> I've not had to go pick up a package in basically ever, Back In The Day, couriers treated every parcel as if it contained a high-end laptop worth several wee

> I've not had to go pick up a package in basically ever, Back In The Day, couriers treated every parcel as if it contained a high-end laptop worth several weeks' wages - it either gets signed for by someone in the right building or it goes back to the depot. And if you want to collect from the depot, you'd better have government-issued photo ID matching the name on the package. Leaving such a valuable item just sitting on someone's porch? Without a signature? Unthinkable! And as the deliveries were conducted 9-5 Monday-Friday, if you were in work those hours every parcel would end up at the depot, no matter how many redelivery attempts they made. Of course in the modern age, where a courier knows they might be delivering a $2 tube of toothpaste instead of a $2000 laptop, things are different.