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Yodel delivery driver opened my front door..

333 replies

harboromummy · 30/12/2015 13:44

This is the second time in two weeks! Same guy!

I went to go into the hall way to go upstairs and the delivery man literally came up to the door, didn't knock, opened my front door and went to put the parcel on the stairs!! He about pooed himself when he saw me then asked me to sign the thing.

The first time I heard the front door go went to check and he had done it then too!!

😡😡

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Hulababy · 30/12/2015 15:50

Those saying there is nothing to steal in their hallway ...

Police advise is generally to leave car keys and house keys accessible near doors. So if someone breaks in through the recommended locked door the burglars don't have to come further into the house than necessary - and then potentially running into you and worse.

Many walk in opportunists are looking for car keys, often taking to order from someone higher up.

scarybiscuit · 30/12/2015 15:52

i never lock my front door either -

5madthings · 30/12/2015 15:53

My kitchen and living room look out onto front garden. The living room spans all way from front to back to big windows looking out onto front garden and then at other end of living room sliding doors to conservatory. Kitchen windows also looks out onto front garden. Then.dining room and stairs off the living room and kitchen,. I guess it depends on layout of your house and on the area. As I said in old houses ie victorian terrace thst literally opened onto the street, no front garden at all I would lock the door. But here with long front garden/driveway no we don't. In front garden there is a stand alone basketball net, the kids are often out there on scooters,skates, little ones on balance bikes etc. The bigger kids play in the cul De sac as do neighbours kids so door is unlocked and in summer it's often just open and will be this summer with sleeping madthing6 in pram hopefully.

islemum · 30/12/2015 15:53

Doors left open here.

My delivery drivers know to just pop parcel in door if unlocked.

We live semi rural.

Hulababy · 30/12/2015 15:54

You may find some insurance companies will not pay out of you have an unlocked door - even if that's not how they get in but certainly if it is how they enter.

Pipbin · 30/12/2015 15:54

Yes, pipbin, I always lock the front door (momentary brain farts excepted) because the kids play in the enclosed rear garden.

So what about the back door?

fresta · 30/12/2015 15:59

I don't lock my front door if I am in the kitchen or living room and busy as `i tend to like to be able to open it quickly to put the rubbish out etc, it is alrmed though and I would lock it if I was going to be upstairs having a bath or working. However in the summer the back door is often left wide open as kids are in and out playing and I don't want them locked out!

elf0508 · 30/12/2015 15:59

Royal mail do this all the time, then ring the bell. I'm Confused and Shock at posters saying to complain

BoulevardOfBrokenSleep · 30/12/2015 16:02

I'd open the back door when the kids were playing out, and re-lock it when they come back in?

What I'm saying is, our default door status is 'locked'. Theoretically. My goldfish brain means it is not 100%.

I have a suspicion that a determined burglar with a crowbar could have our rear conservatory doors off in a couple of mins, but no sense in making life easy for them.

lifesalongsong · 30/12/2015 16:02

How can people not have come across front doors with handles that you can open from the outside Shock

I often think posters here live in tiny bubbles and think the whole world is exactly like them - some people lock their doors, some don't, some don't mind if people open the doors, some do. Bottom line - if you don't want people to open the door then lock it.

lifesalongsong · 30/12/2015 16:03

How can people not have come across front doors with handles that you can open from the outside Shock

I often think posters here live in tiny bubbles and think the whole world is exactly like them - some people lock their doors, some don't, some don't mind if people open the doors, some do. Bottom line - if you don't want people to open the door then lock it.

goodnightdarthvader1 · 30/12/2015 16:06

Do you often walk into people's houses without knocking?

WoodHeaven · 30/12/2015 16:07

The same thing happened to me in two occasions.
Once when the dcs were still toddlers and my (very nice) postman open the door enough to drop the parcel. He did me a big favour and i'm grateful for it.
Second time round, I was in the shower at the time so had decided not to answer the door andf to pick up the parcel later. The delivery man came in the house calling for me ShockShock.

Tbh it was a sobering thing and I now I'm much more careful to lock that front door, either when I'm on my own/ it's later at night etc...
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We've never had any burgulary around here though. Not us, not the neighbours. The worst we've seen is cars been stolen to order (ie they would steal one specific car, sometimes moving the one in front of it to get to it. And no they didn't take the one they moved Hmm)

mintoil · 30/12/2015 16:08

I am Shock that people leave their front doors open. There's little point in paying for home contents insurance if you do.

Aren't the people in your home worth more than "things" and therefore worth protecting?

