You can try that.
However, if Yodel delivered the item to the buyer's safe place then they are unlikely to be helpful unless you can somehow prove that they were negligent.
Generally, in my experience, carriers do not accept responsibility for doorstep thefts.
"There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.”
Søren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
