Amazon does a great job of making shopping easy for their customers. And they also offer lots
of different delivery options. One you may not know about or may not have used is the Amazon Hub
Locker. A Hub Locker is a kiosk with lockable compartments that you can have your packages
delivered to instead of to your home, workplace, or wherever you normally have them sent. So
let's look more at what they are and how you can select them to have your packages delivered to.
I have a TurboTax software program, and that's all i'm going to buy today. So i'm just going to
click on "Proceed To Checkout". Once you're in checkout, it shows a default shipping address.
But if you look just under that default shipping address you'll see where it says
"or pick up from an Amazon Locker. And for me it says, "one location near this address". And there
are hundreds of these amazon lockers across the country. There may not be one near you, and you
may not see this option, so i'm going to click on where it says, "one locations near this address."
And when I do that, it shows me there's an Amazon Hub Locker, the locker is named Intellect, at
Lambo's in Mattoon, Illinois. Lambo's is actually a convenience store/gas station type setup, and
you'll be able to find these hub lockers at gas stations, Whole Foods stores, Sav-Mor pharmacies,
likely anywhere that's convenient to a lot of people. If you want to search for other
Hub Lockers besides the one they recommended, you can search by address, zip code, landmark,
or store name, and see if there is one available and how far away it would be.
At the top here, you'll see where it says, "use lower lockers". If you click on that little down
arrow, it'll let you select that, and that way, they'll only put your package in a lower locker
in case you have trouble reaching the higher ones, such as if you were to be in a wheelchair.
So that's really convenient too. Once you click on, "ship to this address", the shipping address
is now, "Amazon Hub Locker, Intellect, 100 Miller Road, at Lambo's, Mattoon, Illinois.
If you don't need to change the payment method, just go ahead and click on, "place your order".
After your package is delivered to the Hub Locker, you'll also get an email confirming this,
telling you that it's available for pick up for three days from the date of delivery.
In my Orders Section on Amazon, it tells me that it was delivered yesterday, which was January 26th
on a Tuesday. I have until Friday the 29th to pick it up. If I don't pick it up it'll be returned on
Saturday the 30th, and my account will be refunded for the cost of that order. The email you'll get
from Amazon confirming that your package was delivered to the Hub Locker contains a barcode
and also a six-digit pickup code. You can use either the barcode or the pickup code
to retrieve your package. You can print the email and just take that with you, or you can just pull
the email up on your phone and let it scan it from there. So we're in Mattoon, and we're on
our way to the Amazon Hub Locker. And there's my wife Donna. She's going along for the ride.
She's going to get the packages. And we actually have two of them. Why do
you think people would want to use a Hub Locker instead of having it delivered to their house?
Well, because the biggest reason would be is there's always Porch Pirates, like people who
go and steal people's packages off their porch. And we've had that happen before. I know...it
was irritating. The weather, like this. Like if you had snow or ice on it would be bad maybe.
So here's Lambo's where the Hub Locker is. So we're going to park here.
Here's the Hub Locker. It says Amazon Hub on the side. The name of this Hub Locker is Intellect.
And it says, "order at Amazon, pick up here". And it's a self-service kiosk...there's no one here
that helps you out with it. And you can see there's several different sizes of lockers:
that's one, and down here, and then down lower there's some. These are probably the biggest
ones. And there's the terminal. And it gives you instructions on what to do on the terminal.
There's a keypad, and there's the barcode scanner.
You can use the scanner for your barcode or input your pickup code right here. And it says, "scan
barcode or touch to start". I've got the barcode on my phone, so Donna's going to scan that.
Oh, there it did. You have two packages available for pickup. Here we go.
It opened right up. So that's one package. That's a small one. That's the TurboTax. It says,
"you have one package available for pickup", and, "open locker one'. We just opened locker two.
She pushed, "open package number one", and this door popped open. And that's a bigger locker. And
that's probably maybe two feet tall by a little over a foot. Like really deep though. I'd say
two-foot. Yeah, that's a big size locker. That goes way back. Yeah, so that's pretty cool.
And then it just said, "please shut the door'". So how do you think that went Donna? Good. I give it
a two thumbs up. Yeah, that was really easy. Worked real well. Didn't take very long. No,
and you can also return your Amazon packages at a Hub Locker. You just start a return online, choose
Hub Locker at the place you want to return it to, and they'll send you an email and a code. And you
can put in your code and just put your package in one of the lockers and return it that way.
Thanks for watching, have a great day. Make sure if you haven't, subscribe. And make sure you
comment if you've already used this locker system, and what you thought of it, if you had any pros
or if you had any cons. We'd like to hear that too, right? Yes, absolutely, yeah. Take care, bye!