The future of hassle-free shopping is with locker pickup services, offering quick and convenient collection of your goods, avoiding the frustrations of missed deliveries and long queues. Picture: Brendan Magaar/African News Agency(ANA)/Google Gemini

We’ve all been there: Ye set aside a day to stay home or at the office to receive a delivery, and it just never comes. Now you have to rearrange your schedule and get on the phone with your courier to find out just exactly when your goods will arrive.

I’ve had particular frustrations recently with RAM Couriers as they somehow can’t get through to you when you’ve provided them with two contact numbers.

You then follow up with them only to find out the delivery person was at your gate many hours earlier when they ‘tried to reach you’.

But I digress. If you don’t mind availing yourself of that, that’s just fine.