Hi, I'm a Singaporean and here is my 2 cents in how signed delivery packages works (or tracked delivery packages)
As far as I know, the courier would first ring the bell of your residence and check if you are at home, if you are you have to signed the package and acknowledge it (or someone else in hour residence would)
If there is nobody at home, they would leave a note and request for you to collect it at the nearby post office on the next working day
I have been signing several tracked packages and never have I heard of a request asking to leave the package at the shoe rack. Please do mind that Singaporeans usually stays in a flat (pigeon holes) and the place is usually accessible to hundreds over residence in the particular block
However, unless OP stays in a bungalow or terrace than that is a different thing, but then of course, if he were, the shoe rack wouldn't be outside his house XD
I never had a courier calling me unless the client who would be sending me the parcel requests me to leave my contact, if I am not at home, they would call me and ask how would I be collecting the package, not through sms as I might not be with my phone at that time. This too happens to me several times and the courier agrees to send on the next working day.
For now. I am intrigued on who is the courier, is it the private courier or is it FedEx, USPS, Singpost,
If it is private, I guess OP have the right to have to know who the company is
But if it those large company based, I never had them calling me stating that I was not at home
Well just my 2 cents and hopes those not living in Singapore who know how courier works in Singapore
