Brian Wilcox sIn existographies, Brian Willcox (1964-) is an English mechanical engineer noted for his 2013 to present work in the development of BrizeBox, a smartly-designed courier agnostic package mailbox.

Overview
Willcox, in his Amazon.com seller profile (Ѻ), summarizes himself as follows:

“BrizeBox was invented by Brian Willcox. He doesn’t really know how he came up with the idea, it just happened! Brian started off life doing a mechanical engineering apprenticeship, so had a knowledge of things mechanical and how to make things from metal. He spent the next quarter of a century in the world of IT, seeing the Internet grow into the phenomenon that it is today. He regularly bought items online and faced the same problems as everyone else about getting it delivered. He was in a quiet period at home, not working between contracts, thinking of what he could do to start a business, when the idea just came to him. ‘I was trying to think of something that I could sell online’ he says ‘when I realized that anything worth selling online was already being sold there.'

'I’d always been aware of what a nuisance it was to get parcels delivered, so I thought I’d come up with a solution! Rather than selling a product online to fulfil the needs of a specialist section of society, I realised that I could produce something that would be in demand by a vast number of people, globally. I recognized that it would help a lot of people by making their lives easier and also cut down on co2 pollution, and that was of great appeal to me. Anyone selling products online would want their customers to own a BrizeBox because then their customers would find it easier to order more items. Anyone who was delivering the products would want their customers to own a BrizeBox because there would be no more frustration about not being able to safely deliver parcels and having to leave tickets, repeated delivery attempts etc. And anyone ordering online would want a BrizeBox because they would no longer have the headache of whether their parcel would actually be delivered. Benefits all round’.”

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BrizeBox
In 2012, Willcox, frustrated with online ordering delivery issues, began to think seriously about inventing a smartly designed package mailbox, aka a “courier agnostic” design, as he says; the following are some of his early trial and error designs:

BrizeBox (development)

On 28 Jan 2013, Wilcox purchased the domain BrizeBox.com, and thereafter began working to bring his smart package mailbox company into realization.

MailCube | BrizeBox
See main: BrizeBox MailCube
In Sep 2017, Libb Thims, who since 2003 (see: below) had been working, intermittently, towards the launch of MailCubes, a smart package mailbox company (see: smart mailbox), discovered Willcox's BrizeBox designs, which were high quality and nearly akin to Thims' drop-floor designs, albeit Wilcox was farther along in the production stage, compared to Thims, and therein decided that it would be advantageous to combined forces with Wilcox, working towards a common goal: [2]

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Education
In 1980, Willcox, aged 16, left home and began work in a four-year apprenticeship in mechanical engineering with Johnson Matthey, after which, from 1985 to 1987, completed a higher national degree (HND) in electrical and electronics engineering, and in 1989 started working as an IT contractor, working for many years with large corporations; in 2015, he gave up IT to focus on BrizeBox. [1]

References
1. Willcox, Brian. (2017). "Skype with Libb Thims", Oct.
2. Home – MailCubes.com.

External links
Brian Willcox – LinkedIn.
Home – BrizeBox.com.
BrizeBox – Twitter.com.
BrizeBox – YouTube.com.
BrizeBox – Instagram.

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