To think 9 am on a weekday is not 'early'

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Yesterday I took in an amazon package for next door, which happens to be a student house. I don't mind as they've taken stuff in for me before.
I tried to take it round last night but no answer.
I tried again this morning, after the school run at about 9 am and one of the girls who lives there answered the door, took the package but said 'oh it's a bit early for knocking on the door'. I did point out that it's 9 am!
So, WIBU to take the parcel at 9 am?! Not a student bashing thread before any jumps on me - I was one until a few months ago, hence why we live in an area with lots of students as good location to uni.

I had lectures at 9am 4 out of 5 days when I was at uni so no, YANBU, 9am is not early.

I had lectures that started at 8am as a student. And had frequently spent an hour on the river rowing before they started. So if you knocked on my door after about 6am, you probably wouldn't have found me in. Those were the days when I could survive on about 4 hours sleep. Sadly long gone.

It's all subjective.

Night shift workers for example. Try waking them up at 9am after going to bed an hour before. Everyone is different. There is no absolute right answer.

Judydreamsofhorses I'm a lecturer too - you get Easter holiday?! I've been in work nonstop for the past fortnight trying to get through my marking!

Hmm - I would have thought 9am was the start point for acceptable door knocking (students excepted!) especially if it's in the neighbour's interest but seems from this thread that that's a bit early still.

Hahahaha, students eh?

No, 9am on a weekday is just fine. She should have thanked you profusely, instead of being so rude!

Mind you, it's not just students. I have a childless friend who is an academic who was outraged at the idea that 9am teaching slots should be taken by those without childcare responsibilities, allowing those with kids a bit of extra time for the school run. Apparently this was 'unfair' and 'discrimination'.

I don't have kids either, but would be more than willing to do this for my colleagues who do.

Do you not just think she was making light of why it looked like she had just gotten straight out of bed, rather than telling you off for comming too early?

DD is at uni back on placement on Monday. Her lecturers are 100% available this week. Healthcare course though.

She was up at 9 this morning and didn't get in from placement until 23:30 last night.

YANBU, sounds like an entitled cheeky madam. If it was the postie banging her up would she have said the same to him/her LOL?

9am may be early for them but the fact is getting up to answer the door won’t kill them. If they are young they can probably go straight back to sleep, it’s only since having DS I’ve got that annoying “once I’m awake I’m awake” thing that parents/older people seem to get. I need to get errands done in the morning after dropping DS to nursery so I would not think twice about dropping a package off at 9am. 9am is like a morning watershed really, its not early morning after 9 in my mind!

I think its a tad early on balance if im honest.

However, the mistake you made was taking it round. Let them come and get them if you're kind enough to take someones parcel in!

^ I'm young and I've never been able to go back to sleep. It's not an older thing.

I think it’s a bit early. I often go to friends houses straight from school run but I kill around till 9.30 to give them some time, even though I could be there by 9.05.

Students especially. I might have knocked at lunchtime

yanbu!

I would've thought 9am early as a student, as most days my lectures didn't start till about 11 I was also a night owl, so often wrote essays etc late into the night.

I wouldn't have said so to someone delivering a parcel though.

Mill around. Not kill around.

All these early birds are still awake though at 11am. I don't think that just because I'm usually still awake at midnight that that makes it an acceptable time to phone anyone. I wouldn't ring after 8:30pm ish except to my family who would also be up.

Do people not get that everyone is different so there will be a time when you're not potentially waking people up or disturbing their evening so why not stick to these times?

Middling we don't know if the parcel belonged to the girl who answered the door. And not everyone can just get back to sleep easily. I did say she should have thanked OP but plenty of people would be still in bed, or at least still in PJs mode, at 9am. Not my DH who is one of those 6am crew the weirdo!

I don't think I'd knock on someone's door before 10 or afyer 6.30ish.

She may have just woken up and not know what the time actually was

I think it's really late now, but in my student days it would have felt like the crack of dawn!

IamPickle glad you clarified!

Mixed opinions, it seems!
I took it round, as I have a small hallway and I thought oh I can get rid of it ASAP.
As I don't really have space to store parcels for neighbours, and according to this thread it seems there's never a universally ideal time to knock on someone's door, I'll just say no to the postie/delivery man next time.

Just forget it. You were being kind and the student was probably annoyed at having her sleep disturbed and was unintentionally entitled and rude in her comment.

Lots of them work nights or actually have lives that don't end at 9:30 pm..oh the days so it's the same as with any shift worker.

9am is within normal working hours, you were doing her a favour and 9am was convenient for you. If they are going to be fussy about when parcels can be delivered, just don't take parcels for them.

blimey! MN is so good at the old " I get up at 4am and have 17 loads of washing done and have cooked a full roast by 9am"
they are students, they are on holiday.
9am is too early, she probably wasnt being rude!
I wouldnt get out of bed before 9am if I didnt have to

It's early for me but there again when i go to bed at 12.30am that's not late for me even though some of my colleagues go to bed at 21.00hrs.