I have a PO box 10kms up the road in a different postcode.

If you send something to my home address via courier, the courier driver will not even attempt the 25km drive up my road to deliver.

Instead the driver drops the parcel at a post office 50kms from me in a direction I rarely travel (they have to drop the parcel at a PO with the same postcode as my residential address).

From the sellers end, it will look as if the parcel is delivered ... but it is only sitting at a PO that I have no relationship with awaiting the time I can get there during business hours ... hardly secure ...

It would be much safer to send it to my PO box 10kms up the road where the PO staff know me and will keep the parcel until I get into town ... needless to say, I rarely shop with sellers who only use couriers ...