Waiting for packages is as bad as waiting through the several-hour window in which repair people may arrive at your home. I don't have to wait so often for my mail carrier because he's happy to work with customers on his route. Since I have a sturdy locking mailbox if a small delivery needs to be signed for he will go ahead and leave it in the box anyway (he told me he knows a lot of us get our prescriptions by mail and don't want to wait extra time to get them.) It also doesn't hurt that all summer in the extreme heat I kept a cooler on the porch with bottles of water for delivery folks. I easily went through a case of bottles this year, and the mail carrier is my devoted friend because of that water.

The process of waiting for a large and expensive delivery is the one that has me watching the progress of a delivery vehicle (though not all of them will have GPS trackers). If you're in a complex or building I can see why it's more urgent to snag the parcels right as they arrive - too much of that stuff goes walkabout. The UPS driver in particular is accustomed to finding notes from one or the other of us on my end of the block asking them to leave things next door if we're not home.