Special delivery (signed for post) is pointless

Dual-beam is the usual way to reduce false triggering.

For the majority of the working population no-one will be at home when RM deliver and around my way they have recently reduced the hours the local delivery centre is open for collection (4 hours each day except Monday when it's two hours).

Yes. But pretty robust microphones

Because the trouble is not juts the couriers losing the packages, its people claiming refunds because they 'never got it'.

That's why the photographs and signatures. To prove that they actually delivered it to someone

That someone may not have been you!

I suspect that is not their problem. These days they mostly ask who you are. And photograph you as well

If they dont know you.

I have an IR sensor on the driveway, the only false alarms I get are from birds, cats and the occasional coyote.

The camera is known to them as they're standing there. And I may well be sat indoors and see them on the screen and come out with a crowbar to rearrange their brains.

You talk absolute bollocks. I was missing a package (from Evri, was Hermes), and it said delivered. I looked at the photo, and there was also a satnav coordinate, which placed it in my culdesac. I simply walked round and found the front door with the same pattern, knocked on the door, and found he'd received two of his parcels and my one together, and hidden them quickly as his two were birthday presents for his kid.

Mine didn't (well I didn't check actually), but when I click on the website link to track it, a map is shown.

I've used this when I sold something on Ebay and the buyer said it hadn't arrived. They shut up when I showed them the map from the Royal Mail placing the postman in their front garden.

It would help if the signature looked like a name so I could trace the parcel. Firstly many people sign things so illegibly you can't tell their name. Secondly the touchscreens on the things you sign on are pitiful and you just get a wiggly line. I tried using my fingernail on one for better precision, and it didn't detect the touch at all! Works fine like that on my phone.

Before Covid mine signed for everything but Special Delivery. Helps to be nice to your postman.

That is the problem of the sender.

And wasted that money because it will be sent back to them at their expense.

Convicted of what?

With Li Ion batteries you need to see them, they invented the utter stupidity of not having a sticky out positive end. Now you can put them in backwards, and in some devices they don't make contact.

You're missing the point, I'm not talking about concrete stores. Ebay beats Amazon prices every time. And if you don't mind waiting an extra week, Ali Express is even cheaper.

Sticky out positive ends are so zinc carbon.

Odd, smaller shops are usually more expensive.

The definition of size is: Hamlet: up to 100 people. Village: 100-1000 people. Town: 1000-250,000 people. City: 250,000+ people.

Another definition is: Hamlet: A group of houses. Village: Primary school, few shops, post office, village hall. Town: Lots of houses, primary and secondary schools, as well as sometimes having a railway station and shopping centre. City: Usually has hospitals, sports facilities, universities, shops, offices, many houses and often a cathedral.