To have expected logs to be stacked?

[Changerazelea]

Had a delivery of logs today, delivery driver tipped them in my driveway and then proceeded to tell me "We don't stack love"
Spent the next 2 hours moving and stacking them into my garage while DS screamed and I berated myself for not being assertive enough to have insisted driver helped me move into garage.
Does common courtesy no longer exist? Driver seeing me with baby in arms surely should have offered to help...
First world problems but AIBU?

Suppose I understand that it wouldn't be normal to stack every delivery they make but Is it unreasonable to have expected some help with a tiny baby in arms

Yes. He has more than one delivery to make. Probably several. It's a PITA but helping you stack because the last customer had a tiny baby in their arms isn't going to get the rest of his logs delivered on time. Time is money and all that.

I guess we must be paying extra then to get ours stacked!!

It's worth it though.

Not only do ours not get stacked, the driver can't get onto our drive, so they get dumped on a pavement and DH and I have to bust our arses to get them shifted as soon as possible so we don't inconvenience the neighbours. It's back breaking.

(And there is no way I'd expect our delivery guy to move/stack them for us - he's about a million years old!)

YABU

even if they do it twice as quick as you, that's still an hour on every delivery

You having a tiny baby is neither here nor there. Both the baby and the stacking are your responsibility not theirs.

Unless the guy delivering the logs is the father of the tiny baby, yabu

Totally normal. Price quoted is usually for a volume or weight of logs plus delivery, but not putting them away for you. Did he ask you first where you wanted them dumped? Did you not realise at that point that you would have to move them yourself?

Very unreasonable. Stacking is extra £20 approx

I wish I could've seen the delivery driver's face when you announced that you expected him to stack the logs for you!

Some log companies round here will put them where you want for a fee, some won't . It also depends on the size of the delivery lorry and access
But I think you are being unreasonable to be honest. Yes, you've got a baby, but he has a schedule of deliveries to make and would have been really late with subsequent ones if he'd stopped to help
Next time either find a company which offers a stacking service or pick a day when someone can come and help

oh I see...it's really funny I think you are entitled because you have a baby and expect someone else to do a two hour job for free because you were holding the baby

ooooookay.

Think of the baby fat you just burned off... a pt would of charged you £20 for setting that up as some exercise! 😂😂😂

Ordinarily I totally get it but it is really unreasonable to have expected some help as I had a baby in arms?

Yes, it is unreasonable. I fucking hate it when people assume I'm some sort of delinquent because I have a two week old baby, and it's thanks to people like you. You ordered a delivery without checking what service you were getting and you expect the company to work for free, providing a service which they stated they don't provide, just because you have a baby in your arms? The logs are in your driveway, it was a non issue, presumably your OH/friends/family/you when baby is asleep could stack a few logs.

OP you are being ridiculous.

YABU - holding a baby doesn't entitle you to two hours free labour. As someone else pointed out, if drivers spent hours stacking logs, they wouldn't get deliveries done. If a company offers this service, I would expect to pay a premium for it.

nope ours are not stacked either... luckily my babes are 17/18 and will stack for dosh :D

DH is at this moment stacking the delivery of logs that arrived today. It would not have occurred to me that the delivery guy would do it .

Out of interest, what other free services do you expect because you have a baby? Should taxi drivers, for instance, not charge you because going on the bus with the pram is a hassle?

YABU.... they don't ever stack them unless you pay for that service. They just dump them and move on!

Thanks for the laugh OP! I needed that.

No, they're not going to stack your logs for you, no matter how good your sad face or how many times you mention the baby. Put the baby down and stack the logs. Simple.

Well we've obviously all learnt something about log delivery etiquette - but that it doesn't apply universally as some pps get theirs stacked.

But I don't see why people think that what was essentially a misunderstanding as to the service paid for was so hilarious or makes the OP so entitled, unreasonable etc. OP even says she accepted it at the time. Plus it's no so mad if some pps get this service.

I do also think the person delivering could have made his point with more appropriate language. "Love " is never appropriate (unless you do love the person)

If you don’t want to stack them, how about getting them delivered in crates instead?

We had a delivery the other week and I thought about leaving them for DH to sort when he got home from work (am 37 wks Pg) but ended up co-opting the kids into some manual labour and we got it done...didn't want them to get rained on.

No, ours unloads them in the driveway and I get my day's exercise by trundling back and forth with the wheelbarrow and hefting them in and out of it.

Is it unreasonable to have expected some help with a tiny baby in arms?

Just because you have a baby does not mean he has to help you. He has other customers to see!

My gas supplier neatly delivers my fuel directly to my fire. It a system that works for me, very convenient.