I hear you. It was so difficult for couriers to deliver where I live that I literally developed a single page website with pics and instructions. Now I just text them the url and access code.
Good idea but: traveller will need to know what he/she will be carrying. Will they deliver in person? Airport could be miles away from the receiver's house.
Couriers here refuse to leave a parcel at the post office. Couriers are such a pain..
Even if it works for me, the post office isn't a good choice for everybody. It might be a long distance away. Enjoy walking 10 kilometers (or more) while carrying a big, heavy package for half the trip?
> 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.
I started renting a PO box for deliveries that I can swing by after work. It sucks to have to carry heavy stuff the last mile, but the alternative is just not getting deliveries ever, and I buy most things through amazon these days.
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