AP alternatives require an ability to be available for pickup and an ability for the receiver to be available for receipt.

This is the main reason I have avoided couriers to date. They really do not like delivering to residential addresses and they will either just dump the parcel on the doorstep, or take it away and be near impossible to get them to return with it at a convenient time. That and one of my local franchised couriers may not even turn up for collection on the day arranged, forcing me to have to stay home for two entire days waiting.