This is common enough that there's a blog devoted to it: <a href="http://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/" rel="nofollow">http://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/</a>
I am very disappointed to see this. I have been using BufferBox since the beginning, and it provided immense convenience for both myself, and all of my friends who used the service as well. I was worried that something like this would have happened when they were acquired by Google, and now it has :(
Huh, I only hear of them as they're shutting down; I've wanted something like this in the past. Interestingly the German and Danish postal services have been offering such a service for a while, partly out of a desire to reduce their delivery costs (it reduces the number of packages that have to be lugged out to individual doors).<p>Germany: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packstation" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packstation</a><p>Denmark: <a href="http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fda.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FPakkeboksen" rel="nofollow">http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&pre...</a>