SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF DELIVERING PARCELS USING ATTENDED DELIVERY/PICKUP LOCATIONS

摘要

Systems and methods for facilitating delivery of parcels to, from, and between attended delivery/pickup locations. In various embodiments, the attended delivery/pickup locations may be associated with brick-and-mortar retail locations and used to facilitate inventory transfer between locations, shipment of goods purchased at the brick-and-mortar-retail locations to other attended delivery/pickup locations or other locations, and to receive delivery of parcels sent from any suitable location. In some embodiments, the attended delivery/pickup locations are configured to receive shipments of items ordered from online retail websites. In other embodiments, the attended delivery/pickups locations are associated with shopping centers and configured to facilitate shipment of items purchased at the associated shopping centers.

主权项

1. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing computer-readable instructions for:
(A) providing, to a first user, a selection of available attended delivery/pickup locations to which the first user may have one or more parcels delivered; (B) receiving a request from said first user to deliver said one or more parcels to a particular attended delivery/pickup location, said request comprising an intended recipient and said particular attended delivery/pickup location comprising an attended delivery/pickup location from said selection of available attended delivery/pickup locations and being associated with a first brick-and-mortar store; (C) at least partially in response to receiving said request, facilitating delivery of said one or more parcels to said particular attended delivery/pickup location; (D) receiving confirmation that said one or more parcels have been delivered to said particular attended delivery/pickup location; and (E) at least partially in response to said confirmation, notifying at least one person that said one or more parcels have been delivered to said second attended delivery/pickup location.