To think I shouldn't have to keep complaining about this?

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This is the 4th time I've rang Royal Mail for the exact same complaint and it's been two different houses although not sure how many different postmen.

They keep opening windows and doors to put my parcels inside if I don't answer The most recent one I nipped out and left my windows on the latch but the door locked, I was due a Glossybox so it was obvious to the postman what it was (not important) and I always collect them from the delivery office after a missed delivery. When I came home it was on my sofa (under the latched window).

I have a big dog and 4 house cats who fortunately did not attack him or escape.

Every time I complain they agree it's out of order and say they will pass the complaint on but clearly no-one is listening

If the dog bit him, it would be his fault. And he isn't coming into your house, he's posting it through a gap you left open. Most people would be grateful.

He might not know what a glossybox is. I've never heard of it. He probably sees it as generic post.

He shouldn't be putting packages through open Windows or doors, they should be listening to your complaint and not continue doing it if you don't want them to, but the obvious thing would be to lock up and close Windows so postie couldn't do it anymore.

When we moved to current house, my postman told me he'd sign for parcels that require it and leave them on my doorstep for me to save me going to the sorting office to collect him.

Like your postie he was only trying to help, but I didn't want to leave parcels on my doorstep that have been signed for because then I have no come back if item goes missing, plus the sorting office is only at the end of the road.

If you don't actually see the postman, put a notice on your front door saying something like:

PLEASE DON'T PUT PARCELS THROUGH THE WINDOW IF I DON'T OPEN THE DOOR. I WILL COLLECT THEM LATER.

Or perhaps suggest somewhere else that the postman can leave them safely?

I can see why you'd be mad, but please please lock up your home even though you live in a good community.

I locked my front door but I didn't lock both available locks (which would have made it into a fortress of impenetrability, apparently!), so when I got burgled, my insurance refused to pay anything. Anything!

Not to mention pet related catastrophes. :( Lock it all up, dude.

Collect them not him, that would be odd.

The Glossybox is a generic makeup subscription thing, the delivery office is full of them so lots of people order them. They have it written in huge letters down the side so it's really obvious what it is.

It honestly is normal where I live to sometimes forget to lock up, I don't leave it unlocked every time. There's also been a time where I've been in and not answered (BF the baby) and they've done it.... Don't really want the postman seeing my breasts to be honest

I shouldn't have to expect that a stranger will enter my home surely.

With the dog I'm pretty sure (although happy to be proved wrong) that the dog is automatically at fault even if a burglar is bitten. I was reading up on bailiffs for a friend a while back.

It's just like the issue of my cats getting out, etc. The postie can't just go round assuming that everyone's house is safe to enter. He didn't just pop it through a gap he noticed i hadn't flicked the handle down, pulled it ajar, undid the metal latch inside the window, leaned in at least halfway to reach my sofa and popped the parcel there. What if I'd just got out the bath and that's why I couldn't answer

You leave your windows open and your door unlocked when you're out?

Living in a village does not guarantee a crime free existence.

And yes i will try and consciously lock up from now on its just not something I've been used to doing growing up here

Thanks skate it's the pet stuff that worries me the most

How is its entering your property, dropping mail through a window? I, like previous posters would think it's great not having to go to the sorting office.

If you want to go to the sorting office close and lock all your windows and doors.

YABU

I still don't think I should have to tell the office 4 times that I don't want that assistance, I can drive and the office really isn't very far away in comparison to others. The lady was appalled when I phoned to tell them

Postman involved in delivering mail shocker.

Because Mozzie as I said, he had to open the window himself, wide open and lean at least half his body in for the parcel to be where it was. I left it on the latch as in I didn't pull the handles down before I left.

Just close your windows at the time the post is delivered, this is really not a big deal.

Pictish It would be a shocker if my dog had gone for him, he must have been upstairs, god help him if he was in the same room I dread to think People would be thinking it was an issue then.

The vast majority of people would be grateful not reporting them.

I really don't see your issue here, presumably he pulled the window back over and didn't leave it wide open?

But anyway, you have a so,union without needing to bother Royal Mail again, so that's good.

Post isn't delivered at the same time every day? Not here anyway. I don't want to lock myself into my house constantly but I guess that's everyone's solution even though Royal Mail said they aren't allowed to do this.

My issue is that a stranger is sticking himself through my windows And like I've said repeatedly, my dog has a very high chance of biting him. And I'm pretty sure I'm held liable for that

Yes I will lock up. It's not annoying it's just not something people generally do here so it's hard to get used to, no-one's done it my whole life pretty much so I'm finding it hard getting a flaming for it when I didn't realise it was so unusual

Lumpy No I don't always answer the door like I said it happened while i was breastfeeding once.

What a massive fuss about nothing.

He's trying to do you a favour. You think on their massive rounds they are able to keep all these special rules in their heads?? YABmassivelyU.

Either answer your door or shut the windows if you're going to wander the house naked and your post hasn't been yet today. And ffs shut your house up properly when you leave it. Your insurance company will take great delight in rejecting any claim you make if they see you've not done that.

I lived in the Isle of Man in the 1980s. Front doors weren't locked in those days unless a warning was put out on local radio that certain groups of thieves were on their way over on the ferry.

When parcels were being delivered, the postman would just walk in, through the hall, open the door to the living room and put them on the dining table. I was a bit surprised at first. But when I got over the shock I found it quite charming.