I'd outlaw sauce bottles which make getting it all out harder, especially the ones which don't have the opening at the bottom and make it impossible to put the bottle with the opening facing downwards.
I'd outlaw sauce bottles which make getting it all out harder, especially the ones which don't have the opening at the bottom and make it impossible to put the bottle with the opening facing downwards.
Postman must knock and wait 5 minutes for you to answer the door by law. If you have proof that they didn't knock or wait the required time they must redeliver the parcel by way of barbershop quartet at a time that is convenient for you.
I'd much rather ban home delivery for most parcel (stuff like couches and fridges excluded) and have them put in one of those package vaults.
The postman drives all the packages to the vault, chucks them in, you pick them up when you've got time (they work 24/7), everyone wins.
We've got these things everywhere in Poland. Nearest one is a bike away.
Would maybe work in some places. I at least get the angle of encouraging people to order online less, if this were the situation I think more people would prefer to buy things from brick and mortar stores if they could find it. But in areas with car dependency problems it'd make life worse, particularly if the company decides it's not profitable enough to put a package vault in a town or in reasonable distance of it, which I could absolutely see happening in rural areas of non-densely populated places.
We have this option to redirect parcels to a locker but it's less efficient then just having it delivered. A post service here batches all deliveries for an area together so they can make them all in one trip.
Compare that to each individual family having to drive their own car to the post office and it's clear what is better over all. There is few means to use public transport here however, it's an almost hour trip by bus there and back on a good day vs 15 minutes in a car.
The concept of package lockers works best if you can go there by foot or bike. Then it is now fuel efficient. If you have to drive to the locker it makes the whole thing useless
Postmen tend to be extremely overworked and underpaid. Many are paid per parcel delived and your idea would probably kill the job of delivery all together. Unless you plan to increase the postmen workforce by 700% and also reintroduce slavery I see no way why anyone would do that.
Yes, paying them a living wage was assumed.