RE: UPS keeping your parcels safe

["Brian G. Reynolds" <brian.g.reynolds@xxxxxxx>]

As much as I hate BBC Watchdog they were getting all the delivery companies
to sign up for some sort of code of conduct where people like me that live
alone can get parcels delivered to work once they fail to get an answer
from my front door.

They were also pushing for Saturday deliveries, nice.

In the couriers and shops defence, they are normally bound by the Credit
Card companies rules, i.e. package must be delivered to card holders
address, whereas this is to protect you and me from fraud once again it is
the innocent that pays with hassle!

This is one reason why I like dealing with the likes of Li at Laser whom
has come to know and love(!) me and has no problem delivering to my place
of work and therefore saving me a 20 or so mile round trip to the couriers
depot.

I sympathise with all concerned, difficult.

B.

-----Original Message-----
From: Pankaj Dhokia [mailto:pankaj@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 20 January 2003 14:33
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] UPS keeping your parcels safe


> http://www.automatedhome.co.uk/article.php3?story_id=491
> 
> http://www.automatedhome.co.uk/article.php3?story_id=509
> 
> http://www.automatedhome.co.uk/article.php3?story_id=469
> 
> http://www.automatedhome.co.uk/article.php3?story_id=420

I made something similar to the boxes described in the links as a final
year 
project at uni. The idea was that when a courier wants to deposit a parcel,
they press a button on a control panel and that sends an email and SMS to a
number of registered users of that box. A web-cam starts recording data
locally 
and streaming via the web. The user is able to login to a control panel and
see 
the web-cam feed and unlock the box from a web interface or if they don't
have 
web access, unlock the box using SMS. Didn't get as far as implementing the
SMS 
but the infrastructure is their when I get round to updating it!

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