I don't think it is. It is more of a case of letting the mailman know that he screwed up in delivering it.
I had a package delivered by smart post and I got to track it, well it was painfully slow getting here and toured a good part of the south before I finally received it...Never again...
Yeah.................that way they get a 2nd chance to screw it up and preserve their jobs.....................
Mine evidently has a short memory, because he's pretty regular about bringing someone else's mail to my house. Happened just a couple days ago.........again. That flag is getting a gooder workout.
The UPS drivers told me that UPS did not want them to leave anything at a business without a signature. I asked them why that was because they will leave laptop computers and stuff laying on porches all over the countryside at residential places without a signature and they didn't know. Gary
I ship and receive a lot daily. Had pretty good luck for as much stuff that's shipped in/out. Some Amazon packages makes me wonder how goodachit their employees are smoking. Had prolly 8-10 packages in last couple years where some stuff is missing . 2 packages were empty . Heavy stuff seems to really get abused.
So they can delay someone's mail from arriving even further? I've actually received the same letter that we marked " not at this address" when it was clearly mailed to a different address than mine. So, there's that level of incompetence going on here.