The best thing ever about my new job (apart from it being quite fabulous in many other way).
There are office staff there nearly 24/7 who'll sign for parcels on my behalf and bring them to my office.
Best damn concept ever, my previous place wouldn't allow it en-masse but this place has staff living on site so they can't really refuse. I've had all my Christmas shopping delivered there.
Queuing at the Post Office is about the bottom of my choices for how to get hold of a parcel addressed to me. I've had enough of it, the incompetence, the timing ("we only deliver during working hours, and our offices are open for collection for about 30 minutes after that"), the queuing, the parking, you name it. There's a reason that Amazon designed their own collection service and hire people to drive around delivering parcels at night.
I'd rather spend a couple of quid extra and get a courier who will deliver the parcel to my neighbours rather than just put things through my door, and who will try to deliver in the evenings and weekends rather than 9 - 5 Mon-Fri.
Whatever happened to the "deliver parcels to the local Tube station" idea?