I was able to do a friend a favor today - the public computers with scanners were not starting properly, so I brought home a letter he needed scanned. I used Photoshop and created good-quality TIFF files that I combined to a PDF. He hadn't put the current date, and after sending the PDF he said he realized the error - it was an easy photoshop tweak to correct the date and resend it.
Tami - your box is the USPS one. I keep a painted table/bench thing on my front porch that is a nice perch to sit and look at the yard and up the street, but also serves as an object to block the view of packages delivered to the house. Assuming the delivery person has the good sense to put the parcel on the porch behind the bench and not on top of it.