(Very very nervous, this is my first AIBU 
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Am I old fashioned, or victim of some peculiar local practice when I grew up which hasn't caught on elsewhere in the UK, or is the point of a doorbell to be rung to alert the occupant of a property that their attention is needed.
Maybe a parcel being delivered.
Because in the past 2 hours, I have had a delivery, and MrsLH has had a delivery, and the only way we knew was by the faintest tapping on our door. To tap our front door means lifting your hand so it's level with
the doorbell.
Am I alone in finding this behaviour inexplicable. No attempt to ring the bell. Just a half-arsed tap. When I asked the drivers why they didn't ring the **ing bell, they both shrugged their shoulders and said "sometimes they don't work".
Annoyingly, working from home with an office overlooking the front (which means I also see the sodding drivers clump over our lawn) I usually spot deliveries so can get to the door. But both these happened when I was having a coffee (out back).
As I said, I'm probably old fashioned 