Homeport is small enough to be installed at any location - outside a private house, a shop, a block of flats, an office, a train atation, a surgery, a restaurant etc - and yet it can secure multiple boxes containing deliveries or collections of virtually any size, value and temperature. The size, level of security and cost of portable boxes can be varied any they can either be delivered and collected by the deliverer or owned and secured by the Homeport owner. Homeport can have multiple owners with none able to access the goods of the others. A single Homeport can handle three simultaneous deliveries/collections and when connected in series, can be used as automated public collection points.