This is why couriers got so brazen with delivering our parcels

Everyone either knows someone who's got a shocking parcel delivery story or has one themselves. Here's mine: I posted a valuable piece of collectable music merch via courier, who helpfully left the parcel out in the pouring rain. The contents got soaked and damaged in the process.

- Felicity Martin, The Independent

My appeals to the delivery company's customer service department fell on deaf ears (not that I'm convinced I was even speaking to a human in the first place), and they offered zero compensation. Other tales include packages being shunted into recycling wheelie bins (which are inevitably collected), stuffed under doormats, or flung over fences. Ellie, from Manchester, had one parcel left in her food waste bin — which contained food waste at the time. She can't wear the contents, a sports bra, without remembering the smell as she fished out the package. Glasgow-based Harvey had a tablet delivered to his outdoor bin, which was described as a “safe space”. When he asked the delivery company why this was designated a secure spot, he was told: “Nobody goes looking in other people’s bins.”