To think that if there is a doorbell, you should use it

[HumptyDumptyBumpty]

Bloody postman. Hammers on door. Rings bell. Hammers some more.
DD had just gone down for a nap, unwillingly, and i was upstairs finally having a wash (difficult morning) and now she is wide awake. I had to run down in my towel to answer the door.

Why hammer on the door with your fist? The doorbell is there for a reason. I can hear it anywhere in the house and it doesn't wake her.

I'm going to have to put a sign up on the door, aren't I? Which makes me look incredibly precious. FFS. I've asked him before not to do it,but he forgets/doesn't care.

There are delivery companies which tell you what day they are delivering and what time, you can even track them online to see where they are. Useful. I wish they were all like this, although my neighbour has things delivered by them all the time and still bugger off's out so they come knocking on my door

Sorry. What I'm trying to say is, they won't need to knock relentlessly for a minute as you should know they are there.

The interesting thing with us, is that our postman (we've known him for 18 years), meter readers, couriers/delivery drivers etc, actually do - sensibly - use the knocker on our door.

It's neighbours/friends (who I normally like, but in these circumstances I would call them utter fuckwits) who think that banging on the glass is acceptable. Why?

Cos they are muppets, Fru

I knock on my neighbours glass. They have a UPVC door, no knocker, no letterbox cover and no doorbell. Their bloody dog can hear the postman knock a house three doors away though

Yanbu!!!! I have this postman!!! So annoying!!

When I was childminding I had a laminated sheet I blue tacked onto the door.

It said 'sleeping children. Please only knock if urgent. If you do knock please knock quietly, I will hear you'

It worked! I just couldn't bear them waking 3 toddlers I had spent an hour winding down and getting into bed!

I stuck a 'please do not disturb, I'm working' note on my door. Bloody yapping dog neighbour still knocked it

Muppets they may well be, LadySybilL,

But actually I've developed a theory over the last few years. We live in an Inner London Borough. But the neighbours/friends who insist on rapping on the glass of the front door are all people who were brought up, or lived for a long period of time, in more suburban or rural areas, where the norm is to go to friend's back doors - hence no doorbells or knockers, and hence rapping on the glass!

Right cheesy I'm making a sign. You've inspired me.

Oh this gives me the rage. We have an obvious doorbell and people still hammer on the door. Why? Just why?

I don't trust modern wireless doorbells. Even when the little light comes on, you cannot be certain it has actually sounded inside, as it's frequently inaudible from outside.

Give me the doorbell which actually sounds a metal dome with a hammer any day, instead of the electronic twang!

I wish there was an option to have parcels and signed letters to the sorting office and then get a text saying it's ready for collection.