Brooklyn resident here, USPS itself also does that, and it's worse: They will pretend to deliver and mark the tracking status as "delivery attempted, customer n

Brooklyn resident here, USPS itself also does that, and it's worse: They will pretend to deliver and mark the tracking status as "delivery attempted, customer not home". It has happened on numerous occasions that I have been home the entire day, and it's obvious that they never came by. I used to live in Norway, where the exact same thing went on: Anything sent from the US via USPS would show as "delivery attempted", but it was the same thing. So my theory is that this is code for "dumped directly at the PO". (Here in NYC I have never once received a delivery slip from the USPS. Which is frustrating, because it means you have to remember to check the tracking status every now and then to see if you should go to the post office.)