@lyndal1838 wrote:
From memory you have mentioned in the past that it is not suitable to leave packages at the front door.....is it any better at the back door?
It is at my house. The location to leave parcels is behind the recycle bin next to the back door. This puts parcels under the eaves, protected from rain by the bin......and out of the path of the screen door.
On that side of the house there's also shrubbery, a slight bump out of the kitchen, and the cat's outdoor wire run to blur the location when viewed from the footpath or road.....and the distance to see anything is much longer than at the front door.
My front door is only 3 metres from the public footpath (full of school kids and parents twice a day), with just a couple of steps and no shrubbery or anything else to hide a parcel....or in fact protect it from the elements (most times rain direction hits that side of the house than the back). There's no verandah so a box left on a step means opening the screen door to get it is hell.
I am more bothered about small parcels left in my letterbox until my cleaner/carer can retrieve my mail for me as I can no longer walk the distance to the letterbox and back due to arthritis. If I know a parcel is there (got to love tracking) and it's days until I can expect help I have been known to call out to complete strangers (the school kid's mothers) for help or order something delivered / fixed / whatever and ask for the person to also get my mail. If I'm really lucky I'll nab the parcel delivery contractor and ask him to get the mail from the letterbox as well. LOL
