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Omg! Amazon driver just tried to come into my house!!!

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Ilovemychocolate · 11/10/2025 17:50

So I’m sat at home, on my own, reading.
Suddenly my front door is VERY forcibly trying to be opened, it made a huge racket and I immediately thought someone was trying to break in!
The door wasn’t locked, but thankfully I have a child safety latch on the door, which I always use.
I go to the door and can see through the glass it’s an Amazon delivery man.
I open the door, and ask what the hell he is doing, trying to get into my house.
He replies he does it all the time, and it’s my fault as my settings on Amazon say front door/porch.
I am fuming at this point, and tell him it’s totally unacceptable, I’m at home alone, and never have I had someone try to enter my house before to deliver a parcel!
After a few more choice words from me, he gives me the parcel and says he will be reporting ME!
Obviously I immediately reported it to Amazon, who are taking it very seriously.
As I said to them, I’m an assertive person who can stand up for themselves, what if the homeowner had been someone more vulnerable?
So am I being unreasonable to expect that delivery men DONT try to access your property?!

OP posts:
DreamyTealGuide · 11/10/2025 22:28

The wine is an excellent idea OP, but try not to over do it! 🍷

😂😂

MyCrushWithEyeliner · 11/10/2025 22:27

BunnyLake · 11/10/2025 19:11

Mine says front door/porch but the porch is quite clearly just a wooden type canopy over the top of the front door and the front door is very clearly the front door. Not once in 15 years has a delivery driver tried to get into my house, they know the instruction means to leave it by the front door. He should have knocked on the door or rang the doorbell.

Same. I’d be freaked out if someone was trying to open the front door.

Xenia · 11/10/2025 22:24

Mine is always locked even if we are in. Amazon I don't think give an option in our case of leaving post and parcels in the metal box by door or on step (we have no letter box) and I have never had a driver trying to get in. They usually ring the bell andin 30 seconds I have the door opened

LancashireButterPie · 11/10/2025 22:23

I don't understand why you've been given such a hard time tonight OP. This would also have disturbed me, particularly in view of the fact that you are a childminder.
No one suspected that Wayne Cousins (friendly local copper on the surface of it) would be capable of murder but it happened.
You did well to report it.

Ilovemychocolate · 11/10/2025 22:22

Ttcgirl89 · 11/10/2025 22:02

When I was heavily pregnant I had a very large box of nappies delivered from Amazon. Delivery man knocked on the door, I opened it and he apologised that he wasn’t allowed to cross the front door threshold to put the nappies inside the house which was totally fine and reasonable to me and he just left them outside the front door (was too heavy for me to take them). So I’m not surprised Amazon is taking it seriously.

They are, thankfully.
Unlike a lot of posters on this thread!

OP posts:
Ireallycantthinkofagoodone · 11/10/2025 22:22

Ilovemychocolate · 11/10/2025 21:41

You clearly haven’t
I had a latch on, which is why he couldn’t get in.
The latch is always on, I’m a childminder so do it automatically.
No idea why you are being so aggressive?
Also if you have read my posts, you will see my delivery instructions are to leave outside the front door, if I’m not in.
Which I was.
Which he would have known if he had bothered to knock on the door.
But all of this is completely besides the point of the post, which is that he so aggressively tried to open the door that I thought someone was trying to break in, and obviously I was not aware that it was an Amazon delivery guy.
Please for one second try to put yourself in my shoes, a woman home alone, quietly reading, and suddenly a barrage on her front door.
That wouldn’t have frightened you and upset you?
Because if not, you are a braver woman than me!

Actually, you should check back, because your settings did not say outside the front door, they said ‘front door/porch’.

And I would have been fine, thanks, because I know when I have ordered something from Amazon, and I read the emails that tell me when to expect delivery of said order.

Oh, and I always lock my door, as that is the purpose of a lock - to stop people from attempting to enter, unless invited. It’s what the police advise.

Ilovemychocolate · 11/10/2025 22:20

DreamyTealGuide · 11/10/2025 21:52

I don't know why you are fixated with this LATCH issue, you are funny.

Reminds me of the snap and farted poster - who was not funny, but for her indignation and sense of self-importance.

No no, you are hilarious.
Really I insist, you absolutely are.
Another woman putting a woman down for feeling intimidated in her own home?
Thats hilarious.
Own it!

OP posts:
Ilovemychocolate · 11/10/2025 22:17

CherryBlossom321 · 11/10/2025 21:59

Delivery man tries door, believing he is following delivery instructions. Owner of house opens door and is apparently flustered and furious, offering a few “choice words”. Man explains that he is following delivery instructions. Home owner contacts retailer to complain. Home owner also asks on an open forum if she is being unreasonable. Members on forum offer a range of opinions, of course including ones in which they disagree. Home owner continues to post capital lettered, exclamation marked responses to those who disagree. She describes delivery man as “antagonistic” and “aggressive” but only following increased number of those who disagree.

The wine is an excellent idea OP, but try not to over do it! 🍷

Delivery man tries door, despite instructions requesting that if owner is not in, items to be left outside door.
Owner is in, delivery man just didn’t bother knocking on door.
Wine is not the problem here.
Your reading and comprehension skills however?
Questionable.

