JP2011230917A - Home delivery system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To allow a deliveryman to deliver an article or the like provided by a sender to a recipient by transmitting the mail address of the recipient from the sender.SOLUTION: When a sender terminal specifies a mail address of a recipient terminal, and sends information on a delivery order to a server through a communication network 11, the server having received the delivery order refers to management data in a memory, acquires main information on the address and name of the recipient corresponding to the mail address, and instructs the deliveryman 12 to deliver the packages requested from the senders 14A-14N to deliver to the recipients 13A-13N.

Description

  The present invention provides a delivery service in which the recipient receives the package from the sender only by giving his / her mail address to the delivery company, or delivers the package etc. to the recipient only by giving the recipient's email address. It is about the system.

  Today, various items can be easily purchased using the Internet or mail order. For example, a customer accesses a site established on the Internet and selects and purchases various items, or accesses a general site that handles various types of items and purchases a desired item. Similarly, in the case of mail order sales, there are a method of applying directly to a store for each individual article and a method of purchasing by applying to a department store.

  However, in any of the previous purchase methods, the purchase specifications such as the name of the item to be purchased, the product number, the size, the ordering data such as the number of purchases, and the name, address, telephone number, gender, Customer personal information such as age must be provided to the sales site and other distributors. However, when purchasing an article, there is anxiety about notifying the purchased article name and the purchaser's personal information depending on the nature of the article. For example, there is a case where the purchase must be abandoned when purchasing various articles that solve problems that are unfamiliar with health or body, magazines for adults, entertainment articles, and the like.

Further, when a customer purchases a product through a site on the Internet, personal information such as a credit card number, a telephone number, and an address is sent to the site via the Internet. In this case, the user's personal information may leak to a third party and be used illegally. For example, there is a possibility that data transmitted / received on the Internet is stolen and credit card numbers are misused.
On the other hand, when a customer makes a purchase application to a seller, an article purchase method is proposed in which data specifying a purchase desired article and the like and the customer's own personal information are encrypted and applied. According to this, there has been proposed a method for purchasing an article in which the privacy of a customer can be protected almost certainly regardless of the purchase application of any article using the Internet or a mail order system (for example, see Patent Document 1).

JP 2002-334245 A

  However, in the conventional method for purchasing goods, in order to encrypt and apply for data specifying the goods desired to be purchased and the personal information of the customer itself, the goods and the like that can be used on both the customer side and the seller side Encrypting and decrypting software for encrypting personal information is necessary, and its operation and use are troublesome, and there are inconveniences such as high cost of using the software.

  The present invention has been made in view of the above-described circumstances, and the purpose thereof is to enable the delivery company to provide the receiver with the articles provided by the sender by notifying the receiver's mail address from the sender, Provided is a delivery system for receiving an article, etc. requested by the receiver together with the notice of the recipient's e-mail address from the sender and allowing the delivery company to provide the article (corresponding to the e-mail address) to the recipient. There is.

  In order to achieve the above-described object, the delivery system according to the present invention is a delivery system in which a delivery company that delivers packages and the like delivers delivery packages requested by the sender to the recipient, and the delivery company receives the packages. It has a courier service server that manages the mail address of the main side terminal together with the address and name, and the sender side terminal specifies the mail address of the receiving side terminal and sends the package delivery request information via the communication network. When sent to the server, the server that received the delivery request refers to the management data in the memory, and the delivery request is sent from the sender to the courier in accordance with the address and name receiver information corresponding to the mail address. It is characterized by instructing delivery of the package to the recipient.

  According to the above configuration, the sender simply designates the recipient's e-mail address whose name and name are not known, and deposits the article etc. with the courier, and the courier then sends the recipient to the recipient of the specified address and name. It is possible to deliver the stored article without the sender's knowledge of personal information including the address, name and the like.

  The home delivery system according to the present invention is a home delivery system in which a parcel delivery company that delivers parcels, etc. receives parcels requested by the receiver from the sender and delivers the parcels to the receiver. It has a courier server that manages the mail address of the sender's terminal together with the mail address, address, and name of the sender's terminal in memory, and this server specifies the package etc. and the sender via the communication network. Upon receiving the delivery request information of the package that has been sent, the delivery request is transmitted to the designated sender's terminal, and when the delivery acceptance notification is received from the sender's terminal, the package received from the sender is sent to the recipient Delivery is instructed, and delivery is made to the recipient of the address and name corresponding to the mail address managed by the memory.

  According to the above configuration, the courier company obtains the goods specified through the server from the receiver side terminal from the sender, and can deliver it to the receiver of the name corresponding to the mail address of the receiver side terminal, The receiver can receive the articles provided by the sender without personal information such as the address and name of the receiver being known to the sender.

