Hmm, this seems to be a theme!
My experience was the regular postie shoving a pile of letters through the letterbox with a red "We tried to deliver but you were out" card already filled in and in the middle of the pile. Unfortunately for him, I saw him on the drive and we had a "discussion" shall we say...
He didn't even have the parcel in his van!
And as a comparison, I ordered my new camera on Tuesday, it arrived this morning at 11.00 am, all the way from Hong Kong!
Pete