London's Tube network is about to face some major changes that will not only affect its staff and passengers, but also -- perhaps -- Amazon shoppers. Plans are already afoot to shut down manned ticket offices across the Underground by 2015, in order to pay for 24-hour operation on major lines. Now, according to the Financial Times, Amazon is in talks with Tube bosses to find a way to turn all those abandoned little cubicles into pick-up points for packages instead. Amazon hasn't confirmed the FT's report, and it's worth pointing out that there's plenty of scope for things to go wrong with idea -- not least industrial action by Tube workers who want to keep ticket offices just as they are.
Filed under: Misc, Transportation, Amazon
Source: Financial Times (pay wall)
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