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We should have you stuffed Sal. But maybe when you have lost a bit of that weight you are aiming for, we wouldn't want to be giving the taxidermist a heart attack.
Sal does raise some serious points here though, and it's from things like this that new business ideas are born.
The most important of which is, being able to receive your goods, regardless of whether you are in or not, at a time that is convenient to you.
Hence, the Securit (TM)
You know those things that store salt by the sides of the roads ?
One of them.
Made of galvanised steel, and secured to the ground/fence/whatever.
It has a digital keypad.
It has a large lid and can hold bulky items that will not physically fit in the letter box.
Locate it in the front garden, or next to the bins, etc.
Arrange a delivery with company X. Give them a temporary keycode.
Man arrives, enters keycode, drops item inside, closes lid, and mechanism locks and erases temporary key code. (The admin overide keycode is still there of course, so you can open it when you get home).
No mess, no fuss, and no hassle, and suitable for most people with houses that have an area to locate the Securit.
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
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