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@twyngwyn wrote:
how long has that been in place? I always ask for 'do not safe drop' and this is the first time they have ignored it

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A couple of years if memory serves. One of the many downgrades in service standards while prices rose. Aus Post even lied about it at the time (the option to select "return to nearest PO if no one's home" disappeared from click & send as a delivery instruction to select and "leave in a safe place" became the only one in the list, and back when Alice (rep from Aus Post) still used to post here, she said that it was a technical glitch and they were working on bringing back. They never did (this doesn't necessarily mean that Alice herself knowingly lied, just that someone did), and Aus Post just quietly discontinued the stickers. Some sellers decided to get as many rolls as they could at the time, so would still have them, made their own or will otherwise mark a package as 'do not safe drop', but most posties have been explicitly advised to ignore it. 

Some might still follow it and return packages if they can't find a safe place to leave them, or if it's convenient, or if they never got the memo to ignore it.