Secure mailbox for storage and retrieval of mail order or e-commerce items has an automatic monitoring unit that detects any changes in weight in storage compartments that are not due to deposit or retrieval of items

摘要

Secure mailbox has a number of compartments (2), a management unit (11) designed to permit depositing and retrieval of an object, a weighing scales (14a, 14b) and a monitoring unit designed to cyclically check the weight in a compartment and to generate an alarm if the change in weight of a compartment is greater than a threshold value. The management unit is configured to send a signal to the monitoring unit to suppress the generation of an alert signal if an item is being deposited or retrieved.