Volvo Project Aims To Make 'Roam Delivery' Easier Than Home Delivery

Do you have issues with home package delivery? What if you could simply get deliveries tucked neatly into your car?

The automaker Volvo is working on that. It cites 2013 data, noting that 60 percent of those shopping online have, and that home delivery in general places additional time constraints—and thus stress—on daily schedules.

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While e-commerce sites have made shopping far easier, the sticky note on the door—and the challenges of being around for home delivery—has become an odd catch in an otherwise slick process.

The scheme spearheaded by Volvo is challenging that, aiming to have delivery carriers catch up with you, wherever you are: In other words, with your car.

Volvo aims to give you the option, via its Volvo On Call suite of telematics services, to take ‘roam delivery’ to your car—by allowing a delivery company one-time access to it, and where it is. It makes a lot of sense, especially for Americans, who tend to use their cars for everything.

The automaker presented this service last year, when we first reported on it, at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Prior to that it was tested in a pilot program of 100 people.