To get irrationally irritated at deliveries - I know IBU!

Um not sure how you can get irritated by this. You ordered it and it has to be delivered. What IS annoying is them ringing the bell then leaving it on the doorstep. Either wait for me to answer or put it in the designated safe space (which is not behind the bins Amazon!). Do not ring the bell have me rush downstairs to noone. Or rush downstairs to nothing at all.
But you are being unreasonable to not want to answer the door at all for something you asked (and doubly unreasonable if you booked a time slot too).

It’s the over-reliance on deliveries to the door that really annoys me. So much extra traffic on the roads and car/van pollution, packaging … It’s unreasonable. I think we’ve become extremely lazy and feeble to the great cost of the planet and the state of the roads. And now it even seems too much to answer your own door to the stuff you’ve ordered?! Wow. it makes me think of how the less we do, the less we can do.

That’s not a genuine reason when the doorbell does work and can be heard outside the house, though. Unless you’re saying it’s just too much faff to do it once and allow information to filter from your ears to your brain to your finger. Which makes you annoying when you appear on my doorstep.

Why not arrange to have your parcels dropped at click and collect and get them there when you go shopping ?

I'm very much more irritated at not getting deliveries. Take that for example - 8.32 I get an email saying my parcel will be delivered between 8.30 and 10.30. Just now I've received another email apologising that they haven't been able to deliver today.

Imo that's much more irritating than actually getting the item you've ordered.

So why not leave a note saying " in meeting leave on doorstep" get a laminated one that you can reuse

That I can answer. Half of people's bloody doorbells don't work so waiting time ringing then having to knock

Seeing as parcel couriers only get about 40-50p a parcel delivered they are not going to have time for that

Yes I do! I know it's ridiculous because it's stuff I've ordered!
I also know delivery drivers have a difficult job for crappy money so this is very much lighthearted but...

The worst is when they knock and I'm in a work call or in the middle of something so I think ah they'll just leave it on the step. Then they knock again so I leave what I'm doing and go to the door to find the parcel on the step and the driver getting back in the van!!!!

Our postman also has the loudest knock ever and I've told him a few times to just leave stuff on the step if I don't answer.

When I WFH my office is in the loft so 2 flights of stairs to run down 😂

It annoys me when they lean on the doorbell, hammer on the door and then leave the parcel in the porch before I’ve got to the door anyway. If you’re going to do that, just ring the bell once and fuck off.

Yes and no - I once did a massive order of baby stuff (about 10 items) from the same retailer, and it showed up in 8 deliveries over 2 days. I was going mad by the end of it!! A can would show up with one babygro, then an hour later another van with a single dummy etc. It was during working days as well so my husband was cracking up too lol and the dog was going absolutely bonkers with all the vans. Absolute chaos!

I keep my conservatory door unlocked for this exact reason. I made friendly with my local DPD driver and she lets herself in, has a smooch with the dog and leaves the parcels. Not everyone's cup of tea, I know but it works better for me. Other companies just leave parcels by the door and don't even bother to knock.

Don’t order deliveries then.

No I get excited that my stuff is here.

I get where you are coming from. I used to hover as I didn't want the doorbell to wake the baby. However it is so much easier than going in person! I have memories of doing the weekly supermarket shop with my mum and she still had to put it all away! I don't mind too much now, now you can track most deliveries and know when they are coming.

You need a designated safe space. My postie just leaves it there and I pick it up when I'm not in a zoom call

Stop ordering stuff?

I mean, it's very much a first world problem, isn't it? 😂

What would you like to happen instead?