Described and illustrated is a piece goods cabinet (1) for holding piece goods (21) to be picked up, comprising a plurality of separate piece goods compartments (2, 30, 40) for inserting and removing piece goods (21), comprising a control device (10) for controlling the
insertion and removal of piece goods (21) into or from the piece goods compartments (2) and comprising an
authentication device (5) for authenticating a person picking up the piece goods (21), wherein the piece goods compartments (2, 30, 40) are each assigned a locking device (3) which can be adjusted from a locking position preventing access to the associated piece goods compartment (2, 30, 40) into an opening position permitting access to the associated piece goods compartment (2, 30, 40),wherein the control device (10) is coupled to at least one locking device (11) which can be adjusted from a locking position locking a closure device (3) in the closed position to a release position enabling the closure device (3) to be adjusted to the open position, and wherein the
authentication device (5) for activating the control device (10) upon successful
authentication of the
pickup person is coupled to the control device (10). In order to enable
pickup persons to remove piece goods more easily from the corresponding piece goods compartments, it is provided that at least some of the piece goods compartments (2, 30, 40) have a rear wall unit (17, 33, 41) which can be adjusted within the associated piece goods compartment (2, 30, 40) from a rear non-use position to at least one front use position for displacing a piece goods compartment (2, 30,40) contained piece goods (21) forwards in the direction of an opening (14) of the piece goods compartment (2,30,40).