City Link took three attempts to deliver a package from BT to my address ... I live on a main road ... I only had contact with BT and they were most apologetic but I ask the Lady on the phone if they had a "special notice" box ... I told her to tell 'em to look for the street name sign and count ... 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and to stop @ #5 ... you see, our numbers
are odd & even on the same side of the street.
Forth time lucky.
The main company I used to get my stock from had an extra charge for next day ... with a rider that, it was not guaranteed that you would get it next day

... they used City Link also.
Funny though, I always got the stuff the next day anyway.