AR Homes of Vero Beach, Florida (of course it’s Florida) have been showing off their Home Delivery Centre (or center for you Americans).
Instead of leaving packages at their front door, or building a lock box next to their door they have a dedicated room.
At that point you might as well hire a receivables team.
I had a lot of questions. So after some research here’s what I found out.
What Is A Home Delivery Centre?
It’s a small room, this one is 9 square feet to be exact, at the front of the house with an exterior and interior door. It’s designed specifically for receiving packages from your favourites like Amazon, Instacart and Chewy.
What’s Inside A Home Delivery Centre?
The model they are marketing had a fridge, floating shelves, an additional shelving unit and an upper cabinet.
Is The Fridge For Snacks?
Apparently not. Naively, I saw the fridge and assumed mansion owners were leaving treats and cold drinks for the delivery drivers as a thank you for the extra work required of them to use this room. The fridge is actually there to store cold items.
How Does The Delivery Driver Know?
AR Homes of course swears the process is easy and intuitive but I’m not convinced. Unlike a package box, that is built into the wall next to the front door, this home delivery centre room is quite hidden. The door for the model is tucked in behind the garage and nowhere near the front door.
While researching the home delivery centre I discovered something called Amazon Key that works with smart systems to allow drivers to deliver packages inside your garage. The exterior door is meant to work similar to that.
Despite this technology I imagine you’d need to write quite an essay describing how to deliver because these delivery centres aren’t common.
Can Anyone Access Your Home?
The interior door is dead-bolted to prevent access to the main residence.
Is This Fair?
Personally, I don’t think so. I believe having items delivered is a privilege. Expecting someone who is already overworked to also put your items away for you is too much. Especially for no additional compensation.
Even after all my research I still genuinely do not understand what people order so regularly. But I’m not here to judge your purchases, just the home delivery centre AR Homes is trying to sell you.
Most important question…do you want a home delivery centre in your dream home?