Maybe unrelated, but yesterday I went to pick up my package from an Amazon Locker in Germany, and the display said "Service unavailable". I'll wait until later today before I go and try again.
I wonder why a package locker needs connectivity to give you a package. Since your package can't be withdrawn again from a different location, partitioning shouldn't be an issue.
Generally speaking, it's easier to have computation (logic, state, etc.) centralized. If the designers didn't prioritize scenarios where decentralization helped, then centralization would've been the better option.
