Delivery companies

What is it with delivery companies? They clearly are not what they say on the tin.

For domestic deliveries, it is rather unreasonable to assume that nobody has a job and will of course be at home on any day during office hours. I mean, what kind of weird-ass assumption is that? They'd actually deliver more of there packages if they ran a weekend extended running hours, and certainly on a sunday; as it is, it seems that they manage to fail to deliver almost every single package.

So, you can either ring to arrive another delivery time, or come to the depot at your own inconvenience. Why not ring to arrange a delivery time in the first place? Save your company a lot of petrol and man-hours. Likewise, returning stuff to the depot makes a mockery of the idea that 'home delivery' is a convenient way for the busy worker to do shopping, since you then have to devote actually more of your free time to picking up said package.

Ridiculous. Supermarkets seem to manage to deliver in the evening, why not everything else? I will now have to spend saturday morning riding to Basingstoke for about an hour to pick up some bike cleaner. Utterly ridiculous.