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AIBU?

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Use the ****ing bell

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LurkingHusband · 16/12/2015 11:24

Just had 4th delivery of the day.

Every single delivery had the "special instruction" RING THE BELL printed on the label.

Every single driver tapped the door.

"Never underestimate the predictability of stupidity".

In the Lurking household, if I am not in, and MrsLH is in the back of the house, a knock won't be heard (but the secondary doorbell ringer will).

In the few days over Xmas, I may knock up a detection rig that rings the bell if anyone stands by the door for more than 5 seconds (one project for my Raspberry Pi).

What's the point ?

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howtorebuild · 16/12/2015 15:15

Put a note on the buzzer stating no concierge facilities available.

DamedifYouDo · 16/12/2015 16:09

This drives me nuts too!!! I live in a bungalow and the kitchen is right at the back of the house, if someone knocks on the porch door I can't hear it as there is another upvc door between the porch and the hall. I always write "please ring the bell" and yet people don't, I've missed so many deliveries!!!

amicissimma · 16/12/2015 16:21

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Looserella · 16/12/2015 16:22

Oh I hate this! My in-laws had a habit of creeping up the drive, peering into the lounge and then gently tapping on the window, scaring the living shit out of me. The doorbell works perfectly well.

simplydivine05 · 16/12/2015 17:39

I am with you on this one. I live in a three storey house and work on the top floor, often with a sewing machine running. I get many deliveries each day and them not ringing the bell drives me mad. Even then, several ring the bell and by the time I've run down two flights of stairs they're back in their van or wandering round into the garden to look for somewhere to leave it. I always comment with "give me chance to actually get to the door". Yodel are by far the worst offenders and I don't have a regular driver with them. I think they have a high turnover of staff.

Pedestriana · 16/12/2015 17:47

Put up a sign saying "door knocker broken, please use bell"?

Wigeon · 16/12/2015 19:21

Gah, this has happened to us twice this week - first time, I was working at home, saw the delivery driver walk up the garden path, post a 'sorry we missed you' note and start to walk off again, but not before I lept up and confronted him! I did ask if he rang the bell,he said he did (liar), so I rang it in front of him to show him how easy it was and how it worked.
So at least I got my parcel.

Today, DH was at home all morning, only to discover a 'sorry we missed you' card. Again, no doorbell was rung and no door was knocked on! Why do they do it? So infuriating - the post office place you have to collect from is completely the other side of town and quite a hassle to get to.

saraht84 · 16/12/2015 19:27

Delivery driver here.

I ring the bell and knock. Sometimes the bell doesn't work. Sometimes people don't hear them. Sometimes people come running down the street accusing me of not knocking loudly enough .

Yabu. Get over it .

PitPatKitKat · 16/12/2015 23:24

As I was just leaving to go out today at lunchtime, the Amazon delivery man came.

I was stood just outside the front door of our block of flats, with one foot in a cab when he rang our buzzer, so then we had this conversation:

Me: "Is that for PitPat?"
Him: "Yes" "Woudl you like me to come back later?"
Me: "Well that owuld be nice if it's not too much trouble..."
Him: "What time will you be home"
Me: "Around three. Thank you."

Five past three, buzzer goes, parcels delivered to effusive thanks.

I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen it.

PegsPigs · 17/12/2015 00:25

Which is what I do moggle but my thought is "Why bother having the 'instructions for delivery' box on the label if no bugger ever reads it?"

Senpai · 17/12/2015 02:57

We don't censor the work "Fuck" around here.

Joskar · 17/12/2015 02:59

At least they come to your house. The mad myHermes lady just leaves it with random people in the village; Parcelforce and the Post Office give it to my fil four miles away; Yodel have been known to leave it in the bin although once he delivered flowers by opening the porch door and throwing them in (hadn't knocked so was unaware he was being watched through the kitchen door). Planted flowers in a bowl they were. What a mess.

SteveBrucesNose · 17/12/2015 03:10

Someone should, if they haven't already, invent a doorbell that links to a smartphone app. Rings your phone if someone things your bells or similar.

Of that doesn't already exist and someone makes it after this and makes their millions, at least buy me a beer sometime.

