Well...I'm a little biased. I deliver overnight packages for an unnamed company and I'm on the road by 7am and deliver until 11am. Most of our packages are marked "deliver by 10:30am". And on my route there are a lot of apartment complexes with these gates. Well, I guess my point is that I deliver several overnight packages/letters to residents that live in these apartments and some are attempted before 9am (most leasing offices on this route don't open until 9am). I can try to call the customer to let me in but in most situations they are either on their way to work, dropping kids off at school, or running errands. So, anytime between 7am-9am it is very difficult to make a delivery to the people if I don't piggy-back someone into the complex. Sometimes I have to wait 5-10 minutes before I ever see anyone entering the complex. Oh, in case you are wondering, these packages/letters do not have to be signed for since they are being delivered to residences. So, we actually try to drop most of these off earlier in our routes since other businesses often don't open until 9am.
I agree however .. criminal are criminals and I would worry that it would make you more of a target. . . .. cause that is the way criminals are they get madd are people doing the right thing . . cause well they are criminals and they don't think like normal folx I hate when some A-Hole will block the frickin entrance until someone comes in and have the code. Then won't even give the person the courtesy to go in 1st. Even if you try to call someone . . someone will let them in before help arrives. Rrocket River
Apartment security gates are a joke. I was glad the last apartment complex I lived in didn't have them. If I ever did move back into a complex I would much prefer it not having gates, and I would try to find a complex without them. That said, if you are taking a risk by squeezing into a gate and hit hits your car you have nobody to blame but yourself.
One thing I like to point out is that as cell phones become more and more common as the only phone some one carries, a lot of gates don't work because they can't dial long distance. This is true especially for kids away from home in college. A lot of time it's much faster to piggy back ( 5 - 10 min) then to wait for your friends to come and open the gate.
I once hit the gate...or wait was that more than once? I would be mad but then it would be my fault for piggy-backing the front car.
Gates are such a hassle when you really have to go pee. You start punching in the codes in a mad hurry and you're usually wrong the first couple of times and that's a no good for my bladder. Then you get home and have to deal with the toilet seat being up?!
