What about getting a big, safe box outside your door for the postman to drop your packages into? If your local post office is closer than your friends' local post office, perhaps you could arrange for the packages to go straight there and just the 'did not deliver' note through your letterbox. If it has to go in the vulnerable mail box, lock it up so that letters and such can get through but prying fingers can't.
Let's say that your hopes of being there for the courier aren't fulfilled. What are you going to do?
Let's say that your hopes of being there for the courier aren't fulfilled. What are you going to do?