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This is a good thing. All those "order today, in the mail tomorrow" offers are bad. Drivers are payed poorly and their workload is ever increasing. Therefor they have no drive like maniacs, speed through school zones, park in thr middle of the street with their alarm lights on, literally throw your package out of a moving van, etc. Also the environment doesn't need more vans driving everywhere, three times per week. Something like a central "packages office" in every town would be a very decent solution woth few negative effects and mayor positive effects.
That solution would lead to replacing the trucks that are full of packages making relatively few trips, with everyone getting into their own vehicles to collect packages from the “packages office.”
This would lead to increased congestion, more resources being used, increased wear on the roads, more traffic accidents, etc. The paid drivers can be monitored to be complying with the laws while individuals drive like the assholes they tend to be anyway.
This is a horrible solution IMHO that would lead to way more problems than it solves.
You are assumuing everyone has vehicles, which is definetly not true.
Assuming they did not walk for 5-10 minutes.
You're assuming that everyone would have a "packages office" within 5-10 minutes walking distance. While I'm sure that could be or already is the case for many people, there are lots of parts of the world where that simply would not work. Even in the US, the rural areas are spread out so much that everyone in those areas would likely need to drive, especially if they had larger packages. Large packages are also their own issue. Nobody wants to carry a huge box for a mile or more. You also have plenty of people who don't have the time or physical ability to do that. As much as I'm not a fan of Amazon, they really do seem to be operating (mostly) as efficiently as they can.
You don't have to carry when you have grandma option: