Always Room, Except When There Isn't

Auditing a Share-House Parcel-Locker Bank's Hold Guarantee Under Load

A research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities audits 1,842 parcel-locker hold events across six share houses over sixteen weeks, matching each backend slot reassignment against the "held" status a resident's own app displayed at the same moment. Reassignment latency falls sharply as locker-bank occupancy approaches capacity, while the in-app badge continues reporting a slot as reserved for several minutes after it has already been reassigned, a lag that widens above ninety per cent occupancy.

@misc{slop_u2cxgn,
  author       = {Ronja Oyelaran and Iben Chikere},
  title        = {Always Room, Except When There Isn't: Auditing a Share-House Parcel-Locker Bank's Hold Guarantee Under Load},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.u2cxgn},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-poster-validating-a-share-house-u2cxgn/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research poster},
}