to expect a courier not to put a parcel in the wheelie bin??!!

[housemum]

AArrgh!!! Just back from a weekend away to find a card through the door saying "Your goods have been safely left in green bin"

Great - the bin men came and emptied it today. To which the courier guy just replied that he was surprised they worked bank holidays - I don't particularly care, what moron puts a parcel in the bin anyway??!!

Rant over, smiles serenely (wow, I've never posted on AIBU before!)

No good for a terraced house though

The box would be OK for terrace with front garden, otherwise you could have a doormouse box for small parcels I suppose.

maybe there should be a central collection area, i know if i were delivering parcels and no-one were in, i'd be tempted to leave them somewhere like a recycling box, ours usually put a note in

the guy's defence was that he had put a note through the door when he delivered on Saturday - but as it was a Bank Holiday we'd gone away for the weekend, came back Monday afternoon after the bins had been collected. How would he have known when the bins would be emptied and whether we were away? I'd rather he stuck a note through asking me to call him to collect, or left it with a neighbour. If he'd stuck it behind the plant tubs by our front door it would have been better - no-one would have seen them from the roadside if he'd stuck it behind a shrub in the porch, and I know Vertbaudet parcels are wrapped in plastic so even if it rained, the porch would have protected it and it would have been in plastic anyway.

It's just Sod's law that parcels always arrive when you go out - I'm a SAHM and they always seem to come when I'm walking back from pre-school - I see the van heading downhill as I walk up and just know there'll be a card waiting for me!

(I must order too much stuff online though - was walking down a road with DD2 the other day past a DHL van - she said, "look it's our van Mummy!"

I don't think you are being unreasonable. If there is a space to specify when ordering, I usually suggest parcels are left in the DC's play house in the back garden. Next have done this, and my veg box is left there too, it is fairly dry and away from the road but we live on a quiet cul-de-sac in an OK area.

housemum- we do too the post lady knows us all by name (and my Mam and Dad too!)

Doormouse box still too big for us, I want a veg box but nowhere to leave it

we sometimes had stuff left on our doorstep when we lived in the uk very annoying.

here in france everyone has boxes outside the house with letterbox type openings the postmen and parcel delivery men have keys to open them and stick larger parcels in. Terraced houses have them as well attatched to the house wall. it must make life easier for the posties as well no risk of dogs biting them, fighting with those annoying letterboxes that are at the bottom of the door.