Unless you have a concierge in your apartment building, the packages either get redirected to parcel depots, or you have to rely on the goodwill of neighbors to take them for you, or they get delivered to your building's management office, which may not be open all the time.
Rob Wotherspoon, branch secretary of the CWU Bristol branch, said that he can't remember another time when there has been so much unofficial action taking place in distribution offices and parcel depots.
One of the other venues is Mayfield Depot, an old steam railway station and later, parcels depot, which has stood derelict since 1986.
On the right of the Station Approach but at a lower level is the B&ER office building designed by Samuel Fripp; the 1930s offices known as "Collett House" (named after Charles Collett) and a disused parcels depot lie beyond.
Go to the nearest magic shop and ask for "rod" or "wand" (if you're a druid, you're a rod user, if you're a sorcerer you're a wand user)and buy a parcel in the depot.
Administrators at Ernst & Young (EY), who were formally appointed on Christmas Eve, have warned staff to expect "substantial redundancies" at the parcel firm's depots around the country.
INSTEAD of coming home to find a note from the deliveryman, downtown workers in this bustling city can pick up their parcels at a "depot" near subways and commuter concourses, courtesy of Empori.com, a start-up that merges the role of concierge with the convenience of the Web.
Big courier firms will tell you if the parcel is in a depot or out for delivery, but not the precise coordinates.
But that does not include any time waiting at the depot for parcels, sick pay or holidays, or the £1,000 handbreak repair her car needed recently.
