So in Germany, there is PackStations.  This allows the postal service or DHL (others soon) to put the package in the station, and tag it for you.  The station SMS’s (cell phone text message) that you have a new package.  Then you come down at your convenience to get it.  So if you have to work late or run errands, no biggie.  Pick it up on your way home.  Several large companies are having them put on their campuses not for business packages but for the personal packages the employees receive at work (which lots of companies put policies against it in place but it doesnt stop it, just might slow it down a little).

Now we just need them in the USA.  If they would put one of these stations at each “club house/community center” in each subdivision/apartment complex.  And other centralized areas.  This could be a big hit for US package companies.  It would make me feel better about getting packages.  If FedEx/UPS/USPS/DHL drops off a package at 8am at my house, and I dont get home until 8pm that night, that is 12 hours that someone could steal the package.

There was a nice article on how to pick locks.  It is the very basic intro to lock picking.  Here are some more: lockpicking guide, the art of lockpicking, TOOOL, & TOOOL. Those second set of links were some I had bookmarked in FireFox.