Aibu to leave a snotty note on my door for post woman

[Shosha1]

We moved into this house 5 months ago.

And ever since the post woman won't ring the bell!

So if we have parcels ( which is often) we end up having to go get them from the sorting office 12 miles away!

We put a not under the bell saying please ring the bell.

Still we are getting ' you were not in' notes put through the door

I saw her the other day ( we can't see front door from lounge ) as I was coming in. She was putting a not in note through.

I told her my DH was in, and had she rung the bell ?

She insisted it didn't work. I pressed it and ding dong it worked.

Anyway took parcel and went in.

Yesterday yet again a not in notice.

So today I put a note on door saying

Royal Mail we are in. Please ring !

If we're not in our lovely regular postie leaves the parcel in the porch. We always know when he's on leave, as we get those stupid notes.

I once had the postie put the card through the door while I was in the hallway and they hadn't knocked or rung the bell. It was while I was on maternity leave so there wasn't usually anyone home at that time and it was a top floor tenement flat but still...

I'm in NZ now and same issue with couriers. We've had them leave a card on a Saturday morning while we've been in the house with two kids so clearly home but they haven't knocked or rung the bell.

i work from home and order a lot of parcels (one everyday practically) out postie is brilliant! he knows if the curtain on the front door is closed..he knocks on the window

While we're at it, I had a note through the door that I needed to pay excess postage on a letter, I stuck the required amount in stamps on it and sent it back, it came back to our house twice! The second time was after I'd written, "Please deliver to this address" above the delivery office address.

I don't understand why filling out a card (don't they have to copy down a serial number on to it? ) is faster than just ringing the bell and handing you the parcel.

I don't understand this either and our current post woman is way beyond excellent, BUT at a previous house I saw the postman put a red note thing through the door without knocking or ringing. I chased after him and obtained the item - I didn't think to ask him why he evidently filled in the card and posted it - it makes no sense to me.

BTW OP, YABU, not because you don't have a legitimate complaint, but because "snotty notes at dawn" isn't the way of dealing with anything is it?

I once had a Parcel misdelivered (DH didn't look at address and signed for it) for a house a couple of streets away. It was from Ikea so I called them to say I would just drop it off at the right place, just as well as they had the address wrong in their system and were due to deliver another 66 parcels to us the next day.

Also had a fantastic postie at our last house who saw me heading home after walking the dog and came back to deliver a parcel. I used to answer the door to her in about 5 different houses I worked in and she was always really nice.

My postie left a parcel in the bin and put a red note through the door to say so. I wasn't sure I was reading it right but when I went out to the wheelie bins there it was, sitting amongst bin bags and cat litter bags, in the wheelie bin next to the shed which is not padlocked. Didn't complain as it was a one off, in your case I would but be prepared for things to get worse before they get better!