Another problem appearing here is porch pirates. The no contact delivery is dump it on the doorstep, press the bell and leave it if the person is in or not. So the local dickheads have been following the vans around and doing "pickups" whenever someone doesn't answer the door. Cunts.
My amazon delivery that went missing the other day made an appearance. They delivered it to a house 15 numbers up the street. The guy who lived there was kind enough to drop it off and explain
My DPD delivery yesterday (half a new PC) "could not be left in a safe place". They require the door to be opened, and - from a safe distance - take a picture of the open door and the parcels and my legs. Not a bad technique.
My CCLOnline order status hasn't changed from "stock allocated" and "processing", and is due to be delivered on Monday. If there's no progress by then I'll copy bd in cancelling the order, and file CCLOnline in my "avoid" bin.
As for wrong house number, I regularly get deliveries for a similar street that isn't marked on many of the satnavs, and even google marks the back alley rather than the front entrance. The houses are only pre-WW2, so what can you expect. Worst delivery: full height scaffolding!
Other oddities: there's a road near my old gliding club that doesn't have a name, so the addresses are of the form "Downs Barn Lodge, Frampton Mansell, Stroud GL6 8HX" where Frampton Mansell is the nearest village about 1km away. I wonder how they manage to fill in address forms that require certain fields!
Anyway, time to go and combine two legal activities: getting food (elderflowers) and exercise (walking to find the elderflowers).