Browse Forums General Discussion Re: new house design to accomodate parcel drop off 2Dec 10, 2017 8:49 pm Congratulations for considering the future. If only the same was done for house design. You tube shows some parcel drop off cabinets (Google using similar terms) but most are suitable for small boxes only. I like your idea in 3. Having a changeable code would allow the driver to access a weatherproof storage space that would lock when closed. The front side may also have to be 'raiseable' or 'lowerable' for ergonomics. The code used would be given to the retailer and the instructions written on the parcel. A nice custom unit would be money well spent and the drivers would also save time by not having to knock on the door first. 3in1 Supadiverta. Rainwater Harvesting Best Practice using syphonic drainage. Cleaner Neater Smarter Cheaper Supa Gutter Pumper. A low cost syphonic eaves gutter overflow solution. Re: new house design to accomodate parcel drop off 3Dec 30, 2017 9:04 pm SaveH2O Congratulations for considering the future. If only the same was done for house design. You tube shows some parcel drop off cabinets (Google using similar terms) but most are suitable for small boxes only. I like your idea in 3. Having a changeable code would allow the driver to access a weatherproof storage space that would lock when closed. The front side may also have to be 'raiseable' or 'lowerable' for ergonomics. The code used would be given to the retailer and the instructions written on the parcel. A nice custom unit would be money well spent and the drivers would also save time by not having to knock on the door first. Re: new house design to accomodate parcel drop off 4Dec 30, 2017 10:21 pm Joker Better to support your local business, or if this is not important to you, hope you don't loose employment when everyone does the same thing and purchase from anywhere but their own backyard. For your information, I own and operate an Australian online business that sells my own products that I research, design, develop and manufacture here in Australia. I also provide technical design support to other Australian companies. Increasingly numerous Australian retailers including grocery chains and even plant nurseries also operate online stores, it is the future! Do you really believe that people only receive parcels from overseas businesses? 3in1 Supadiverta. Rainwater Harvesting Best Practice using syphonic drainage. Cleaner Neater Smarter Cheaper Supa Gutter Pumper. A low cost syphonic eaves gutter overflow solution. Re: new house design to accomodate parcel drop off 5Dec 31, 2017 9:13 am We have a PO Box - perfect - my son even uses it at times. BUT - we often just say - leave it at the front door ... You could just have a large letter box - ie top for mail - bottom for packages ? Re: new house design to accomodate parcel drop off 6Dec 31, 2017 9:32 am Thank SM A PO Box can't take those bigger parcels - you have to still go pickup at post office right? My friend has the large inbuilt parcel letter box into the retaining fence wall: covers most items, but bulky items can't fit. Also, people can still open the parcel box and take out the package. I guess you can't have it all! Re: new house design to accomodate parcel drop off 7Dec 31, 2017 1:59 pm SaveH2O Joker Better to support your local business, or if this is not important to you, hope you don't loose employment when everyone does the same thing and purchase from anywhere but their own backyard. For your information, I own and operate an Australian online business that sells my own products that I research, design, develop and manufacture here in Australia. I also provide technical design support to other Australian companies. Increasingly numerous Australian retailers including grocery chains and even plant nurseries also operate online stores, it is the future! Do you really believe that people only receive parcels from overseas businesses? There is a Mark Twain quote applicable to Clowns who run off at the mouth without checking their facts first...“It's better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than open it and remove all doubt.” Re: new house design to accomodate parcel drop off 8Jan 06, 2018 3:31 pm Joker SaveH2O Joker Better to support your local business, or if this is not important to you, hope you don't loose employment when everyone does the same thing and purchase from anywhere but their own backyard. For your information, I own and operate an Australian online business that sells my own products that I research, design, develop and manufacture here in Australia. I also provide technical design support to other Australian companies. Increasingly numerous Australian retailers including grocery chains and even plant nurseries also operate online stores, it is the future! Do you really believe that people only receive parcels from overseas businesses? There is a Mark Twain quote applicable to Clowns who run off at the mouth without checking their facts first...“It's better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than open it and remove all doubt.” Nah am a 20 year owner of bricks N mortar retail, the point is no body living in Melbourne is going to help out a school in Colac, it's scratch my back and I will scratch yours, Internet will never pass bricks N mortor shopping, if people don't know most products from bricks N mortor stores, they won't purchase online, yes I have a Internet store and a bricks N mortor store, when a school comes in for donations, I only help my own customers, won't help someone who comes in to the store first time for a donation. You're behind the times a little I think , Gen Y/Z embrace this online stuff like you would not believe. Banking was once a bricks and mortar business, its fast disappearing. Banking sector to be disrupted by Blockchain and digital currencies. Shopping has changed - Ebay, Amazon, Kogan plus many many more have moved online. Myer going down the tubes because they did not embrace online shopping. Auspost going down the gurgler because no one sends snail mail much now - restructured their financial model as money is all in the parcels side of thing, especially with the explosion of online retailing Online is where it is at , more and more, especially for folk who live rural