ASYNCHRONOUS ITEM TRANSFER FACILITY, SYSTEM AND METHOD

摘要

An asynchronous item transfer facility (2) has a storage structure containing a plurality of non-pre-assigned storage locations for items selected via a communications network for delivery from a sender to an addressee, and includes a first sub-system for receiving items from a sender and for routing the items to available storage locations in the storage structure; a second sub-system associated with the first sub-system, for informing an addressee of the presence of an item in the storage structure; a user interface for facilitating selection by a user of one or more modes of operation, including a pick up request by an addressee; a third sub-system for identification of an addressee; and a fourth sub-system, associated with the third sub-system, facilitating the retrieval by the identified addressee of an item addressed thereto, from the storage structure.