Our postie already uses her common sense & delivers anything that won't fit through our letter box or a 'signed for' parcel with a neighbour ........ we'd had various things delivered to our house to for others. It's worked here for years
Don't know what the fuss is about

The
postman does just that. Impossible to complain about.
Parcelfarce van drivers are an entirely different issue. They are on job and knock(I know a couple), and the faster they do their round, the earlier they go home. There are no penalties for not delivering parcels, so the procedure is: park the van in the road(blocking it if necessary) directly outside the house; give a virtually silent tap on the door, even if there is a working bell; scribble the
You've paid us to deliver this parcel, but we can't be bothered. If you still want it, it's getting in our way at Best Street sorting office. Come and collect it soon before we lose, damage or steal it card, ensuring that there isn't a time on it; shove it partially in the letterbox(don't want to risk those fingers); and leg it back to the van. At my address, that lot takes about 10 seconds. We missed a trick at the Olympics; it the sprinting team had been postmen, they'd have made Usain Bolt look about as fast as a snail.
They should stop pretending that they are a parcel delivery service. Sell the vans, sack the drivers, keep the parcel at the sorting office and get the postman to deliver the cards. The result would be the same, and profits would increase.
Also, I'd like to know how the Royal Mail -or whatever stupid name they've chosen this week- can get a parcel from the other end of the country overnight, but I can't collect it from the sorting office less than a mile away for another 24 hours.