If your tenants and HOA residents are indicative of the rest of the country, they send and receive parcels and packages on a daily basis. Property owners looking to get a leg up on the competition may consider adding secure delivery lockers to their building to meet this demand. This way, no one has to leave the building to pick up a package off site, and there’s no chance of theft for packages left unattended on doorsteps when people are not at home.
Theft is a big concern among many property owners and tenants. In fact, 210 million packages were stolen in 2021 in the United States alone. Not only can recipients be assured of safe delivery of their packages, they can pick them up at their convenience.
Secure delivery lockers are just that: a series of lockers, usually placed within a common area such as mail room or lobby of a residential property, that can be unlocked by both the consumer and the carrier with an app, keypad entry or QR code. This eliminates the possibility of package theft or missed deliveries, and can easily be added as part of an interior renovation.
You can discourage theft on your property while also minimizing the complaints from tenants who are angry that their package was stolen or missing. This is a contactless pickup solution that benefits both property owners and residents alike.
Meeting the Demands of an Unprecedented Rise in Packages
Secure electronic parcel lockers are nothing new. They’re starting to pop up more and more in businesses, residential communities, enterprises, campuses and government agencies, put in place to meet the increasing demands for a contactless and more autonomous mail delivery experience.
You may be considering implementing this secure, safe, convenient solution for package and document delivery on your property. Wise idea. With the prevalence of online shopping skyrocketing in the last decade, and even more so during the pandemic, retailers rely on their deliveries to occur seamlessly in order to make sure customers are happy and remain loyal.
A quarter of e-commerce businesses say they fail to deliver at least one out of 10 packages on the first attempt, which costs retailers nearly $200,000 per year. This is what is fueling the addition of these high-tech lockers to make pickups of packages as well as returns of unwanted items easier.
You as the property manager benefit from the contactless, labor-saving benefits of such lockers, while your tenants benefit from the streamlined curbside pickup and easy retrieval system. It’s a win-win!
Benefits of Adding Secure Lockers to Your Property
There are many reasons why you should add secure lockers to your property, such as:
- They protect unattended deliveries: Offering a safer alternative to dropping packages unattended at the front door, the steel construction and built-in digital security features can lead to the best package theft solution. But in addition to minimizing theft, this solution can also curb the incidence of packages being misplaced, lost or delivered to the wrong person.
- They offer a quick and easy way of retrieval: Carriers simply placed the package in the locker, with an alert automatically sent to the recipient notifying them of the drop-off. They get access to a unique barcode that allows them to access the locker – and no one else.
- They shield packages from the weather: How many times have you gotten complaints from residents that their packages were left out in the rain and were ruined? Even though you can’t control Mother Nature, these complaints can take a toll. With a locker system, packages are shielded from the wind, rain, snow, heat and more.
- They offer privacy and anonymity: Your tenants don’t want their package sitting on their door steps all day, vulnerable to privacy breaches. Parcel lockers can do away with the stress that comes with trying to keep a gift secret or the need for a person to sign for a high-value delivery. Your tenants also value discretion and don’t want everyone to know which retailer their package came from. With a locker, they benefit from anonymous pickup, whether for personal items or prescription medications.
- They promote contactless delivery: Post-pandemic, people are still concerned about physical contact between one another. Secure lockers strike a fair balance between safety and convenience.
Contact Allstar Construction and Maintenance
If you are a property manager looking to integrate secure delivery lockers to your residential community, contact us at 952-234-9995 to learn about our innovative interior renovations.
