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According to a report by the Asahi Shimbun, delivery trucks in the tower-condo district of Toyosu, Koto Ward, Tokyo, are being forced to park illegally on the street, and Yosuke Ide (33), representative of YUM JAM LLC, which handles deliveries for a major online retailer, describes the dire situation as making “it impossible to work.” A single delivery run to a tower condo can involve roughly 100 packages, and the chronic parking shortage has become a persistent problem. On 5ch’s News Express+ board, suggestions for streamlining deliveries — like “just stop at the entrance” or “switch to leave-at-the-door delivery” — came one after another, while harsher voices toward residents also emerged, arguing that “if you chose to live somewhere so inconvenient, the burden on delivery drivers is just something you have to accept.” Opinions were split over how much responsibility should fall on the condo management versus the residents themselves.
Late July, in the Toyosu area of Koto Ward, Tokyo. Along the roadside lined with tower condos, light cargo vans and delivery trucks were parked bumper to bumper.
“There’s just so little space to park a car in the city center — it makes it impossible to work.”
So laments Yosuke Ide (33), representative member of YUM JAM LLC, which is contracted by a major online retailer to handle deliveries from a logistics warehouse to individual homes around the Toyosu area.
Source: asahi.com / Read the original article here
What people said
Exactly.
It's totally fine to ignore tower condos that make life hard for delivery drivers
I think it's fine if the condo just hands deliveries off wherever a car can actually park.
From there, the building should provide its own staff, or use another method like convenience-store pickup
Just write the ticket, no excuses
(There's a) parking permit for cargo pickup and delivery
I saw a milk delivery truck get slapped with a yellow ticket the other day and honestly felt bad for the driver.
That wipes out their entire profit margin
There's nowhere to park just to hand it over
That would work fine
It's not realistic for the front desk to hold hundreds of packages.
Besides, tower-condo residents are paying good money for convenience, so they're not going to lower themselves to going down to the first floor and hauling heavy water bottles back up to their own unit
That should settle it
Rather than "leave it," isn't there a building manager?
If there's no manager, it's not really a tower condo
I feel like this would actually solve a lot of tower-condo problems.
The government should just pass a law saying tower-condo deliveries stop at the first-floor entrance and individual unit delivery is banned
Genius.
The package storage area is probably going to turn into total chaos, but not my problem
Can today's drones even carry a case of mineral water?
Wait, that's ALL they can carry?
>Medium-sized units (like the FlyCart 30): up to 30 kg
Sounds doable, no?
They should just make it free for delivery drivers specifically
>About 100 packages delivered per run
That's absolute hell
Wait, they actually charge delivery trucks for parking?
Being able to deliver a huge batch of packages all at once is actually easier.
Delivering 10 packages each to 10 separate tower condos would be way more hellish
That seems about right
Having someone like a concierge in the lobby to hand everything off to at once would be great.
I wish more buildings did that, not just tower condos
For places with no parking, that seems like the way to go
By that logic, think about the delivery driver's hassle of carrying it from the entrance to each individual unit first
You chose to live somewhere inconvenient, so deal with that much yourself
Going forward, that kind of hassle is probably going to become one of the factors people weigh when deciding whether to buy a tower condo.
And tower condos could turn it into a selling point, like "our concierge delivers straight to your door"
Less travel time between stops on the route is definitely a plus, yeah
I'm going to actively report delivery trucks parked illegally
They're struggling because there's nowhere to park the truck, you know
But in rural/depopulated areas you don't have parking trouble to begin with, and it's free too
Now that you mention it, that's true.
But I think there are aspects that aren't as easy as the "all in one place = convenient" image suggests:
– The parcel locker exists but is already full and unusable
– For big items you still end up going back and forth between the truck and a high floor
– Long waits for the entrance gate and elevator
I'd like to believe it's not literally ringing the video intercom at every single door, though
Efficiency improves from bundling 100 deliveries together, but the parking time bundles up too — what used to slide by as a casual 5-10 minute stop per house now turns into over an hour of parking, and you can't fudge that anymore. That's basically the story
https://www.mitsuifudosan.co.jp/corporate/news/2018/0416/
Oh, it already exists.
They should just make this mandatory at this point
Oh, so it's a system where the courier can talk through your unit's intercom from their own smartphone.
Nice, tower condo entrances get so congested
It'd be great if they also made loading/unloading parking mandatory on top of that.
And if these "next-gen tower condos" also have flood countermeasures built in, that'd be reassuring too
Background and key points of this discussion
The tower-condo delivery problem has been flagged before: back in 2018, Mitsui Fudosan and others announced an in-building delivery service letting couriers talk through the unit intercom via smartphone, but adoption has remained limited. In the 5ch discussion, two views coexist — delivery drivers arguing that a single tower condo where everything can be dropped off at once is, in principle, more efficient, versus the counterargument that the lack of parking actually makes it less efficient. This shows that a high unit count doesn’t automatically translate into greater efficiency. The debate over the “stop at the concierge” proposal also reflects a deeper clash of values: whether priority should go to minimizing the residents’ effort in retrieving packages, or the delivery driver’s effort in carrying packages to every unit. The article mentions that “authorities are also weighing countermeasures,” but concrete policy steps — such as mandating dedicated parking — have yet to materialize, and it’s easy to overlook that, for now, the response is still left up to individual buildings and delivery companies to work out on their own.
*This article is compiled as an excerpt and summary of the 5ch (News Express+) thread: [Tower Condos] Delivery workers lament parking shortage, “It’s impossible to work” — authorities also weighing countermeasures
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