About reasonable hours for ringing someone's doorbell?

[OffasBike]

My neighbour just came to collect a parcel I'd taken in for him.
Rang the doorbell at 11.20pm!
Am I being old fashioned to think him a total bell-end?

I think it's rude.
If I got home late and found out a neighbour had a package for me I would wait until morning.

I love my neighbours. If they saw I was still up, it wouldn't bother me. But neighbours further down the road who I don't know well, I would think that was very rude. In the first instance I don't mind opening the door in my pyjamas, but in the second instance I would mind that.

That is late. However if he could see that you were awake and watching tv etc then I can see why he might think it's ok.

There are many on here that don't answer their doors at any time.

Would it have been obvious from the outside of your house that you were still up?

I'm in a flat with a shared stairwell, so he can't see anything at all but my front door. I don't know him - there's a very high turnover of tenants where we live as it's a studenty area.

What's the position on cut off times for delivering a misdelivered parcel?

The postman got me out of the shower and I was dripping wet all over my hallway. I'm in an upstairs flat so buzzed him in to leave the parcel in the communal hall and it wasn't even for me but I didn't know this because I'd been in the shower. I was so pissed off!
The relevance is that it was for a similarly named address and I took the package round at 9.30pm because I'm agoraphobic and it's much, much worse during the day.

I was honestly so distressed at being put in this position - somehow responsible for someone else I didn't know's parcel.

I dealt with it by delivering it when it was dark and even that stressed me out enormously, but even so I felt so bad at disturbing them!

I'm stressed about it even writing this.

after 9pm is definitely too late - beyond 8.30 is getting increasingly dodgy

Wtf. So even though the responsibility for this parcel was forced upon me, I was still in the wrong. Next time I'll let it get lost in transit.

No pivoine,
That's not what anyone is saying. Just either
A- if able, deliver at an appropriate time.
B- if not able to do so leave it outside there door

You are right to say it is far too late.

It is not relevant if you are up , you have every right to be up and not be disturbed at night.

There is no obligation to answer your door at all , day or night.

You can set the times of availability to your house by not answering the door in the hours that you see as not suited to you.

Your neigbour is wrong , being a good neighbour is all about respect for the other persons private home life.

Anything after 9pm is too late. You could have been sleeping or in your pjs.

Phew! I'm glad people agree. I was actually still up - I was in the shower when the doorbell rang but it's only because I'm on annual leave that I was up that late. Normally I have to get up at 6, so need to be asleep by 10pm to get 8 hours.
I flat share, and two of my other flatmates were in bed already and had to be up early. My third flatmate was the one who opened the door and gave the guy the parcel. His reaction was why I posted in AIBU - he just didn't seem to see anything wrong with it at all. Mind you, he is not the most considerate person himself....