including UPS, FedEx, and the
USPS—have their own locker systems.


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has been delivered and can pick it up at your convenience.


A SMART DELIVERY BOX WITH BOXLOCK
A delivery box is a good way to hide packages from potential porch pirates, but
if it’s obvious where all the deliveries are going, there’s no extra protection.
Normally, you can’t use a padlock, because the delivery person would have no
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