Unless your mailman has climbed up to your house before for large packages, you will likely have to pick it up at the post office with your little orange card. I'd rather have that happen that nicotine and whatnot out in the elements, although probably better winter than summer, I guess.
My mailman leaves large packages on my stoop if I'm not home. I don't recall giving permission, but I know all my neighbors and sometimes I think our subdivision is called "Wonderland" because of all the guns in the houses.... Nothing bad ever happens here, other than the occasional police goon squad coming to collect a hitman. But you know, they rarely strike where they sleep, unless threatened. LOL.
Anna