leaving deliveries outside - ok in your area?

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Walking home last night I passed quite a few amazon/similar boxes left on people's front paths. And pondered that where I live that's absolutely fine.

It's the kind of place where people do leave their front/back doors open. The window open for the cat. A key under the doormat for tradespeople etc etc.

Yes, you could do that here. My DH (by accident), recently left his car window down, and there was a big bag on the seat. No one took anything. If people find things here it would be placed on the Town FB page. I'm in an affluent town in Scotland.

In my old town - yes. Current city - no.

We happily ask for packages to be left in our open porch. There's a driveway between our porch and the footpath. If our door was nearer the street so someone could subtly pick it up while they walked by, I probably wouldn't risk it.

Yes, frequently have parcels left on door step - I'm zone 2 London. I've also left my bike outside my front gate on quite a few occasions and only remembered half an hour later and it's never been taken. We live on an estate though, so not right on the road.

Friends in the 'posher' houses down the road have been broken into numerous times, had bike lockers broken into etc, so I think we're lucky

I’ve had multiple parcels go missing from my door step

Fine here in Wales. We have a long drive and don’t live on a road though!

Fine here too. I feel fortunate for that. The local town would be another matter though.

I'm on a busy road with lots of passers by in zone 4 London and things get left all the time!

No, I wouldn’t. We have a local person who regularly goes round trying car doors. Any car left unlocked will have something nicked. Parcels would be visible from the road, unless they were tiny, in which case, they could be posted.

I wouldn't, but I wouldn't anywhere. Where I live has a bad reputation, somewhat unfairly I feel. Some years ago our front window was poorly boarded up after we had to break it, anyone could have just pushed it and climbed in but for ~6 months nobody did. But our neighbours got burgled from the back.

I was thinking about this yesterday as I got back from school run to find a parcel on my doorstep. Parcels are often left on driveways/doorsteps here without a problem

Yes.
Altho being from pretty rough London and outer London burroughs I’m not used to it.

I wouldn’t purposely instruct couriers to leave parcels on my doorstep, although that has happened and the parcels have always still been there thankfully. Also mis-sent parcels have also been success retrieved.

DH has also accidentally left the car unlocked (key left in the car) and it’s been all fine (touch wood).

We used to live in South East London and I wouldn't have told a courier to leave something on our doorstep in a million years. Luckily all the couriers knew to leave things in less obvious places lob them over the fence and hope they weren't fragile

Where we live now (home counties market town) it's fine. We have a Ring doorbell and on Saturday night DH was settling the baby when his takeaway arrived early. I was out but asked the courier to leave it on the doorstep and I texted DH to let him know it was there. DH was livid at the prospect someone might have stolen his naan bread but acknowledged that the odds of it happening were close to zero.