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The application of parcel locker worldwide

A parcel locker is an automated postal box that allows users for a self-service collection of parcels and oversize letters as well as the dispatch of parcels.

Taking Amazon packages as an example

A customer orders a parcel from Amazon and has it delivered to a Locker location. Amazon's preferred carriers deliver to the locker, and the customer receives a digital pick-up code via email or text messaging. Once the unique pick-up code is entered into the locker's touch screen, the assigned door opens for package retrieval. Amazon customers have three days to collect their packages once they receive their pick-up code.

Amazon customers can also return packages to select parcel lockers. Parcel Lockers can sometimes be full and therefore not available when a delivery is attempted. In that case customers will have to wait an unspecified amount of time until space is available.

Parcel locker in US and UK

7-Eleven has kiosks in 186 locations in the US as of 2015.

In the United Kingdom, Amazon has a partnership with Co-op Food and Morrisons. Lockers are located within some Co-op and Morrisons stores. Since 2012, libraries in West Sussex have also been operating Lockers. Large retail centres often have Amazon Lockers, for example there are two in One New Change in London, and there is one in Stratford Centre.The largest Amazon Locker in the world and the busiest in the UK is called Ivory. It has 115 lockers and is located near the Rootes building at the University of Warwick

Pharmaceutical lockers

Several manufacturers offer parcel lockers designed for pickup of drugs, either at pharmacies or in remote locations. One design as an integrated audio-visual connection for conferring with a pharmacist.Drug pickup lockers are deployed at some Costco pharmacies and have been piloted at CVS Health. A shortage of pharmacists in the 2020s increased pressure to adopt this solution. Though delivery of prescription drugs by mail is common, some jurisdictions (for example the U.S. state of Georgia have laws which do not allow the use of unattended lockers.

Germany

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Packstation is a service of parcel lockers run by DHL Parcel Germany, a business unit of Deutsche Post's Mail division, in Germany and elsewhere (e.g. in Italy). It provides automated booths for a self-service collection of parcels and oversize letters as well as self-service dispatch of parcels 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Packstation started as a pilot project in 2001 and was quickly expanded. In 2025 there were more than 15,500 Packstation machines in Germany[1] and 90 percent of the people living in Germany were within ten minutes of a DHL Packstation.[40] Only ordinary parcels and letters delivered by Deutsche Post can be delivered to Packstations. Moreover, Deutsche Post allows its subsidiary DHL Express Germany to insert a limited number of express parcels.

Austria

Austria's Österreichische Post introduced a virtually identical service called Post.24-Station in November 2006. The booths are manufactured by the same company that makes the packstations, KEBA. In Vienna, Stations have been erected in supermarkets, petrol stations, and post offices that can easily be reached by public transport.

Poland

Polish company InPost runs a network of almost 29,000 self-service parcel terminals in Poland called Paczkomaty, with them placing their first one in 2009. Terminals are located in shopping centres, car parks and gas stations. The terminals enable clients to send and receive parcels.As of 2025, there are almost 54,000 parcel terminals across the entire country, with the previously mentioned InPost controlling almost half of them, with DPD Polska being in second with around 9,000 and Orlen in third with around 6,000 parcel terminals, making Poland the country highest density of parcel terminals per capita

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