U-Haul App-Based Lockbox Failures Strand Customers on Moving Day
Customers arriving for U-Haul self-pickup face app lockbox failures with no working fallback, causing multi-hour delays on moving day. Support is slow and the resolution path is unclear. Moving day delays have severe cascading costs — movers, apartment access windows, utility transfers.
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