Delivery driver got me to lug my packages off his van onto my front drive

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So took delivery of 6 packages which are the bits needed for racking in my garage. Each parcel wasn't excessively heavy but nevertheless I still felt it was a bit 'off' for the delivery driver just to stand in his van, move the packages to the back entrance and have me unload them and put them on my driveway. I've had plenty of deliveries - not encountered this before. Normally the delivery drivers - will actually well...deliver when its larger items - don't expect them to go way out of their way, but to actually get them off their van and put them on my driveway would be a start

He was a bit of a churlish bugger anyway

This happened to me too:

I had a whole houseload (and we have a big house!) of hardwood flooring dumped on 4 pallets on my drive once, blocking my car in! I was not best pleased.

It was weird because in my case, it was not paid for and the company never called to arrange delivery. So they randomly turn up one day while my parents are out, not only expecting me (disabled) to manhandle them off the front of the drive where anyone could nick them but to pay for them too! I literally knew nothing about it, but had to write a cheque from my student bank account and get my dad to go down the bank and put the money in when he got back. It was very stressful.

Another one was some plasterboard or similar ordered from Wickes. They just deliver to kerbside or something. The guy delivering was actually really nice about it as I was clueless. I think it must happen a lot with furniture and DIY type items.

I had this with a Morrisons delivery.

Basically he got a crate out of the racking, put it on the edge of the van and told me that I could take it. I didn't - I can't lift that sort of stuff.

Then there was a Sainsbury delivery guy who unloaded all the shopping in the garden and walked off, leaving me with loads of bottles and tins and my arm in a sling. Mind you, I have had some extremely iffy experiences with Sainsbury and will only now get delivery from them if I am absolutely desperate and DH is in.

Then there's the DPD guy round here who is absolutely lovely and always pleasant and helpful, not to mention the Tesco guys who have on the whole been stars.

They did that to me once, just stood on the doorstep like lemons.
After that I wrote a note in the 'instructions to delivery driver' at the bottom of the online order asking them to bring the stuff in to the kitchen. And to be fair they always have brought the order
straight through ever since.

That was to TheFreaks ^