Have you ever had DPD lie that they "attempted" delivery?

Long story short I'm not too pleased with DPD today. I was expecting a delivery today for a high value item (2.5k laptop) from Currys which unfortunately never happened. I paid for an evening delivery slot as well so that I could ensure that I was at the property to take delivery of the item. I could see from the tracking that the driver was running late but didn't think much of it until I had a notification to say that delivery was attempted alongside a blank delivery photo. Currys have been no help what so ever and are saying that delivery will now be be attempted tomorrow completely missing the point. Anyone else had a similar experience? Has the driver actually ran out of time or was the item in question stolen? TIA