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As I understood the product, your "amazon locker" was your local 7-11. I imagine there's not a major difference in efficiency between having your "amazon locker" at 7-11 along with your conceptually-different "ebay locker", vs having your unified "postal services locker" at 7-11.


In the UK it's both [1]. There's big yellow metal boxes [2] and if there isn't one in the area they deliver to the "7-11" who is probably providing Collect+ [3] type service.

[1]: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/help/customer/display.html/?nodeI...

[2]: http://www.amazon.co.uk/b?ie=UTF8&node=2594544031

[3]: http://www.collectplus.co.uk/


7-11 has been acting as a logistics and pick up service for ecommerce deliveries in Japan since the 1990s iirc. But 7-11 is way more ubiquitous in Japan.




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