Cat,
Sending a package to UPS for shipping is like sending it to the Zoo. It will eventually get to the lion section and it will be destroyed.
I can see the UPS drive comming up the path with peanuts flying out of the box and leaving it on the outside of the front porch (as they do mine). As it sits there all day in the rain and wind you have peanut soup. Having a screened in porch (FL.) like I have, all the driver has to do is open the door and set it on the porch which is covered. Nope to difficult.