Over here in The Netherlands, pickup points are common (my local groceries store is one), you can choose your delivery time (also in the evening) and they will deliver it to a neighbor when I'm not home.
Why not avoid this whole problem with any of these options?
Carriers offload responsibility by allowing the sender or receiver to opt-out of signature/package acceptance, so why would they care?
Just one data point, but I've been having packages delivered to my home my entire life and never had a single one go missing. Seems like a really high cost to prevent something unlikely.
On the other hand, I had never had a home or vehicle broken into until someone smashed my car window last night at the movie theater. So, there's a first time for everything.
If you're not in they try and leave the package with a neighbour. If that doesn't work, they'll try again, and if you're not there again, try for for a neighbour again. If that fails for a second time, they leave it at a nearby depot for you to pick it up.
I've never heard of a package being stolen here in the UK.
Overseas viewer: "This literally never happens here. Try solution (a), (b), or maybe (c) and see if that helps?"
America: "Yep there is no solution in the entire universe"
Substitute "package theft" for: Gun crime / public healthcare / public education / insert social issue here
The package theft "solutions" proposed really are insanely inconvenient and unworkable* in most suburban environments. I've seen all of the reasons listed many places here, so I won't bother rehashing them. If I'm at work on Tuesday, for example, a redelivery attempt on Wednesday doesn't really help, does it?
* unworkable in the sense that they're less efficient than the alternative of just allowing the rare package theft to occur
Assuming your employer allows it, it's convenient to have packages sent to work, AND if you drove a personal car to work, it's easy to drive your own package home. This equation gets flipped if you use transit or live in a multi-unit building where it might get easier to just hold it "downstairs".
In Bristol, I've known a few people have packages stolen from porches or from under recycling boxes/bins, so it definitely does happen. My parents found someone in their hedge a few months ago trying to get one of their parcels.
I've not shipped to myself using an Amazon locker since I've never had an issue with package theft, but if a package is worth more than $500 or $1000 I'll often have it sent to my office, which I suspect is what most people do if possible.
I think Europe would have been a lot cooler if I had moved from the US straight there instead of coming from Japan :/
US Postal Service staff usually do ring the doorbell when leaving packages, and, if nobody answers, they will make an effort to leave it in a concealed location if that's possible.
UPS and FedEx people in our area typically leave it by the door without ringing the doorbell, but usually do still try to conceal the package.
Amazon delivery people typically leave it out in the yard, next to the sidewalk.
I'm guessing the difference has a lot to do with the deliveries-to-time ratio that each company's drivers get.
Choosing when they deliver either costs money (when you can choose during checkout), or you have to create an account and agree to some funny terms (I'd happily save them the trip, but they won't allow me to tell them without agreeing to a whole litany of things).