A burglary happens every 40 seconds in the UK according to government statistics, and nearly a third of these takes place when someone is at home.

Dipankrispaneven · 30/12/2015 16:13

Get a sense of humour, Dipank 150 is years is relatively new to the world

Classic cop-out in response to a correction of an incorrect factual statement which manifestly wasn't given as a joke.

Dipankrispaneven · 30/12/2015 16:15

It would be a bit wierd for me to leave baby to sleep in pram by front door only to shut and lock the door... I leave door open or at least a windows open so I can hear the baby. I take it all you door locking people wouldn't leave baby to sleep by front door?

I can honestly say I have never left a baby asleep in the front garden, despite living in a cul-de-sac.

Kaytee1987 · 30/12/2015 16:15

Mintoil this thread shows that people do things differently, and a few people have mentioned their insurance policy doesn't state home has to be secured if they're there - mine included.
That's a UK wide statistic which Im sure probably is correct. Just now I can only quickly find statistics for last month for the area I live in which is 0 crime reported - any type of crime.

PrettyBrightFireflies · 30/12/2015 16:15

suspicion that a determined burglar with a crowbar could have our rear conservatory doors off in a couple Of mins

Most Burglars are opportunists - they won't risk forcing entry, they'll target a row of homes and try each door to find one insecure - with an excuse ready if they get caught (looking for my grandads friend to take him shopping, or saw their lost cat run into the house are both excuses I've known used).

It happens everywhere. I don't understand why you'd lock your car, but not your house!

www.suffolk.police.uk/newsandevents/newsstories/2015/february/appealafterwalkinburglary.aspx

www.suffolk.police.uk/newsandevents/newsstories/2013/november/walkinburglaryappeal.aspx

www.exeterexpressandecho.co.uk/Police-appeal-daytime-8216-walk-burglary-8217/story-21111382-detail/story.html

www.hartlepoolmail.co.uk/news/local/appeal-after-walk-in-burglary-1-5378579

www.newsrt.co.uk/news/walk-in-theft-of-computer-gear-2417448.html

StealthPolarBear · 30/12/2015 16:17

I often don't lock my car too...
and my pin is 7109

wickedwaterwitch · 30/12/2015 16:18

A friend in our village was burgled just after she and her family had returned from holiday - the thieves had walked into their cul de sac, up their drive, along the side of their house and just opened the back door, reached in and taken what was there.

Because they'd just got back from holiday this included her handbag and cards, her husband's camera and a backpack. She had taken the family passports 5 minutes from her bag 5 minutes earlier and put them away.

We're in a village with generally low crime.

Our front door is bolted from the inside if we're in - if I'm elsewhere in the house I wouldn't necessarily hear someone come in. The back door is always locked, as are other doors (we have four doors in and out)

Yodel guy should have knocked IMO!

honeyroar · 30/12/2015 16:18

We don't lock our door either when in, sometimes when not in. We usually have a box of eggs for sale with an honesty box on the front wall too, that's always been fine. We don't even have house insurance, we never have. Apart from the pets and photos there is nothing I'd care about and couldn't replace. We have three dogs, it sounds like Battersea dogs home when someone arrives. It's a rural area. I'm not saying there aren't burglaries, there have been, my friends got done before Xmas and they smashed his patio Windows. If they want to get in they will.

We used to keep our horse equipment in a shed. It was visible from m the lane. The stuff was there for three years the. We put a padlock on. The stuff was stolen a few days later. I'm sure it was the lock that attracted them.

elf0508 · 30/12/2015 16:18

I'm still baffled that somebody would complain. Can't you just be happy that you got your parcel before the bustle of new year? He's a delivery man, I think he has better things to do than risk loosing his job and try and Rob you Confused

BoulevardOfBrokenSleep · 30/12/2015 16:20

Yes, our previous house (urban area, reasonably posh, no car on driveway) had a slow but steady stream of people ringing the bell in the daytime, with unlikely reasons - took me a while to realise they were probably burglars checking if anyone was in. (Yale lock so not worth trying door handle)

witsender · 30/12/2015 16:20

I'd be quite bewildered if someone opened my door without knocking, even my mum does!

OurBlanche · 30/12/2015 16:21

Well, as you know what is going on inside my head better than I do...

But I was being serious. I live in a very rural area, have done for decades, most houses are older than the Yale and very few have them fitted. Many of us still carry keys that are 5 or 5 inches long that work big, scary locks with very pretty escutcheons.

The 'classic cop out' it was not. Just a statement of my perspective.