MaitlandGirl · 17/12/2015 04:02

I'm stuck on the sofa with a bad back today so when DP went out she locked the screen door but left the glass door open (the aircon isn't working). I had a delivery I wasn't expecting and couldn't get up.

The delivery guy called through the door (well, yelled over the crazy barking dogs!!) and came round the back with my parcel.

He was really sweet and brought my parcel to me, got me a drink and spent a few minutes helping me sit up before he went on his way.

He came back about 2hrs later, at the end of his run, to see if I needed anything else.

I called the delivery company to sing his praises and was told he shouldn't have done that and isn't allowed to enter the premises!! The parcel was a signed for (must show ID) iPhone but according to the depot he should have left it on the doorstep.

VulcanWoman · 17/12/2015 05:02

Mamma that sign would probably get their back up, they'll do the opposite.

greenfolder · 17/12/2015 06:10

We have a sign on our front door saying "please leave any parcels in the garage, thank you". As we are never in and there's 4 Amazon ordering adults in the house. Altho we live in a town of 50,000 people if you miss parcel force its a 28 mile round trip to their depot. Last week I came home to a note which said " I hope you don't mind but I've left a parcel for your neighbour in your garage and put a note through for them, merry Christmas, postie". So it is perfectly possible to use problem solving skills.

latrilllis · 17/12/2015 10:08

Maitland That's amazing. Hope he didn't get into trouble though for being nice.

I've got plenty of horror stories but thought I'd post the positive ones. I get work documents through the post with tight deadlines and have a few times come home to find that the postman managed to get it though the letterbox and added a note to say he's signed for me . I am sure he's not allowed to do that but it has saved me a lot of time trekking to the depot to collect.

InsufficientlyCaffeinated · 17/12/2015 10:21

Recently was waiting for a really important delivery for my business, paid extra to get it the next day. On the day I saw the delivery driver park right outside then disappear down the street. When they returned they drove off. Knew it was that company delivering but thought maybe I was on a later round, didn't worry too much until much later in the day when nothing had arrived. Eventually called the sender who checked the tracker - it had been delivered down the road because they had another item for there and decided just to leave mine there too without leaving a card through the door. I was fuming, this was an expensive piece of equipment essential to my business! It really isn't hard to find my address nor to check whether or not I'm in.

InsufficientlyCaffeinated · 17/12/2015 10:25

On the other hand my local Royal Mail postie knows that I often leave at around the same time he's doing his rounds and will go out of his way to deliver any parcels to me early so I don't miss them. He's even shouted me from down the street when he's seen me leaving to make sure I get my parcels. He got bit by a neighbour's dog when he posted something to them a while back and I was the next house on his list so he knocked on and I patched him up so he's gone out of his way to be nice to me ever since

TeaStory · 17/12/2015 10:34

Aaarrgggghhhhh! That drives me barmy.

Delivery drivers here pound the fuck out of the door (we have a bell but no knocker), making me jump out of my skin. I've put a sign up asking people to please use the bell, but the last time I confronted someone over practically bashing the door in he shrugged and said "no English".

I had a postie for a while who wouldn't wait for me to open the door properly, as I opened it he'd shove parcels through the gap as soon as he could. He's a lot taller than me so I used to get parcels right in the face.

notafanofwinter · 17/12/2015 10:51

DS was waiting for a parcel. He saw the delivery driver so had opened the inside door the the porch, he was just in time to catch the 'sorry you weren't in' leaflet as it came from the letter box. By the time he'd open the front door the driver had gone.
He wrote a wonderful email complaint to the Company in a poem, TBF the driver came back that evening rather sheepishly.

Hermes or Parcelforce are by far the best round here, I've never had problems with either.

MiaowTheCat · 17/12/2015 12:06

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NeedsAsockamnesty · 17/12/2015 12:12

I have a thing on my drive so when people drive past it it rings in my house so I know they are coming.

I tell everybody it's incase of zombie attack

latrilllis · 17/12/2015 12:40

Needs I wish I had one of those (or in fact a drive )

Pyjamaramadrama · 17/12/2015 12:55

The other side to this is people like us, who's doorbells don't work. It must be infuriating to be in a hurry and just stand there. We do keep meaning to fix it.

I guess they experience a lot of not working doorbells.

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