By far my favourite delivery company in the UK are DPD, who provide solutions to all of these problems. On the day of delivery I get a text message from DPD giv

By far my favourite delivery company in the UK are DPD, who provide solutions to all of these problems. On the day of delivery I get a text message from DPD giving a delivery window which is somehow both very specific and quite vague: "your delivery will arrive between 10:54am and 11:54am". If I know I'm not going to be in during that delivery window I can follow a link and ask them to either leave it on my doorstep, with a neighbour, redirect it to a local post office, or attempt delivery on a different day. None of this is difficult to do, most delivery companies just don't bother.