2024-11-21T18:34:59-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/87144729/amazon-reportedly-eyeing-up-london-underground-ticket-offices-as-delivery-drop-off-points Alexander Walter 2013-11-22T14:05:00-05:00 >2013-11-25T22:03:37-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/ab/ab7eb5a938fb94b203ddae764df245e8?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>[...] London&rsquo;s mayor, Boris Johnson, who yesterday announced that almost all ticket offices on the London Underground transport network would close by 2015 [...]. There are 268 ticket offices on the network in total, and around 260 are set to close [...] Ecommerce giant Amazon is reportedly in talks with Transport for London to use the closed ticket offices as &ldquo;drop off&rdquo; points for deliveries.</p></em><br /><br /><p> <em>It makes plenty of sense for Amazon to be eyeing up prime Tube real-estate &mdash; which could enable it to build out a whole conveniently-sited network of its delivery Lockers in the U.K. Capital &mdash; giving London&rsquo;s commuters a handy stop-off point to get their goods.</em></p>