like me.I can get pretty well anything I want online instead of doing an 80 km round trip. Of course there'all always be a need for certain types of shops - no one is going to have bags of pool salt couriered. Back on topic, I reckon we are looking at a budding Shark tank contestant if someone comes up with an idea to satisfy mboy's No 3 idea. Re: new house design to accomodate parcel drop off 9Jan 06, 2018 4:01 pm qebtel Joker SaveH2O [quote="Joker"]Better to support your local business, or if this is not important to you, hope you don't loose employment when everyone does the same thing and purchase from anywhere but their own backyard. For your information, I own and operate an Australian online business that sells my own products that I research, design, develop and manufacture here in Australia. I also provide technical design support to other Australian companies. Increasingly numerous Australian retailers including grocery chains and even plant nurseries also operate online stores, it is the future! Do you really believe that people only receive parcels from overseas businesses? There is a Mark Twain quote applicable to Clowns who run off at the mouth without checking their facts first...“It's better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than open it and remove all doubt.” Nah am a 20 year owner of bricks N mortar retail, the point is no body living in Melbourne is going to help out a school in Colac, it's scratch my back and I will scratch yours, Internet will never pass bricks N mortor shopping, if people don't know most products from bricks N mortor stores, they won't purchase online, yes I have a Internet store and a bricks N mortor store, when a school comes in for donations, I only help my own customers, won't help someone who comes in to the store first time for a donation. You're behind the times a little I think , Gen Y/Z embrace this online stuff like you would not believe. Banking was once a bricks and mortar business, its fast disappearing. Banking sector to be disrupted by Blockchain and digital currencies. Shopping has changed - Ebay, Amazon, Kogan plus many many more have moved online. Myer going down the tubes because they did not embrace online shopping. Auspost going down the gurgler because no one sends snail mail much now - restructured their financial model as money is all in the parcels side of thing, especially with the explosion of online retailing Online is where it is at , more and more, especially for folk who live rural like me.I can get pretty well anything I want online instead of doing an 80 km round trip. Of course there'all always be a need for certain types of shops - no one is going to have bags of pool salt couriered. Back on topic, I reckon we are looking at a budding Shark tank contestant if someone comes up with an idea to satisfy mboy's No 3 idea.[/quote]2017 Australian online sales 6.6%, Bricks N mortor 93.4%. Re: new house design to accomodate parcel drop off 10Jan 06, 2018 6:05 pm lol great formatting job..... "Growth in online spending significantly outperformed traditional retail spending, up 10.2% compared to 3.3%." Source . Page 5 Inside Australian Online Shopping 2017 report It has been increasing at the rate of 10% for the last few years, bricks n mortar retailers can only dream of this in the face of their slumping sales figures. End of story. Re: new house design to accomodate parcel drop off 11Jan 06, 2018 6:26 pm Or you could sign up for a parcel locker - free from Australia Post, and easily done on line. Notifications when the parcel is delivered, security code sent to phone so no-one else can get it. 24 hour access, and large parcels accommodated. Works well for me. Yes, you do have to go to get it, but the peace of mind is worth it, as I know anything I've purchased is safe, not getting wet and is trackable. Variegated Re: new house design to accomodate parcel drop off 12Jan 06, 2018 7:53 pm Qebtel, if you took online sales from bricks N mortor away, from places like jb hi first, Harvey Norman, 6.6% would be half again, most online is from bricks N mortor, I'm a 35 year retail owner and part of a retail group including new Zealand franchise, sports stores, full independents, shoe stores, clothing stores, fishing and tackle groups, etc, you may pull information out of every where, but buddy I've been living it, end of story. Re: new house design to accomodate parcel drop off 13Jan 07, 2018 9:06 am Joker Qebtel, if you took online sales from bricks N mortor away, from places like jb hi first, Harvey Norman, 6.6% would be half again, most online is from bricks N mortor, I'm a 35 year retail owner and part of a retail group including new Zealand franchise, sports stores, full independents, shoe stores, clothing stores, fishing and tackle groups, etc, you may pull information out of every where, but buddy I've been living it, end of story. Well I actually produced a reference, unlike the figures you gave out of thin air. In your post above you said you were a 20 year owner, now you are a 35 year owner. How about best of three?:lol: Nothing in your last past refutes what I said. My original point was the younger generations dont have the same level of tangency required to see and then buy goods , the way older generations do. Their whole world is seeing and believing everything they see on the net . You're obviously being threatened by online retailing , else why would you post your off topic remarks here? My commiserations to you. Hope you turn a dollar over this year. Re: new house design to accomodate parcel drop off 14Jan 07, 2018 10:03 am Joker SaveH2O Congratulations for considering the future. If only the same was done for house design. You tube shows some parcel drop off cabinets (Google using similar terms) but most are suitable for small boxes only. I like your idea in 3. Having a changeable code would allow the driver to access a weatherproof storage space that would lock when closed. The front side may also have to be 'raiseable' or 'lowerable' for ergonomics. The code used would be given to the retailer and the instructions written on the parcel. A nice custom unit would be money well spent and the drivers would also save time by not having to knock on the door first. 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