[Amazon Email] Important: Changes to Amazon Key In-Garage Delivery

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Important changes to Amazon Key In-Garage Delivery

We’re contacting you regarding updates to Amazon Key In-Garage Delivery that are designed to provide you with more convenience, flexibility, and control over your Amazon packages.

As of October 4th, In-Garage Delivery costs $1.99 per order. However, that fee will be waived when you use Amazon Day with Key Delivery. Free Amazon Day with Key Delivery is currently preselected as your preferred delivery option at checkout.

When you use Amazon Day with Key Delivery, your in-garage deliveries are combined and delivered inside your garage on the same day every week, on the day of your choice. We call it “your Amazon Day.”

It gives you total control over what day your packages arrive, reduces the number of drivers opening your garage for deliveries, and helps reduce the number of boxes used per order.

If you want specific deliveries to arrive sooner than your next Amazon Day, you can select the one- to two-day In-Garage Delivery option at checkout anytime. It costs $1.99 per order.

You can also choose to receive deliveries on your doorstep whenever you like, either at checkout or in the Amazon app under Amazon Key settings.

In addition to these changes, other updates to the Amazon Key service now enable you to control your Amazon Key settings in the Amazon app. And the ability to watch deliveries in real time with a compatible camera and the option to invite trusted Prime members to receive Amazon deliveries inside your garage continue to be free with Amazon Key. You will also continue to enjoy the wide range of entertainment, shopping, and savings benefits that come with being a Prime member.

For more information on Amazon Key delivery options, and to find out how to update your delivery preferences, visit the FAQ page here

Thank you for being a loyal Amazon Key customer.

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I have a delivery box that EVERYONE seems to ignore (UPS found it, and uses it, it also has bottled water and snacks for drivers), so I’m not paying 1.99 for them to pop my garage door

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Why would I pay a fee when I can just file an INR and have the seller/Amazon cover the expense if the package is stolen?

This is nonsensical. They’re asking buyers to pay for a service that’s supposed to reduce theft problems that primarily benefits Amazon/sellers. There should be a discount if you opt into this type of service.

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Obviously an attempt to save big money by promoting a reason for buyers to sign up for Amazon Day deliveries.

Our 11 unit condo gets Amazon deliveries every day. Sometimes more than once a day. About 3 of the units get deliveries every day. If Amazon can keep those sales and deliver once a week, it can have a measurable effect on the bottom line,

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The probability of any building with 10+ units all signing up for Amazon Day instead of fastest is basically zero, so they’re going to have to go there every day regardless.

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An even bigger incentive would be to encourage people within a neighborhood or building to SHARE the day.

But that also would alert thieves that they could hit an entire block on the same day.

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From what I have seen the new Amazon delivery is doing poorly for getting 3p sales delivered on time.
They have to pass the cost on somewhere.

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Didn’t even know this existed. Signing up and getting the device… $22 to control my garage door from my phone? Sign me up… Just checked Wifi in my garage. 300MPS. Good enough :wink:

Only to be used when we aren’t here OR we ordered something of value OR it’s coming super early - Amazon starts delivering around here at 4AM…

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I mean it has been nice to know on a heavy rain day the box (too large for my outside delivery box) will be in the garage.

Heck, my UPS guy knows to hit the video doorbell and I can pop the door (My UPS guy is THE BEST)

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There’s a reason why Amazon is NOW trying to gin up new interest in the much-maligned Amazon Key Program (c: MSM reports since 2017 on various of its foibles over the years) with an unprecedented cost.

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I don’t want people waiting for the garage to open to get in my garage, which has lots of valuable stuff (not anything most people would want, but they are costly nonetheless. They could then close the garage door and take their sweet time trying to get into my house.

Sure, Amazon is supposed to close it when leaving, but there’s a delay, if they are closing via app, and I just don’t see them waiting to make sure the door actually closes with no thief going inside.

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Yea but the App that you have tells you when it’s open and if it’s left open. Kinda covers that scenario. You can close it from your phone.

Also, if you’re really worried, the Chamberlain controller that works with garage delivery has an optional camera.

Ordered mine about 40 mins ago. Will be installed tomorrow and we will have it just in case we have to do Garage delivery. My garage is 75 feet away from the street. Not concerned. Nobody is stealing my 1988 Mustang GT in my garage (with the keys in it), because it’s in front of my 1996 Impala SS. LOL

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This is a real concern for garages that are connected to the house. Didn’t think about that. Ours is detached.

I wouldn’t do it if we had an attached garage with an entrance to the house in it.

Good point!

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I have “smart home” systems, as I can only be at one residence at a time, so the others must be accessible to cleaning and lawn-care staff, but with access still monitored and logged. I gave a lot of thought to security, as law and fire response times can be slow in the Caribbean and the Canaries.

The problem with garage door openers is that there isn’t a lock. Its just the motor holding it closed, and a bicycle chain on a gear. If you want to deadbolt the garage door, you need a electronic deadbolt, so it can electronically unlock. So what to do?

I mounted a simple magnetic door sensor on the top most section of the garage door, and mounted a hinge above it, with the hinge pin upwards, and magnet for the door sensor attached to the bottom edge of the hinge nearest the sensor. When the door opens, the hinge swings open, and the magnet moves away from the sensor, so you get a “door open” signal from the sensor, and it can be dealt with the same as any “door opened/closed” event.

This protects against someone forcing the garage door, and overpowering the gear or the motor, as the sensor reports the physical position of the door, and if it is not perfectly vertical (completely closed), the sensor will report “open”.

Give Amazon access to my garage? No way! Each garage has a lovingly restored MG in it!

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By default, you are correct, they do now offer electronic deadbolts.

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I don’t understand why anyone would ever give access to their garage/house to a stranger. The way Amazon delivery drivers treat my packages now I wouldn’t want to know what they would do in my garage…

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I’ll let you know what happens. Opted for the optional camera to keep an eye when the door is open.

Somehow I doubt most Amazon drivers want to lose their jobs for stealing a rake.

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You would need an awful lot of force to snap the arm off the door that’s connected to the motor which essentially locks the door.

While my house was being built, someone tried to break in to steal materials or tools they thought might be in it. They took a crow bar or something to the bottom of the door to try and force it open. All they succeeded in doing was bending the steel door in 4 different places.

Let’s face it, if someone wants to get into something really bad, they will. The only solution is to put a bank vault door on every entry and brick up the windows…

Is what it is.

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I agree, most people don’t want to rob me when I walk outside but it doesn’t mean someone won’t try. :grimacing:

Another thought popped into my head what about those overnight deliveries. Are they gonna pop open your garage at 4am?

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Yup, if you choose that option.

Wonder how many Amazon drivers are going to get shot because of this?

If your garage is attached to your home, I think this is a very bad idea. Ours is not.

Again, the main reason I bought the unit (under $80 for everything, including the camera option) is because the keypad is finicky at times to get to work. Now I can do it from my phone. Leave the door open? App warns you that it’s open. I can close it from my bed…

Don’t tell anyone but we have a very well hidden key to the house in there. If we are away, and someone needs to get into the house, I could open the garage from Iceland if that’s where I was.

It’s just a cool techy thing which I like. Will we use it for Amazon? Maybe in bad weather, an item of high value ordered and we won’t be here at delivery time, or if we are away and need something to be there when we get home.

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