[boring_twenties]

Yikes, I would never in a million years use a shipping service that delivered my packages to my neighbor, nor one that required me to go to a pickup point. WTF is the point of that? If I wanted to go somewhere to pick up my stuff, I'd just buy it from a store instead of ordering it online!

[lock-the-spock]

Most mail carriers (the majority of deliveries are carried by a national (ex) monopoly let you choose what you want to happen to your package. And we have many corner shops in EU cities and towns, and the mail companies have installed dedicated lockers as well in central locations, so a pickup point is usually 5 minute walk away. On the neighbour - for me that's normal. I guess we generally trust our neighbours more? We also do not have the strange U.S. laws that you can keep anything that arrives at your door, so it is normal for anyone to receive (and then hand over) neighbour's parcels. Like a real community...

[boring_twenties]

Thanks for the long winded justification, but all of these are strictly worse than simply leaving my package at the doorstep. I'm 40 years old and in my entire life I have had exactly one package go missing after being delivered... that risk is not worth even considering "a 5 minute walk" to get every packages, nevermind having them delivered to random neighbors -- that's just beyond the pale, absolutely absurd.