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It's standard practice for cleaning/home-maid services and a number of food delivery services (e.g. Abel and Cole) already do this. It's just a matter of trust and reliability.

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I actually like this idea for cleaning services and such. Now you don't have to arrange giving them a key and trying to track down that key when you're done with their services. Tracking down that key is the worst. They have no incentive to give it back.

I'd like to see how Amazon manages the access. Can access be revoked manually? Can you generate your own access permissions to give to a friend? Is this access code a one-time code?

There are tons of keypad locks out there already that let you give people temporary codes and then delete them. I don't use that feature a lot but I can see it being very handy if you have a lot of service people who need access to your house.

There are mechanical solutions for revoking access (although it can only be done once in this particular case): https://youtu.be/cKDBoE-kYFk

Is it standard to enable them to remotely unlock your door?

You give them a personalized code.

Normally they just have a key...

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