There is a lot to love about this age of e-commerce we live in but it does have its downsides. Especially on the delivery front—at least for those of us with day jobs who live in buildings without doormen. Sure, some people are more than happy to have an online retailer ship to their offices those DVD sets of softcore-but-totally-entertaining stuff like Spartacus (Andy Whitfield, RIP), but not all work environments are created equal and not everybody likes to lug their packages back home after their daily grind. But the terrible, decidedly first world, problem of where to have our online purchases delivered is slowly being given solutions that don't involve getting a P.O. Box or staying home "sick" whenever you've got a naughty package coming.
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Finally, Getting Deliveries While At Work Just Got Easier (And More Expensive!)
Amazon Offers Same Day Delivery In NYC
Interesting: Amazon is offering same-day delivery for certain items—and for an additional fee (Amazon Prime members would pay $6; non-Prime members would pay $15)—in NYC and six other cities. The Bits blog reminds us of the olden days of Kozmo.com and Urbanfetch: "Of course, those earlier players did not have sustainable business models: Urbanfetch and Kozmo were saddled with huge delivery costs (paying a fleet of bike messengers) that they tried to offset with higher-margin products (DVD players and video-game consoles), but it didn’t work—most people just ordered a pint of Cherry Garcia and a pack of Marlboros."
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