Apparatus and system for receiving and delivering parcels from a drone

A system for receiving parcels from a drone, the system comprising:

• a storage compartment comprising:
• a housing defining an aperture for receiving a drone and a parcel;
• a door mounted to a track, the track mounted on an uppermost portion of the housing, wherein the door is configured to move to a first barrier position for closing the aperture restricting access to an interior of the storage compartment, and wherein the door is configured to move to a second barrier position for opening the aperture to provide access to the interior of the storage compartment;
• a landing platform defined by the housing, the landing platform configured to move to a first platform position proximate to the aperture or to move to a second platform position away from the aperture;
• a door operating mechanism for moving the barrier to the first barrier position or the second barrier position synchronously with the movement of the landing platform to the first platform position or the second platform position, respectively;
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• an actuator for moving the landing platform to the first platform position or the second platform position;
• one or more data processors;
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• non-transitory machine-readable memory storing instructions executable by the one or more data processors and configured to cause the one or more data processors to:
• determine, using data associated with a received parcel, an addressee of the received parcel;
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• automatically initiate transmission of a message to the addressee for notifying the addressee of the parcel's arrival.