[distances]

Germany has interesting approach for this: if you can't be reached, the delivery will be left to whichever neighbour or coffee shop happens to accept it. You'll get notified where it was left, and then just go knocking.

It's quite weird at first but in my experience works surprisingly well. Very rarely one has to go queue in the post office to collect the parcel.

[eridan2]

My friends from Germany told me the small packages from Amazon are left at your door

[Semaphor]

That’s only the case if it was delivered by Deutsche Post (instead of DHL) and does not fit into your mailbox, or, in the case of DHL, when you told them to do it via their website.