One flying under the radar Amazon feature is the Locker Delivery option. Instead of having the package delivered to your home or office address, you send it to an Amazon Locker location. This includes select 711 stores, and other places, like select Safeway stores. The participating stores install Amazon’s locker boxes. So you don’t have to worry about being at home to get the order, or worry about unattended packages getting stolen. With Amazon’s own delivery drives being green and confused and stressed out, this is a good way to prevent delivery confusion 🙂

Once sent there, you have three business days to pick them up, so be sure you are going to be in-town and it’s somewhere you can walk if your car is at the shop. And things of that nature.

Anyway, to cut a long story short, when you receive an Amazon email that your order was delivered to a local 711 store, you will also see a short paragraph with an offer, you get a FREE 711 Big Gulp with your first order picked up there. You click through the Amazon link which takes you to a 711 website, and you receive the coupon via SMS (the only option even if you open the email with a web browser on a desktop computer).