Bufferbox

BufferBox was a Waterloo, Ontario startup that operated self-service parcel-pickup lockers for online shoppers, letting people route e-commerce deliveries to a nearby locker and collect them with a PIN. Google acquired BufferBox in November 2012 and wound the service down in early 2015. The company is defunct and operates no developer or API surface; the bufferbox.com and bufferbox.ca domains are parked (resolving to a Bizland placeholder host), so this profile carries no API artifacts. Retained in the API Evangelist network as a historical logistics / last-mile-delivery record.

Bufferbox is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Logistics, Parcel Lockers, Last Mile Delivery, and E-commerce.

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6.8/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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CompanyLogisticsParcel LockersLast Mile DeliveryE-commerceDefunct

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

Composite quality — 6.8/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20

Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.8 / 10

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

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Source (apis.yml)

aid: bufferbox
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/bufferbox.png
name: Bufferbox
description: BufferBox was a Waterloo, Ontario startup that operated self-service parcel-pickup lockers for online shoppers,
  letting people route e-commerce deliveries to a nearby locker and collect them with a PIN. Google acquired BufferBox in
  November 2012 and wound the service down in early 2015. The company is defunct and operates no developer or API surface;
  the bufferbox.com and bufferbox.ca domains are parked (resolving to a Bizland placeholder host), so this profile carries
  no API artifacts. Retained in the API Evangelist network as a historical logistics / last-mile-delivery record.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/bufferbox/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- a16z
- gv
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-18'
tags:
- Company
- Logistics
- Parcel Lockers
- Last Mile Delivery
- E-commerce
- Defunct
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence