Yodel driver opened my front door

and it turns out, I was not unreasonable. Sorry that hurts some of you who thinks I should have had an epiphany thanks to your comments.

Unreasonable to the bitter end.

And you've cost that poor driver his job (which you sound unreasonably pleased about) during a cost of living crisis.

So you left the front door unlocked whilst you were in the bath because you don't expect people to open it without an invitation?

Unfortunately people who intend to steal from you or hurt you don't give a fuck about social conventions or the law so you were lucky it was just a delivery driver.

Rather than accept that you were shocked and treat the experience as a wake up call you have lost this man his job.

Well done.

Poor driver. I work for RM and have accidentally opened front doors that I had assumed were porch doors lots of times. Hope you are happy they have now lost their job.

The moral of this story is that if you don't like strangers letting themselves into your house, lock the door because apparently large swathes of the community not only think this is acceptable but desirable.

No, the moral of the story is any householder who leaves their front door unlocked when they are out of sight for a period of time in the bath (and out of hearing if under the shower) and in particular naked and hence vulnerable is rather naive and one might say asking for trouble.

You can say yabu without being unkind.

If you only want kind messages in agreement don't ask people AIBU....you apparently alrthink you are not.

Great, I am sure you are delighted that some poor fucker will get a bollicking for trying to deliver your mail safely and you closing the door in his face so he had no other option than to pick up the parcel and walk away. I hope the next parcel they leave is in your bin on bin day.

I have parcels delivered almost daily and I've never seen anything like this
The courier shouldn't have taken the parcel back if he heard to say " hang on"
I shout out as I'm disabled so they know I'm in, they often take Parcel and leave just outside my door then
He certainly shouldn't have just walked in

A lot of people said YANBU too, I think it about 50/50ish in the voting at the moment (and looking at the comments I would say people feel more strongly about you leaving your door unlocked than the situation with the delivery...).

For what it's worth, I think it's bonkers that the delivery man opened your front door to leave a parcel, and the fact that it wasn't locked is completely irrelevant - he shouldn't have tried in the first place.

The options for deliveries are clearly stated when you track your parcel: 1) you're at home, 2) deliver to neighbour or safe place. I have never heard or seen 3) open my front door if I don't answer, for an obvious safety reason!

Happens all the time where I live (Devon). Better that than leaving parcels out in the rain in my view.

How come you're so laid back about him retrieving the parcel he'd just delivered?

It is alarming he opened your front door - but I would never leave my front door unlocked if I was taking a bath or shower.

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Did you mean prostate?
(not being a pedant, just laughing at this!)

I run night classes for burglars @WillowCraft . - not really😉

If the key is in the lock, a legitimate visitor, with their key, will not be able to get their key in situ from the outside.
Burglars come equipped with glass cutters, hooks, fishing rods and all manner of stuff to get access to the key in the lock via cutting hole in glass, using hook and hands through letter box etc.

I feel these drivers are damned if they do, damned if they don't.

If the parcel is left outside, they are open to complaints of "I was inside the house, why did he leave it outside - now it's drenched!"

If the door is open here, drivers will drop the parcel into the hall, which I appreciate.

No, YANBU at all, this is really inappropriate and a complete violation, assuming it wasnt in your delivery instructions he trespassed into your property without permission.

I'd be very angry if this happened to me, especially as you were only in a towel and vulnerable (and considering you may well have been in even more of a state of undress in your own home when he entered, which obviously you're well within your rights to be!) I do tend to keep my doors locked even when I'm home but wouldn't expect a delivery person to just wander in regardless. I would report this so it doesn't happen again.

How can burglars get in but no one else then?

Have you actually read any of the OP's replies? She has said that she was wrong lots of times! I feel you should apologise for your rather rude post.

I second this.

I similarly learnt when a driver opened the door and my puppy nearly escaped. To be fair, he probably thought it was a porch, but it's my boot/utility room.

We live rurally and with a large family, at least one door is often left unlocked by mistake. Children leave and return from front door for the school bus, adults leave from boot/ utility room door to walk dogs twice-daily or get to car on driveway. I check doors several times a day as I pass by and especially when alone.

OP you haven't laid out prostate and flagellated yourself sufficiently for some posters

Sometimes I think I must be missing a bit of brain. In the OP's circumstances, I would have just said "Thank you!" and carried on with my day!

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Anyway @Neverwatchedgameofthrones lesson learned!!! No harm done!!!

Now go and watch Game of Thrones!