On 18/11/2020 14:45, JohnP wrote:
Do people check off the items one by one - or merely take the stuff and
later realise something is missing?

Accepted as a job lot. Assuming you are talking about supermarket
deliveries. They may substitute or omit items due to availability
depending on your choice but the packing list always shows exactly what
is there.

The only exception I have known is for the odd bottle of whisky to
escape from their system with its security tag still attached.

Other goods from Amazon are inside up to two other cardboard boxes with
a host of soft packing materials. Unless the outer packaging is badly
damaged and the contents are fragile I would generally accept as is.

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Regards,
Martin Brown