Neighbour’s 6am Delivery

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Not on good terms with my neighbours. They’ve seriously ruined my enjoyment of the property for the past 3 years. Think busybody couple who is home all day with nothing else to do. I’m so tired!!! Ugh

They’ve recently got into the habit of ordering their food deliveries for bang on 6am every Sunday. It’s so insensitive as we’re old mid terrace (with poor soundproofing), I work nights and so does the woman on the other side of them. They’ve known this for a while but still bash about before 7am waking us all up. I wouldn’t mind if they had things to do during the day but they literally don’t leave the house other than to walk to dog or fret over the ‘state’ of my (freshly cut) grass. Don’t ask, they have a weird relationship with my gardens Me and the other night-shift neighbour have thought about writing a joint letter for them. I think shopping deliveries shouldn’t be allowed before 7am on weekends. Not sure how supermarkets are getting away with it in built up residential areas when it’s outside social hours. The noise of the fridge buzzing and the slamming of the doors/crates came straight through my earplugs! Not to mention the delivery guy shouting like the customer’s at the other end of a football pitch! But yeah I’ll have to survive with an hours sleep, with 2 kids under 5 just because Brenda wanted her cabbage and wine at 6am (that’s not her name just making it lighthearted)

But how do they know that that particular hour is so important for your sleep? If I knew my neighbour got in at 5, I’d assume a 6am delivery was better than 11 unless they told me otherwise.

If the delivery comes at 6, slip out at ten to and stick a note on their door

ATTENTION MORRISON’S DRIVER
ORDER CANCELED DUE TO UNFORESEEN CIRCUMSTANCES
DO NOT KNOCK
THANK YOU

I wonder if you wake them up when you come in at 5am?

You have my condolences OP. My neighbours are keen cyclists, every Saturday and Sunday they have friends come round about 7am and spend a few hours doing things loudly to their bikes in the back garden. I would love a lie-in one weekend 😭

For people working more conventional hours, though, or evenings, the 6am or 10pm delivery slots are useful. It's not the slots as such but the noise that's the problem. Complain to Morrison's and ask them to tell the delivery drivers working that route that they need to hush up. Speak to your neighbours and likewise ask them to be quieter when getting the delivery in.

Being Devil’s Advocate, could it be that it’s the only slot available when they’ll be in? In the last couple of months, I have found supermarket delivery slots to be like goldust. I used to be able to get an after work weekday, or Sunday evening slot with less than 48 hrs notice. Now it’s become 5-6 days notice.

We have a neighbour who runs a business from home and they have a private company call weekly to empty the bins that they use for business waste. Most weeks it's emptied between 6.45 and 7am but on occasions we get this bin lorry on our small and very quiet cul de sac at 5.30am. It's not just the noise of the bins being emptied but the beeping as the lorry reverses.

It’s a difficult one really because they shouldn’t be living as if they’re in a detached house, but then obviously I have to put up with so much because I bought a terrace. Bang on 7am wouldn’t be an issue to me, I’m just going by the 7-11 noise laws. They’ve been doing it for quite a while and our town is fairly small so all the delivery slots are usually available. The worst part is the supermarket is literally 5 mins away and they have a car! I’d offer to pay the extra £2 delivery for them if it meant I wasn’t getting woken at 6am

That's incredibly antisocial. Noise hours are from 7 or 8 under most councils. Not sure if that covers it but they should at least wait til then, are they absolutely unable to wait an hour or two?!

Their delivery may wake you up but do you wake them up when you come home from working nights?

Your neighbours have the right to have their delivery when they want. You need to complain to the supermarket that their specific delivery driver makes too much noise.

Slots don't start until 7am weekdays and 8am weekends here, still early though. My neighbour mows grass at 8am and I thought that was weird. The problem is that some people have a different day schedule and it's light at 6am.

I would never complain though as both my DD's and my other next door neighbours dd do go clubbing, sometimes to the same place and they wake up the street being "quiet" or at least me! Not every week though