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Original poster

Vegetable delivery guy calls me to accept delivery for my neighbor

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BeyonceZ · 01/07/2017 09:08

Last week, the delivery guy buzzed me. I went down (three stairs down) to the main door and asked for whom was the delivery. He said, "apartment 6". I told him I'm from apartment 3. He said, "I know, I needed you to open the main door so I could leave this box inside".

I asked him why he didn't ring apartment 3. He said he could not get through.

Today, the guy rang again. He said, "I have a delivery for apartment 6". I told him "this is apartment 3". He said "yes, I just need you to open the main door." I said I was busy and he should ring apartment 6. He rang again several times which I ignored.

Was IBU?

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ohmywhatamisaying · 01/07/2017 09:26

3 flights of stairs you say? Oh my

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BeyonceZ · 01/07/2017 09:26

So you don't actually need to go down and let them in but you choose to

Would you open the main door for someone you don't know?

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BeyonceZ · 01/07/2017 09:27

3 flights of stairs you say? Oh my

Yes, we're on the third floor.

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robinia · 01/07/2017 09:27

Just because the guy has a box of vegetables doesn't mean he is a bona fidd vegetable delivery guy.

AgentProvocateur · 01/07/2017 09:27

Buzz him in, then open your door and speak to him as he passes. It's not really that hard to be a decent neighbour, is it? Hmm

Trollspoopglitter · 01/07/2017 09:27

Your neighbours are assholes for arranging a weekly veg box to be delivered, knowing full well they will never be home to receive actual delivery. It's like getting an Ocado delivery and expecting your neighbours to deal with it, because you don't mind it's left inside the building just not out front. Hmm.

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BeyonceZ · 01/07/2017 09:28

That isn't really the issue is it? The issue is that you couldn't be bothered to do somebody else a small favour.

Actually, if I were to have a delivery for me, I would arrange it to be delivered when I am home, or redirected somewhere else. I would not expect my neighbours to get it.

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BeyonceZ · 01/07/2017 09:29

Just because the guy has a box of vegetables doesn't mean he is a bona fidd vegetable delivery guy.

And the box was a brown box. I didn't even see the vegetables last week.

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BeyonceZ · 01/07/2017 09:30

Your neighbours are assholes for arranging a weekly veg box to be delivered, knowing full well they will never be home to receive actual delivery. It's like getting an Ocado delivery and expecting your neighbours to deal with it, because you don't mind it's left inside the building just not out front.

Also, I'm not sure what happened to last week's delivery.

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cowgirlsareforever · 01/07/2017 09:31

God yes. What absolute 'assholes' some people are for having vegetables delivered to their own flat. Far bigger 'assholes' than the person who can't be bothered to spend 30 seconds opening a door.
And yes, the vegetables could be fake Grin

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BeyonceZ · 01/07/2017 09:33

Far bigger 'assholes' than the person who can't be bothered to spend 30 seconds opening a door.

Actually, this asshole needs to go down three flights of stairs to open the main door. With a baby in tow.

And yes, the vegetables could be fake grin

Or they could be a bomb. Who knows. It's inside a box.

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cowgirlsareforever · 01/07/2017 09:36

This thread has made me think about the mumsnetter who last week drove a fellow mumsnetter she didn't know back from hospital. It was an extraordinarily kind thing to do. I have to remember stories like that when I read threads like this, in order to keep myself from becoming thoroughly depressed.

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BeyonceZ · 01/07/2017 09:37

Ok, cowgirlsareforever

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FannyWisdom · 01/07/2017 09:39

Why would the vegetable guy try to bomb you?

Organic branch of Isis?

BigGreenOlives · 01/07/2017 09:39

Those who would just buzz anyone in, do. you wonder why there's a buzzer? It's to stop random access.

AwaywiththePixies27 · 01/07/2017 09:39

Erm. The OP isn't being a cock.

My Mum lives in a buzz entrance flat and shes not allowed to open the main door for anyone else either. Mainly because some thick twat let 'a workman from the council in once' without verifying who they was. Two flats on the top floor were absolutely ransacked by the local burglars.

The last flat my mum lived in was a buzz entrance too. Her stupid neighbour not only let them in when they said they'd just moved in (a lie) he even lent them a clawhammer when they said they were sorting some DIY out. They used said clawhammer to smash my mums window and break in for the third time in 3 months.

I dont give a flying fuck if that person says they're delivering vegetables or a telegram from the Queen. Lived here six years and never once relied on a neighbour to take a delivery for me. When I'm awaiting a delivery I make sure I'm in or make other arrangements!

cowgirlsareforever · 01/07/2017 09:40

Who said they would let anybody in? I would let the vegetable/bomb man in though.

Caulkheadupnorf · 01/07/2017 09:41

cowgirls a few years ago a MNetter came and visited me in hospital when no one else could. It was very kind and I always remember.

OP. If it's that much of an issue for you to do it then talk to your neighbour.

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BeyonceZ · 01/07/2017 09:41

FannyWisdom

The point is that nobody told me about any delivery. Even last week's delivery which I accepted, I don't know what happened to that after the brown box was left inside the main door.

The guy could actually leave the box outside the main door, in the short hall, where the mailbox is.

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CheshireChat · 01/07/2017 09:42

Actually I kinda agree with the OP, she can't just buzz him in and I wouldn't fancy carrying a baby 6 flights of stairs, especially not all the time. Fine as a one off, but regularly? Why can't someone from the ground floor let him in?

PetalsOnPearls · 01/07/2017 09:43

OP Honestly, thank you for going down to the door to check who it is, and once again you are definitely not being unreasonable.

When we got broken into it was awful; it could have so easily been avoided by people being more careful. Of course the flat that buzzed them in didn't get broken into because they knew the occupants were inside; they had an entire list of flats where people were out or at work because they'd tried several buzzers.

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BeyonceZ · 01/07/2017 09:43

cowgirlsareforever

So how would you know he's really a vegetable guy?

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stitchglitched · 01/07/2017 09:43

YANBU. I lived in flats with intercom a few years ago and would never buzz someone in unless a neighbour had asked me to. Could be a burglar, abusive ex boyfriend, anyone.

PetalsOnPearls · 01/07/2017 09:44

The guy could actually leave the box outside the main door, in the short hall, where the mailbox is.

This is what he should do.

This is what happened with our block; deliveries were left there. If it was something signed for then someone would usually go down and sign and collect on neighbours behalf, but fruit and veg boxes, parcels, post etc was left in the foyer.

RedHelenB · 01/07/2017 09:44

I really don't get the angst about half the stuff on mumsnet. I offer to take parcels, my neighbours will now my lawn occasionally if I've not got round to it, I let my next door neighbour take a tiny portion of my garden to enable a better access for his elderly relative ect ect. Is it a more southern thing to be this uptight about neighbours?

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