I don’t believe it’s a policy change either. It sounds more like a policy enforcement to me.
Maybe it’s just that I’ve never lived in an place where people keep their doors unlocked, but I’d personally be surprised if this was actually something the USPS allowed in the first place.
I ask my mail carrier to leave my packages in the garage and haven’t had a problem. As a matter of fact, he just did it yesterday. I don’t think such a policy as described in the OP exists.
If you’d prefer to wait until it’s dark to go outside and fall over, that’s up to you. In the meantime, take a box cutter and go outside and cut yourself out a can of Chow Mein. You can lift that up the steps right?
Or just keep complainin’ and starvin’. Whatever.
Twice. Always.
Does it require that they open the closed garage door and put the package inside? Maybe with Stand Your Ground and the like, they don’t want their mail carriers opening people’s doors to put packages inside the house. Minimize the risk of mistaken identity…?