A blue sticker with the Amazon logo is displayed on a buzzer system in Goldberg’s apartment building in Chicago. Amazon is making a push to install a device on buzzer systems in apartment buildings throughout the country that allows its delivery drivers to whip out a phone, tap a button and unlock a building's front doors whenever they need to leave packages in the lobby instead of the street. — AP
NEW YORK: Amazon is tired of ringing doorbells.
The online shopping giant is pushing landlords around the US – sometimes with financial incentives – to give its drivers the ability to unlock apartment-building doors themselves with a mobile device.
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A blue sticker with the Amazon logo is displayed on a buzzer system in Goldberg’s apartment building in Chicago. Amazon is making a push to install a device on buzzer systems in apartment buildings throughout the country that allows its delivery drivers to whip out a phone, tap a button and unlock a building's front doors whenever they need to leave packages in the lobby instead of the street. — AP
Goldberg points out the blue sticker with the Amazon logo on the buzzer system in his apartment building in Chicago. The online shopping giant is making a push to install a device on buzzer systems in apartment buildings throughout the country that allows its delivery drivers to whip out a phone, tap a button and unlock a building's front doors whenever they need to leave packages in the lobby instead of the street. — AP
An Amazon package sits by the mailbox at Goldberg's apartment in Chicago. — AP
An Amazon device that gives delivery personnel access to a building's front doors to deliver packages, is shown in Chicago. — AP
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