Neville- unless you are doing an express next day delivery, it’s sometimes very hard to predict when something you order will arrive. if you choose the free shipping option, then you are usually given a range of several days for expected delivery, or you are told they will deliver by certain date. sometimes they surprise you and deliver earlier than the expected date. sometimes your order is broken up into different shipments that arrive on different days. the delivery person is probably not Jewish, and you are not asking them to deliver on shabbos. Wouldn’t it be similar to hiring a goy to do some service for you (say fix your computer), as I remember the halacha, if they decided to do the work on shabbos, that is their choice, it is not a problem, as long as they could have theoretically done the work a different time. Meaning, you could not bring in your computer Fri afternoon and expect it back Sun morning, but if you brought it to the store on Wed, and they could have done it Thurs or Fri, but chose to do it on Shabbos, that is ok.
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