Postmen leaving a card saying you were out... when you were actually in

[NokkonWud]

The best service I had around here was Amtrak, but they had an awful rep over on OcUK so started using other, inferior (to my area) couriers. The delivery driver I used to have from Amtrak was superb and would never throw stuff about. The back of his van was incredibly tidy with all boxes stacked in weight order with fragile ones all out of the way.

Royal Mail, in my experience, are the worst. They're happy to just card rather than deliver, at my old address I saw one do what he did to Kreeeee, simply walk up with a card, when I answered he even gave the same excuse (I tried, went back for a card). Why get a job as a courier if you can't be arsed to deliver? These people tend to forget that they're easily replaceable.