ebay's new performance standard come into effect on the 20th of Feb and part of that is their late delivery rate tracking, so I looked what my rating will be and the report that goes with the late delivery rate.
I have one that is marked as late by the Carrier so I looked at which one it was and it was sent the day the customer order it Royal mail special delivery, the tracking shows they tried to deliver it but no one answered the door. The next day the customer collected it from the sorting office.
So if the customer not being home when the courier tries to deliver is going to be counted as late then I'm left thinking that it would be better to not put the tracking number into ebay until after the item has been delivered and not at all if the customer missed them and just let them ask the customer if it got there on time.