OP posts:
UneFoisAuChalet · 11/10/2025 22:03

Ireallycantthinkofagoodone · 11/10/2025 20:34

Perhaps you should read your OWN original post, where YOU said ‘front door/porch’ NOT outside front door. And for goodness sake, lock your front door. What is the point of NOT locking it?

This.

CinnamonBuns67 · 11/10/2025 22:02

Yanbu. If they are there to deliver a parcel they should knock. No answer? Leave and try again another time if no safe place. You just don't access someone's property without permission. Hope he gets sacked for that as he's gone way over the line.

Ttcgirl89 · 11/10/2025 22:02

When I was heavily pregnant I had a very large box of nappies delivered from Amazon. Delivery man knocked on the door, I opened it and he apologised that he wasn’t allowed to cross the front door threshold to put the nappies inside the house which was totally fine and reasonable to me and he just left them outside the front door (was too heavy for me to take them). So I’m not surprised Amazon is taking it seriously.

CherryBlossom321 · 11/10/2025 21:59

Delivery man tries door, believing he is following delivery instructions. Owner of house opens door and is apparently flustered and furious, offering a few “choice words”. Man explains that he is following delivery instructions. Home owner contacts retailer to complain. Home owner also asks on an open forum if she is being unreasonable. Members on forum offer a range of opinions, of course including ones in which they disagree. Home owner continues to post capital lettered, exclamation marked responses to those who disagree. She describes delivery man as “antagonistic” and “aggressive” but only following increased number of those who disagree.

The wine is an excellent idea OP, but try not to over do it! 🍷

EchoedSilence · 11/10/2025 21:58

Did you not track your parcel? You must have been expecting the delivery.

cgwdwnmi · 11/10/2025 21:57

In the OP you say that he said the instructions were front door/porch, then later on you say they were "outside the front door".
Which is it?

EchoedSilence · 11/10/2025 21:55

He thought you had a porch. He just wanted to deliver your parcel. No need for all the dramatics.

DreamyTealGuide · 11/10/2025 21:52

Ilovemychocolate · 11/10/2025 21:47

Are you drunk?

I don't know why you are fixated with this LATCH issue, you are funny.

Reminds me of the snap and farted poster - who was not funny, but for her indignation and sense of self-importance.

Ilovemychocolate · 11/10/2025 21:50

Stravaig · 11/10/2025 21:50

Please gods tell me there is a secret couriers blacklist. Amazon used to ban customers who were too much hassle, don't know if they still do.

😂

OP posts:
Ilovemychocolate · 11/10/2025 21:50

cgwdwnmi · 11/10/2025 21:46

So there's no problem then, is there?

If you are fine with a man aggressively trying to open your door, then being antagonistic when challenged about it, no problem at all.
Strangely enough I prefer to differ.
But you do you!

OP posts:
Stravaig · 11/10/2025 21:50

Please gods tell me there is a secret couriers blacklist. Amazon used to ban customers who were too much hassle, don't know if they still do.

Ilovemychocolate · 11/10/2025 21:47

DreamyTealGuide · 11/10/2025 21:46

I am feeling a bit upset that you will never accept to tell us why the LATCH is so important here 😂

he couldn't gain entry
ok.. but NOT because the door was locked, but because the LATCH was on. The difference is critical.

No one can come in either way, but it seems to change EVERYTHING. Fascinating 😂

Are you drunk?

OP posts:
Ilovemychocolate · 11/10/2025 21:46

DreamyTealGuide · 11/10/2025 21:38

Where did I miss that he was IN the home?

Where did I miss that he even knew the OP was a woman, or a woman alone? Where did I miss that he had no idea the home owner was anything else than a 6ft tall bouncer 😂

Yes, absolutely acceptable for a random man to try to open a random door having no idea who may be inside their own home, quietly minding their own business.

OP posts:
DreamyTealGuide · 11/10/2025 21:46

Ilovemychocolate · 11/10/2025 21:43

Oh FFS
He couldn’t gain entry because the latch was on.
READ THE POST!

I am feeling a bit upset that you will never accept to tell us why the LATCH is so important here 😂

he couldn't gain entry
ok.. but NOT because the door was locked, but because the LATCH was on. The difference is critical.

No one can come in either way, but it seems to change EVERYTHING. Fascinating 😂

cgwdwnmi · 11/10/2025 21:46

Ilovemychocolate · 11/10/2025 21:44

Really?
Well it stops my childminded children getting out and it stopped him getting him.
So pretty effective I’d say.

So there's no problem then, is there?

cgwdwnmi · 11/10/2025 21:45

Ilovemychocolate · 11/10/2025 21:43

Oh FFS
He couldn’t gain entry because the latch was on.
READ THE POST!

So there's no problem then. He tried the door. Couldn't get in. The end.

Datafan55 · 11/10/2025 21:45

DreamyTealGuide · 11/10/2025 21:38

Where did I miss that he was IN the home?

Where did I miss that he even knew the OP was a woman, or a woman alone? Where did I miss that he had no idea the home owner was anything else than a 6ft tall bouncer 😂

Did I say he was in there? i did not.
I said A woman with a strange man in her home is vulnerable.
This isn't rocket science.

Where did I miss that he even knew the OP was a woman
Yeah I'm guessing those parcel labels with names and addresses on aren't any help at all.

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