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To be Furious at this Delivery Driver

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BoredandConfused · 15/05/2017 13:57

Delivery due today and I'm working from home to receive it. See the driver from my downstairs office and get up to go to the door...literally about eight feet away. He knocks and immediately tries the door to my home. Door's unlocked, starts to open and I'm already there to see him do this. He quickly shuts it when he sees me approach the door and apologises when I open it and roast him but I'm fuming!

This is the second time that this has happened in a week, the first time, the delivery wasn't even for me but for a Neighbour (my annoyance the last time was lost in the fact that they didn't even have the right house) Both times, car on the drive and no attempt from the driver to wait for someone to come to the door. I genuinely don't know if it was the same person both times.
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DeepfriedPizza · 15/05/2017 15:09

The driver had no right to open your door.

For all the door lockers what do you do when your kid/s are in and out playing?
When DD is not at school she is playing in the street with her friends she comes in and out a few million times a day for toilet/drink/snack/toy exchange. How do you handle that?

witsender · 15/05/2017 15:10

My door is always unlocked unless we were out, I don't know anyone who locks their house with them in it!

dontcallmelen · 15/05/2017 15:17

Can anyone clarify locked/unlocked doors please, my front door is closed but not locked unless I leave the house/bedtime are people leaving doors on the latch/wide open or are they shut but not locked?
Just find this all very confusing 😄

hibbledobble · 15/05/2017 15:18

You don't lock your front door??

Coming from London this seems incredibly bizarre.

We had our door left open by the builders when we were renovatiNg, and had not moved in yet. We had a decidedly shifty man come in, and kept it firmly shut after that!

BollardDodger · 15/05/2017 15:19

The driver had no right to open your door.
An unlocked door implies that you are allowing someone with legitimate business to enter your premises.

hibbledobble · 15/05/2017 15:20

I know people who havery left their doors unlocked (not in London) and had opportunistic burglars come in and nick stuff and run. My mind boggles as to why anyone would leave their front door unlocked, unless you live on a remote island.

BollardDodger · 15/05/2017 15:20

For all the door lockers what do you do when your kid/s are in and out playing?
They knock when they want to come back in?

wickerlampshade · 15/05/2017 15:21

Kids in the back garden - back door unlocked
They don't play in the front garden.

DeepfriedPizza · 15/05/2017 15:22

They knock when they want to come back in?

And go running 50 times an hour to let them in, no thanks

hibbledobble · 15/05/2017 15:23

Out of interest: Where do you 'door unlocked' people live? I'm genuinely really curious. Please pm me if you don't want to post. I'm wondering where these uber safe places are, that you feel no need to lock your front door.

YeahILoveSummer · 15/05/2017 15:24

I don't lock my front door if I'm in the house. Yes it is weird a delivery driver doing this.

amusedbush · 15/05/2017 15:25

I feel truly sorry for all you people that live somewhere that you don't feel / isn't safe to the point that you lock yourselves in your homes. How horrible that must be.

Could you sound any more condescending?

thatwouldbeanecumenicalmatter · 15/05/2017 15:26

Annoying though it is and I'm not condoning trying to enter someone's home without invitation I think post workers have a tight schedule to stick to so instead of ringing the doorbell and waiting for you to answer I can imagine they'll try the handle and dump the parcel inside to save time. I keep my door locked (believe me where I live they'll nick anything) but the times I've heard the door and went to answer it quickly and the postman is already two doors down! One time I'd just missed him after pulling up in my car and had to run to catch up!

SweetLuck · 15/05/2017 15:27

WTF?! People are talking as if it's normal to lock themselves in their house? Weird.

morningconstitutional2017 · 15/05/2017 15:28

I always, always lock my front door even if I'm at home, upstairs, downstairs or wherever. You may be only a few feet away but what if you go to the loo? It may well be downstairs too but it doesn't bear thinking about. Lots of burglars are opportunists' who just try a few doors and it takes less than a couple of minutes for them to pick up a bag, purse or whatever and dash off with their booty.

Elderly MIL was burgled (her handbag was taken) when she didn't lock the door.

It regularly appalls me when people don't lock the door. My sister leaves hers open and goes out to the back garden - anyone could walk in and take her bag (left by the side of her armchair) so it's just not wise. And yes, she's been burgled too.

thatwouldbeanecumenicalmatter · 15/05/2017 15:28

Jeez that took longer than I thought as I've just had a bloke at the door claiming to be an ex offender on some sort of selling scheme and can he come in a show me some stuff! Have just rang 101 as there's a lot of vulnerable people on our road. Hope it's nothing!

strikhedonia · 15/05/2017 15:29

I feel truly sorry for all you people that live somewhere that you don't feel / isn't safe to the point that you lock yourselves in your homes. How horrible that must be

Unless you live on one of the Queens'estates with full security (or your name is Carole?), there's no "safe" area I am afraid. It's very naive and incredibly dangerous to believe otherwise.

RegTheMonkey1 · 15/05/2017 15:29

My front door is unlocked all day if I'm home. Only lock it at night when going to bed. The postman opens the front door and puts small parcels etc on the floor just inside. Other delivery drivers knock. Came down one morning and realised I'd left the back door unlocked all night. I live in the back of beyond though.

IfYouGoDownToTheWoodsToday · 15/05/2017 15:31

"An unlocked door implies that you are allowing someone with legitimate business to enter your premises"

Hahahahahhaha.

What a croc of absolute shit!

user1493759849 · 15/05/2017 15:32

@hibbledobble Our front door is unlocked all the time we are in. Small-ish town (4.5 thousand people,) low density housing, large garden front and back, semi rural area, pretty rural county. Not far from river, woodlands, canal, etc.

I used to live in a city and always had the door locked. But here, I never lock it. Very low crime rate, low population, good air, low pollution.

supermoon100 · 15/05/2017 15:32

Perhaps us door lockers don't under stand the 'furious' bit!

dontcallmelen · 15/05/2017 15:36

Hibble I live in sarf London, I shut my front door but don't lock it unless leaving the house/bedtime, I pp asking for clarification as find it very confusing does unlocked constitute left on latch/wide open or door closed but not locked?as it wouldn't occur to me to lock myself in the house, until I'm going to bed.
My front door is an original Victorian door, so no handle/lever like more modern upvc doors maybe this makes a difference?

TheHodgeoftheHedge · 15/05/2017 15:38

Out of pure curiosity, to those people who don't lock their doors, do you not have yale locks? All the front doors I have ever had have been locked when closed (to an outsider) as they are yale locks.

NotMyPenguin · 15/05/2017 15:38

Just lock the door!

NavyandWhite · 15/05/2017 15:39

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