Ask HN: What can be done to fix package delivery?

Re:Ask HN: What can be done to fix package delivery? by dragonwriter on Friday July 31, 2015 @02:56PM (#9983602)

> Physical parcels are nearly always delivered nowadays by a system where a driver will turn up on a working weekday, at an entirely undefined hour or in a very wide time window, and expect a signature or at least a human to accept the parcel, immediately, or they take the parcel and go away again.

Really? Most delivery services either default to no-signature-required or provide an option; requiring a human or signature seems to be the exception not the norm.

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Re:Ask HN: What can be done to fix package delivery? by HeyLaughingBoy on Friday July 31, 2015 @04:57PM (#9984446)

I think this is location dependent. I live on a farm: packages are left at the front door or inside any vehicle in the driveway if it's raining.

However, when I lived in the city, UPS/Fedex would often refuse to leave packages at the front door.

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Re:Ask HN: What can be done to fix package delivery? by dragonwriter on Friday July 31, 2015 @05:39PM (#9984687)

It used to seem to be that most UPS/FedEx deliveries of were signature-required, it seems to be the norm (default option with most online orders delivered by those vendors) now that they are not (though both do still offer delivery that is signature confirmed.) Definitely a change over the last couple decades, but I don't think its an urban/rural thing (I've lived in various parts of Northern California suburbia throughout the change.)

Google Express has this as an explicit option in their order flow.

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