  According to the present invention, the courier can provide the receiver with the articles provided by the sender so that the sender's personal information is not leaked by the notification of the receiver's mail address from the sender, while the receiver's mail An article or the like requested for purchase by the receiver can be received from the sender together with the notification of the address, and the courier can provide the article or the like to the receiver so that the personal information of the receiver does not leak to the sender.

  The present invention has been briefly described above. Further, the best mode for carrying out the invention described below will be described more clearly with reference to the drawings.

It is a block diagram of the home delivery system by embodiment of this invention. It is explanatory drawing for demonstrating the principal part of the home delivery system shown in FIG. It is explanatory drawing which shows the flow of the information on the delivery system by one Embodiment of this invention. It is explanatory drawing which shows the flow of the information on the delivery system by other embodiment of this invention. It is a flowchart which shows the procedure of the home delivery by the home delivery system shown in FIG. It is a flowchart which shows the procedure of the home delivery by the home delivery system shown in FIG. It is explanatory drawing which shows the flow of money in the home delivery system shown in FIG. It is explanatory drawing which shows the flow of money in the home delivery system shown in FIG. It is a flowchart which shows the flow of money in the delivery system shown in FIG. It is a flowchart which shows the flow of money in the home delivery system shown in FIG.

Hereinafter, a home delivery system according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS.
In FIG. 1, in the home delivery system according to this embodiment, a large number of receivers 13 </ b> A, 13 </ b> B, to 13 </ b> N are connected to the Internet (communication network) 11 via a home delivery company 12. In addition, a large number of senders 14A, 14B, to 14N are connected on the Internet 11. For example, when each of the senders 14A to 14N is an online store, products of these online stores 14A to 14N are handled. PR and purchasing methods are disclosed on the website. The senders 14 </ b> A to 14 </ b> N sell, for example, nursing supplies and adult entertainment items to the receivers 13 </ b> A to 13 </ b> N that are customers through the Internet 11.

  The delivery company 12 has a server 22 that stores and manages the mail address of the receiving side terminal 23 provided by the receiving side 13A to 13N in a memory such as a hard disk together with the address and name of the corresponding receiving side 13A to 13N. For this reason, the receivers 13A to 13N perform a registration procedure for a delivery procedure request by the delivery company 12 in advance and receive a user ID. This registration procedure can be performed through the Internet 11, but can also be performed offline such as by mail. Further, the home delivery company 12 transports goods such as goods from one of the receivers 13A to 13N and the senders 14A to 14N to the other.

FIG. 2 schematically shows a hardware configuration for communicating various information for home delivery between the terminal 23 of one receiver 13 and the terminal 24 of one sender 14 with the server 22 of the delivery company 12 in FIG. 1 as the center. Indicate. The following is divided into a case where the sender 14 sends a package (article) to the receiver 13 whose address and name are unknown, and a case where the receiver 13 receives the package from the sender 14 without giving the address and name to the sender 14. Each home delivery procedure according to the present embodiment will be described with reference to the explanatory diagrams of FIGS. 3 and 4 and the flowcharts of FIGS. Note that the sender 14 and the receiver 13 may be either an individual user or an online store.

(A) When the sender 14 sends a package (article) to the receiver 13 whose name and name are unknown (see FIGS. 3 and 5).
First, the sender 14 creates a “delivery guide” on the registration screen of the terminal 24 and transmits it online to the server 22 of the delivery company 12. This “delivery guide” can use the form transmitted from the server 22 of the delivery company in advance. In the “Sending Guide”, an e-mail address is entered together with the address, name, and telephone number of the sender 14. In addition to the above, the contents of the article to be sent, the scheduled delivery date (possible), the e-mail address of the recipient 13, the price of the paid article, and the like are also entered in this “delivery guide” (step S1).

  The delivery company 12 receives the recipient designated by the sender 14 except for the information related to personal information such as the address, name, and telephone number of the sender 14 in the “delivery guide” received from the terminal 24 of the sender 14 by the server 22. The sending guide is transmitted to 13 mail addresses (step S2). The receiver 13 receives the “delivery guide” on the terminal 23 and sends an e-mail indicating whether the package can be received or returns a “answer screen” to the server 22 of the delivery company 12 (step S3). If the acceptance is “possible”, the address, name, and telephone number of the recipient 13 are entered on the “answer screen” as well as the desired receipt date.

