Ask HN: What can be done to fix package delivery?

Hacker News, I appeal to your creativity.

Physical parcels are nearly always delivered nowadays by a system where a driver will turn up on a working weekday, at an entirely undefined hour or in a very wide time window, and expect a signature or at least a human to accept the parcel, immediately, or they take the parcel and go away again.

Clearly, this system was thought up when you could reasonably expect that every house would have that convenient utility, a "housewife", more or less trapped in the house 24/7 and therefore a highly reliable delivery target, For various reasons ranging from "everybody works" to "large numbers of people living alone" to "sexism is bad", this assumption is completely broken in the 21st century.

It's not plausible for recipients to take a whole day off work to receive a packet. Let alone several, if the deliverer is sloppy. (Could the window be narrowed by precise driving plans?)

It's not plausible for deliverers to be willing to deliver every packet on a weekend. (Could delivery at night be a thing?)

It's not secure for the packet to be dropped in front of your door unsupervised or given to a random neighbor. (Could we automatically divert it to where we work?)

How can we fix it, realistically, and soon?