Automated physical package delivery with end-to-end package security

A method for automated package delivery with end-to-end package security, the method comprising:

• delivering a physical package autonomously to a recipient at a physical recipient destination by an autonomous package delivery vehicle in accordance with direction by a drone controller at a distribution facility remote from both a sender location and the physical recipient destination,
• wherein the physical package has a unique package identifier associated, by a sender, with delivery information indicating the physical recipient destination and a logical recipient destination,
• wherein the physical package has contents secured by an electronic lock that is locked by the sender using a lock code encrypted by an encryption key to generate the encrypted lock code, the encryption key generated in accordance with a decryption key of the recipient of the physical package, such that the decryption key is usable to decrypt the encrypted lock code to unlock the electronic lock,
• wherein physical access by the recipient to the physical package is restricted by the autonomous package delivery vehicle when delivered;
• authenticating the recipient at the physical recipient destination, based on identifying information provided by a recipient device associated with the logical recipient destination, the identifying information being separate from the lock code and the decryption key, and having been stored in association with the unique package identifier at the distribution facility;
• and
• physically releasing the physical package to the recipient responsive to successfully completing the authenticating.