  Upon receipt of the information “acceptance” received from the receiver 13 and the “answer screen” transmitted from the receiver 13, the courier server 22 returns the result of acceptability of the package to the terminal of the sender 14, or “OK”. If it is, a confirmation request for “answer screen” is transmitted (step S4). When the sender 14 receives the confirmation request and determines that the receipt is “permitted” through the terminal 24, the sender 14 determines the date of picking up or bringing in the package. Then, based on the determination, the delivery company 12 is notified of the date of picking up or bringing in the package, and the scheduled delivery date is made through the server 22 (step S5).

  Accordingly, the delivery company 12 receives the confirmation information from the sender 14, calculates the scheduled delivery date to the receiver 13, and returns the calculated scheduled delivery date to the receiver 13 through the terminal 23 (step S6). Thereafter, according to the communication result, the sender 14 brings a predetermined article or the like to the delivery company 12, and the delivery company 12 sorts the article to the receiver 13 and delivers it. In this way, the sender 14 only specifies the mail address of the receiver 13 to the delivery company 12 and does not disclose personal information to the receiver 13, and the target article etc. to the receiver 13 whose address and name are unknown. Can deliver.

(B) When the receiver 13 receives the package from the sender 14 without giving the address and name to the sender 14 (see FIGS. 4 and 6).
First, the receiver 13 looks around the goods of the sender 14 which is a large number of virtual shops on the Internet 11, and specifies the predetermined sender 14 and the goods (articles) to be purchased. Next, the receiver 13 creates a “delivery request guide” on the registration screen of the terminal 23. This “delivery request guide” can use the form transmitted from the server 22 of the delivery company in advance. In this “Sending request guide”, the mail address is entered in addition to the address, name and telephone number of the receiver 13. In addition to the above, the contents of the requested delivery, the date of request delivery, the email address of the sender 14, the payment method (cash on delivery, etc.) for paid items, etc. are also entered in this "Send Request Guide" (step) S21).

  The courier 12 receives the “transmission request guide” from the receiver 13 and uses the mail address of the sender 14 registered in advance in the memory on the server 22 side of the courier 12 through the server 22. "Sending request guide" is transmitted to (step S22). In this case, the mail address on the receiver 13 side is not transmitted to protect personal information. When the sender 14 receives the “delivery request guide”, the sender 14 sends a reply to the courier 12 about whether or not the package (product) can be sent, or “Yes” or “No” on the “answer screen” in a predetermined format. ". Here, when “OK” is entered, the date of picking up or bringing in the package is entered on the “answer screen” (step S23).

  The courier 12 that has received this “reply screen” from the sender 14 sends an email reply to the terminal 23 of the receiver 13 about the result of whether or not the parcel can be sent from the sender 14 and the date when it can be sent. Confirmation is requested (step S24). The recipient 13 notifies the server 22 of the delivery company 12 of the desired date of receipt of the package through the terminal 23 after confirming the “response screen” when the delivery of the package is “possible” (step S25). In response to this notification, the delivery company 12 returns the desired date of receipt to the terminal 24 of the sender 14 through the server 22 (step S26). Thereafter, in response to this answer, the sender 14 provides the merchandise ordered by the receiver 13 to the courier 12, and the courier 12 delivers the merchandise to the receiver 13 on the desired receipt date. .

7 and 8 are explanatory diagrams for explaining the flow of money (business) in the home delivery system, and FIGS. 9 and 10 are flowcharts showing the flow of money.
(A) When the sender 14 sends a package (article) to the receiver 13 whose name and name are unknown (see FIGS. 7 and 9).
First, when using this home delivery system, the home delivery company 12 registers the member registration (issue of ID, etc.) of the sender 14 that has been applied by the sender 14 and the address, name, telephone number, and mail address of the sender 14 (step S31). ). This registration information is made into a database through the server 22. In addition, when an article to be sent from the sender 14 to the receiver 13 is charged, a cash on delivery procedure is performed so that a bank account or the like is not leaked (step S32). Further, the sender 14 pays a delivery fee to the delivery company 12 (step S33).

  On the other hand, when the delivery company 12 delivers the article to the receiver 13, if the article is charged, the price is collected from the receiver 13 (step S34). If the cash-on-delivery procedure has been performed, the cash-on-delivery fee is collected together with the price (step S35). The courier 12 pays the sender 14 for the paid delivery item collected from the receiver 13 (step S36). Further, in the case of postage receiving advance payment, the courier 12 collects the postage from the sender 14 (step S37), whereas in the case of postage sending prepayment, the postage is collected from the receiver 13 (step S38).

(B) When the receiver 13 receives a package from the sender 14 without giving the address and name to the sender 14 (see FIGS. 8 and 10).
First, in using this home delivery system, the home delivery company 12 registers the member registration (issue of ID, etc.) of the receiver 13 that has been applied by the receiver 13 and the address, name, phone number and mail address of the receiver 13. (Step S41). This registration information is made into a database through the server 22.
When the article requested to be sent from the receiver 13 is charged, the courier 12 performs a cash on delivery procedure with the sender 14 (step S42), and collects the price for the receiver 13 ( Step S43). The home delivery fee is also collected (step S44).

  Further, when the article (product) purchased by the receiver 13 is charged, the delivery company 12 collects the cash-on-delivery fee together with the price of the product from the receiver 13 (step 45), and pays the price to the sender 14 (step) S46). In the case of postage prepaid, the courier 12 collects the postage from the receiver 13 (step S47), and in the case of postage prepayment, the courier 12 collects the postage from the sender 14 (step S48).

  As described above, in one embodiment of the present invention, the sender-side terminal 24 designates the mail address of the receiver-side terminal 23 and sends the package delivery request information to the server 22 via the Internet (communication network) 11. When the server 22 receives the delivery request, the server 22 refers to the management data in the memory, obtains address / name receiver information corresponding to the mail address, and sends the delivery request from the sender 14 to the courier 12. It is configured to instruct delivery of the received package to the receiver 13.

  As a result, the sender 14 simply designates the mail address of the receiver 13 whose name and name are not known, and deposits the article etc. with the courier 12, and the courier 12 receives the receipt from the receiver of the predetermined address and name. The personal information of the main 13 can be delivered to the sender 14 without being known to the sender 14.

  In another embodiment of the present invention, the server 22 receives the package delivery request information that is received via the Internet (communication network) 11 by the receiver terminal 23 specifying the package and the sender 14. When the delivery request is transmitted to the terminal 24 of the designated sender 14 and the delivery acceptance notification is received from the terminal 24 of the sender 14, the delivery of the package received from the sender 14 is associated with the memory-managed mail address. The address and name of the recipient 13 are instructed.

  As a result, the delivery agent 12 obtains the article or the like designated from the receiver terminal 23 through the server 22 from the sender 14 and delivers it to the receiver 13 of the address and name corresponding to the mail address of the receiver terminal 24. Accordingly, the receiver 13 can receive the articles provided by the sender 14 without the sender 14 knowing personal information such as the address and name of the receiver 13.

  In the embodiment according to the delivery procedure of (A) and (B), the case where the personal information of the package receiver 13 and the sender 14 is managed using the delivery company side server 22 of the delivery company 12 has been described. However, the personal information such as the address and name of the recipient 13 and the sender 14 of the package corresponding to the mail address managed by the courier server 22 is stored on the server of another personal information manager independent of the courier 12. You may make it register and manage. In this way, the courier 12 that does not have the personal information of the receiver 13 or the sender 14 manages the personal information managed by the personal information manager through the server, such as the address and name required for delivery. The package can be obtained from the trader and delivered to the recipient 13 corresponding to the address and name.

  INDUSTRIAL APPLICABILITY The present invention is useful for a home delivery system or the like that enables delivery and receipt of an article by notifying a partner of personal information by notification of an email address.

11 Internet (communication network)
12 Delivery company 13 Recipient 14 Sender 22 Server 23 Terminal 24 Terminal

Claims (3)

A home delivery system in which a parcel delivery company that delivers parcels, etc. delivers parcels requested for delivery by the sender to the recipient,
The courier has a server that manages the memory of the mail address of the receiver's terminal along with the address and name,
When the sender terminal designates the mail address of the receiver terminal and sends package delivery request information to the server via the communication network, the server receiving the delivery request sends the management data in the memory. Referring to the mail delivery address system, the delivery system instructs the delivery company to deliver the package requested to be delivered from the sender to the receiver in accordance with the address and name receiver information corresponding to the mail address. A delivery system for delivering a package, etc., to a delivery company that receives the package requested by the receiver from the sender and delivers the package to the receiver.
The courier has a server that manages the mail address of the sender's terminal together with the mail address and address and name of the receiver's terminal in memory,
The server receives the delivery request information of the package made through the communication network by specifying the package etc. and the sender by the receiving side terminal, and transmits the delivery request to the designated sender's terminal. When receiving a delivery acceptance notification, the delivery is instructed to deliver the package received from the sender to the recipient, and delivered to the recipient of the address and name corresponding to the memory address managed by the memory. system.   There is a manager who has a server for managing memory of personal information such as the mail address, address, name, etc. of the sender side as well as personal information such as the email address, address, name, etc. of the receiver side terminal. 3. The home delivery system according to claim 1, wherein the personal information on the receiving side and / or the sending side is provided through a server.

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