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[-] Deflated0ne@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago
[-] LordCrom@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

So it's Peachtree towers in MegaCity 1.

Judge Dredd approves.

[-] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

China: Bulldozes Kowloon Walled City

Also China:

[-] ClamDrinker@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Mailroom aside, if a delivery guy is fine crossing a city with 20/30k people horizontally in traffic, I don't really see why this is such a bad thing when you break it down.

I count 35 floors, so you can cut it down to ~850 people on each floor after an elevator ride, and a building like this will probably have at least 4 elevator areas sectioning the building almost equally.

So you're down to about ~210 people after entering the right side of the building, that's like a big street / small neighborhood (and how far you have to walk should scale closely to that). And with this much people in one area you can really easily batch deliveries. And a delivery place will probably settle quite closely to such a hub of people anyways.

[-] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago

at least 4 elevator areas sectioning the building almost equally.

each elevator lobby also has its own address. It's less confusing than you'd imagine, and also any delivery drivers will have been there before.

[-] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Also: big buildings usually have cargo elevators. It would be insanity to "door-dash" every last package on the passenger cars, limited by what could be carried or lugged on a hand-truck. Instead, they would load up the whole car from the truck on a loading dock, then deliver one floor at a time, start/stopping the car where needed.

[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

They probably have a number of diverse food kitchens in there, and would most likely "buy local", anyway. That building being basically a slum, I doubt that there is much delivery from the outside.

[-] Buddahriffic@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago

Luckily each unit has a number that indicates the floor and each floor probably has a floormap near the elevator, so you won't have to go knocking on random doors until you find the person.

Same thing for making deliveries in cities of several million. If there's an effective addressing system, it's usually trivial to find the destination, or at least to get very close to it and switch to "ok wtf is going on here with the last bit of this address?" mode.

[-] jenny_ball@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago
[-] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago

They are not going anywhere. It's self-contained.

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[-] Lexam@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Delivery guy was there.

[-] Randelung@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

One single letter box.

[-] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Just do what my delivery drivers do. Leave it at the main entrance and mark it delivered.

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