AIBU to complain after Amazon opened the door and my cat escaped?

Neither should OP leave her door unlocked and go to work, that should NEVER happen either.

Ad I said previously, maybe she also left the door open….. she’s prone to error.

Oh give over! It’s not!!

Does trespass include levitation? Because he didn’t set foot into the property, just hovered a hand over to place the parcel on the floor!

if it was Amazon they were in the wrong. They can’t take responsibility for what goes on in your house and I know this is far fetched but it could have been a child than ran out. I am anti cat, by the way, but no way should be be letting anything out of your house by opening a door into the actual house.

It literally isn’t.

It literally isn't "breaking and entering" as that isn't a thing in England (assuming OP is in England). It would be burglary or trespass. I don't think OP has suggested that anything was taken, so that rules out burglary. So yes, it's trespass, but I imagine hard to prove that the door was not ajar as well as unlocked and that the driver did more than stand on the outside and put the parcel inside.

@Itsanewdawnitsanewdayitsanewlife4me unless the Amazon driver had intent to commit a crime it is not breaking and entering, they need intent

It is literally breaking and entering. It doesnt matter than he was leaving a package as they leave them outside all the time. Unless she gave him a key to the door or literally said on the order 'feel free to open the door and put parcel inside if i am not home' on the order then he had NO right to open the door to her property.

@Witchonenowbob

She adamant that she shut but didn’t lock the door, I can’t be as sure as she is, she may not have even shut it properly, therefore the driver just placed it inside.

I do think people have a point when they raise this possibility. It's possible that she didn't fully close the door and that it was ajar when the driver showed up.

It is not making a mistake for a delivery driver to oen the door to someone's house. That should NEVER happen.

Maybe she should understand then that to err is human!

She’s repeatedly said her errors was irrelevant, which it wasn’t, because the second error of the driver wouldn’t have happened had she not left her door unlocked. The driver was trying to ensure the safety of the package, instead of leaving it outside.

She won’t get anywhere other than a platitude “of further training should be given”.

She adamant that she shut but didn’t lock the door, I can’t be as sure as she is, she may not have even shut it properly, therefore the driver just placed it inside.

@Witchonenowbob

Fair enough. I don't necessarily think that the OP should complain about this, but I also don't think she's unreasonable to be taken aback and a bit bothered over it.

My point was, quite a few people seemed to be under the impression that OP needed to be told to lock her door (as though she makes a habit of deliberately leaving it unlocked) when she doesn't need to be told this, she's aware that doors should be locked, she just forgot to do it on this one occasion.

And the delivery driver simply made a mistake and delivered her parcel safely inside her house.

But he didn’t go in your house. He opened an unlocked external door and popped a package inside. Something many people prefer.
The cat escaping was unfortunate. But it came back. No harm, no foul. And you have your package. Brilliant.
I really really don’t see the point of this thread if you just want to shoot anyone down who doesn’t agree that this needed reporting. Really pointless.

Well now you know your cat comes back maybe he could be an indoor/outdoor cat?

Unless you live on a very busy road.

Is it possible you accidentally didn’t close the door properly and it blew open?

That’s disgusting !! I would hundred percent complain!!

So the cat isn't allowed outside usually? If he is I don't really see that any harm was done. Even if he doesn't usually go out the back he knows where his own house is.

Well then, complaining about what somebody did as a result of her mistake is unreasonable.

How would the delivery driver know it hadn't been left unlocked deliberately?

Amazon will be paying them the absolute minimum and kicking up a fuss if they spend more than thirty seconds delivering the thing.

Not sure if I’ve missed this but did he put the parcel just inside the door did he put it somewhere that he couldn’t have reached without actually walking into your house? I don’t think I’d be as bothered if he just opened the door and chucked it in rather than actually setting foot inside your house. Still not great though given that your cat escaped! Id also have to be 100% certain that in handy left the door open myself before I’d lodge a complaint.

once had a delivery driver open the side gate to leave a parcel behind it (metal bar type gate so parcel still visible on the other side!) and didn’t close it properly so the dog got out!

This. The door might not have been properly held on the catch and the cat managed to hook it open or the wind caught it as a pp suggested?

Not everyone has a porch and certainly not by the back door. My parent put their porch as a safe place but they can leave it open and lock the door from the porch into the main house.

My front door leads directly into my hall and stairs. My back door leads directly into my kitchen.

No delivery driver should be opening someone's front or back door without explicit permission.

We even had an Amazon driver leave our parcel inside next door neighbour's house! Houses are attached, NDN's door at the back, ours at the front. It was raining cats and dogs, it was easier/quicker to get to the back. NDN brought the parcel round to us, quite bemused by the fact that Amazon driver had obviously opened her door and put the parcel inside, instead of knocking and handing the parcel over, even if he had mixed up the house numbers/got lost. The house does not have a porch.
Amazon definitely need to provide better training.