to think I should at the very least be warned before presents arrive for my children - unwrapped?!

[itsanewday]

I have a pile of present wrapping to do - don't we all? I get them wrapped, and if necessary, packed up and posted, on time. How is it ok for someone to send my child a present direct from Amazon, not gift-wrapped, and without first asking me if I'd mind wrapping it, or at least telling me it's on its way? Maybe next year I'll save myself a bit of time and get all friends and relations to do their own wrapping.
I know, I'm being a grumpy cow, but to me it's common courtesy.

YABU. It will take you 3 mins to wrap it.

Yeah it's careless & a bit thoughtless. I think you have to put on your best Saccharine Persona and sweetly ask them to send it Gift Wrapped next time as you are impossibly too narked off pathetic to find time to wrap it with everythine else you have on.

I agree in a way; wrapping does take a long time when you've got lots of presents to do. But the people who sent them were probably thinking in terms of one extra present to wrap, they won't have counted on others doing the same thing.

Personally I always try to have stuff delivered to me first, then wrap it and send it on. But the snow has possibly scuppered a lot of people's Christmas shopping plans this year.

There is a thread about this already. You are being childish and churlish

I can't wrap anything in 3 minutes, I must have terrible technique?! . To get out the bits I need and then actually wrap and then sneakily put it all away, without DC noticing anything, takes min. 15-20 minutes per item.

YABVU
Amazon gift wrapping is ridiculously expensive. Would you have preferred it if the sender had bought a cheap, crappy present so they could factor in the cost of gift wrapping?

My sister and I always Amazon presents to each other and we both have to wrap presents up. It's no big deal.

Would you really rather they paid for it to be wrapped?

It takes you 15-20 minutes per item? Why? Why?

Don't be so ungrateful. Why have something sent free from Amazon to wrap it and then re-post it, hence paying postage and risking items not getting to their destination because of weather? Just wrap it woman. YABU!

No, I would have preferred it if the sender had dropped me an email and said "I have ordered x and it will be coming straight to you - sorry to be a pain, but would you mind wrapping it for me?"

If you have a Card Factory near you then they do gift bags very cheap - I keep 'in stock' ones of various sizes for just this kind of thing.

YABU, Wrappings the best bit of Christmas to me.I even do my neighbours for them.

Amazon paper is also hideous.

Good Lord, try not to sound ungrateful. 'Tis the season and all that.

I do realise that if you've got loads to do it may seem like just one more thing, but really.

I'm still waiting for an amazon order I place on 4th December so I think you should be thankful the item got to you.

AND you say your sister and you do it to each other so who loses? No-one. You do her wrapping, she does yours. Why should I do my own and everybody elses?

Gift bags, what a great idea. My 99p shop does brilliant one.

If it is from Amazon the chances are it will be a very easy shape to wrap. Is it a book, DVD or something? So as others have said it shouldn't take long.

And anyway YABVU to complain about an Amazon present arriving in any state when it seems half the rest of the population (me included) would be more then happy for their Amazon orders to arrive at all!

YABU. Why do they need to be wrapped? Why are they not still in the parcel wrapping?

Yep, well, I placed an order in November and not only did it not arrive, it was returned to sender and refunded, they said the address was incorrect but it wasn't. So yes, I am grateful it arrived. It would have been courteous to have had warning.

exactly!!! if I had known it was coming, I wouldn't have taken it out of its box!!!

Put it back into the box?

How on earth does it take you 15-20 mins to wrap a book?

YANBU - a bit of courtesy to let you know wouldn't have killed them!

itsanewday
"AND you say your sister and you do it to each other so who loses? No-one. You do her wrapping, she does yours. Why should I do my own and everybody elses?"

No, that was me. We stick to an agreed budget for Christmas presents and, if we had the gifts wrapped, it would mean fewer and cheaper presents. It works fine for us.

Also, if the goods are incorrect you can report it and get it rectified straight away instead of after Christmas.

Maybe with all the snow they had been hoping to order the present to be sent to them and then wrap, but wanted to make sure they actually got to your DC for Xmas Day?

I think YANBU to think some warning might have been nice, but Amazon gift wrapping is v expensive and I would rather spend more on presents than £4 a time on wrapping. I have had things sent directly to DSIL/DB in the past, but I would always check it's ok first and text them to let them know when it had been dispatched. I think it is quite bad manners to do otherwise tbh.

I have done this and addressed the box to the kids, so I am hoping friend will let kids open the box and so no one needs to do any wrapping.

Surely if a package arrived just before Xmas you would have the sense not to open it in front of the kids?

Just sayin'