DOES ONLINE SHOPPING CREATE A DELIVERY NIGHTMARE?

IT might be the season to be jolly, but as someone who has worked from home for a few years, it can also make you feel like a parcel service (“Shame about the late delivery though”, December 3).

People who don’t know what I mean just need to wait for the doorbell to start going with drivers asking you to take items for people who aren’t in, even if they live at the other end of the street.

Last year I was getting four or five a day and then people calling to collect them. I couldn’t get any work done. John Fletcher, Watford, Herts

ONLINE shopping can be a pain when things arrive late or you aren’t in when they do arrive at your door.

But is that really a hardship at this time of year? After all, isn’t Christmas all about talking to your neighbours and doing kind things for others, even if you have to main social distancing?

I would much rather have to take a few parcels in for neighbours and knock on a few doors to get mine than battle through the traffic and the idiots who have descended on our high streets this week.

Jessica Peters,