Delivery left in bin instead of per my instructions

[WanderingTrolley1]

I left instructions to leave a parcel, if no answer, over our back fence.

Return to find card stating parcel is in brown bin, to the side of the property. Anyone could have seen him place it there and taken it.

AIBU to be slightly miffed?

How do you all know to look in the bin for your parcel? Do they leave a note telling you it's in the bin?

Yes they normally put a card through the door to say where it is

The one parcel I had that was left in the bin was a food item. I was not impressed. Plus it was pure chance I got to it before the bin men.

Personally if the bin was on your property and not on the road ready to be emptied i think the bin is a safer/drier option than your garden.
I am lucky that my son's Grandma lives opposite so she is my alternative delivery address!

don't know WHY they do this. I had 1 parcels due....one arrived and the lady said "Did you get yersterdays? I brought it in the afternoon" and I said no and her face fell "Oh...it's in the recycling bin" THe stupid woman.

owlcapone I was teasing you rather than having a go, sorry if that was unclear.

The problem is that although bins are (sometimes) dry, they are also liable to be emptied into a council lorry. Also, if this becomes common, bins are going to be a good source of nice new stuff for thieves ...

What? Why does everyone get parcels left in their bin, that's gross! Surely paper wrapped packages would stink?

It quite possibly isn't a case of how do they know the bin won't be emptied as the fact they don't care, want rid of the parcel, any number of reasons.

Maybe a lockable box where the delivery person can open it to put stuff in but is then locked once closed. Leave the lid open and a note to say close when deposited a parcel.

One delivery guy left a parcel under my car but he did leave a note saying so.

I was forever complaining about parcels being left inside my food waste bin (YUK) to the extent that I had to print off & laminate a note which I taped to the bin lid.

This was Royal Mail

Smoke I have no idea! It's the worst idea in the world! I've certainly never asked for that to happen.

I once went mad at Yodel for saying they'd delivered when they hadn't. No note, nothing. Insisted a new item was redelivered from the company I was ordering from at no cost to myself.

Turns out the guy had opened my front door (we were in and he hadn't knocked or rang) and put it in the paper recycling bin that lives there and just left. We recycle lots of packaging stuff so didn't notice until I went to take the bin out and thought it was bloody heavy for some brown paper and junk mail.

you all need a porch. my parcels all get left there.

Pictures that is GROSS. If I found a parcel in our food bin, I don't think I'd want it.

Bins are for rubbish, not brand new items that someone has just paid to have posted to them. I don't think it gets more black and white than that! I just don't want my parcel covered in bin dirt, and certainly don't want it being ground up in a rubbish truck.