The picture.
Sounds like things are going downhill fast in the delivery business. I used to drive for a courier company that sometimes picked up residential orders from larger outfits like FedEx and UPS. But the rules remained the same for their deliveries, signatures required unless otherwise indicated, so it used to be the normal procedure not an exception.
You might not get fired for leaving a delivery at a door when not authorized, but if it happened two or three times you would be fired. And if anyone lost a delivery between an unauthorized drop and when they looked for it, the driver was on the hook financially to replace the item whatever it may have cost (plus the second delivery fee).
Can’t say whether the fleet drivers for the bigger companies had those same conditions. However the bigger companies were always on the phone with our smaller company’s dispatchers to get the contact info for deliveries.
Sounds a bit different now in this age where everyone is getting a lot of stuff delivered. If you sign off on requiring a signature you’re taking the chance of having one of those thieves who follow delivery trucks hitting your location.
The worst delivery error I can recall was way before my time as a driver, some oil company pumped heating oil into an address in one town but the client lived at that same address in another town. Somebody without an oil furnace got a basement full of heating oil through an old connection.
What picture?
Oh... The one that was meant to make me look like a fool without any reason to even do so?
Yes... I saw that childishness too. I am sorry you found it funny.