To be shock by the delivery man ??

[firsttimemum889]

Knocked on door quite loudly and ringed the bell. I was upstairs by the time i was at the top of the stairs he litterally opened the front door and left my package there . I know i should have locked but is it really normal to try and open the door ? I was really shocked by this.
He litterally didnt even wait 3 seconds

Why don't people lock their doors?

At least it was just a delivery person giving you something. Not a burglar swiping your car keys/hand bag.

I'm not a paranoid person and I don't live in a high crime area but surely everyone locks their front door?

I'm [shocked] at the number of people who don't have a door that automatically locks when you shut it. What are your insurance premiums like?!

He has committed a criminal act. Worse he's done is trespass, which is a civil matter. But I wouldn't fancy your chances in a claim!

*emoji fail...

Sorry he HASN'T committed a criminal act! Struggling to type today...

I love it when delivery drivers do this, it's so handy

I don't have doors that automatically lock when you shut them and I deliberately chose it that way. I don't fancy getting locked out by it accidentally, which can easily happen.

I do lock all of the external doors every time I use them.

I agree OP I'd hate that and shocked it's actually a thing that happens! I always have the door locked & I'd be pretty unimpressed if someone tried opening it!

I love it when they do this - saves me a trip to collect it. If I’m going out and expecting a parcel, I leave the door open on the chain so they can shove it in.

Lock your door if you don't want them doing it. It's not rocket science is it? As for feeling violated FFS don't be so ridiculous.

Surely if you don’t want people opening your door then you lock it , if you leave it unlocked I would think you are asking for this sort of thing ( or burglars ) .

''Violated'' oh dear, drama queen behaviour at best.

Lock your door if it's a problem.

A couple of our posties try the door and if it's open they chuck the post/parcels in. Otherwise they have to go through a gate and round the side of the house to get the letter box/safe place for parcels.
I really don't mind anymore but at first I felt a bit violated.
It's actually really helpful when it's parcels. Saves me coming downstairs to answer door early in the morning! Our postie signs for our stuff too if he can get it in the letterbox or in the door.

They're in a rush and while I don't think they should open the door if it was locked in the first place that wouldn't be an issue.

I'm amazed by these thread (and this has cropped up more than once) where people have doors that can be opened from the outside. It's surely a huge risk - burglary can happen in seconds. As well as other, more serious crimes....What do you do if you are upstairs? In the garden? In the loo?

I have 2 doors, the porch one can be opened and is in fact never locked. The inner exterior door (IISWIM) can't be opened form the outside.

To the poster who worries about being locked out - leave a key with neighbour?

I had a package left in my porch, the delivery driver took a pic to show where it had been left. It wasn't there, obviously someone stole it. Another time a package was just left with a random new neighbour so unknown to me, no card through my door, and the tracking said it had been signed by me. I had to chase it up with the delivery company, and the retailer, got my money back and eventually it was traced to this neighbour. She claimed to be innocent. She had stood outside my house, signed for the package and taken it.

Nobody could come into your houses if you locked your doors
Have any of you actually tried that, rather than getting all indignant at the news that people can walk through doors that have conveniently been left open, without any magic involved?

What do people do with children that are old enough to play out? Surely you cannot be locking and unlocking the door every time they come in to ask a random question, get a drink, want to find a toy etc. And I wouldn't want to give them a key, it would just get lost (fall out of a pocket etc).

Easier to keep doors locked all the time when children are very young or only adults in the house. Even if you have a dog or cat or other pet.

This comes up fairly regularly on here

The drivers are trying to be helpful

Lock your bloody doors!

I was shocked the first time then happy as we have a porch so can lock the inner door knowing that we have time to get to tge door to oick up packages without having to maka mad dash.

As I understand it the delivery drivers are in such a mad dash to reach the end of very long lists. I wish it were not so but you can see it in the way they drive.

Have wondered how long it will be before we are given the option of paying extra for calmer personal delivers though!

Really? You were shocked? Have you not read the million other threads on here about postmen/women and couriers opening doors to drop off letters and parcels.

To save you having to read all the replies, some people think it's totally fine, some people don't

If your children can play out unsupervised and are running in and out, then surely by opening the door and placing a parcel inside no harm has been done. If there is a cat that can't be let out, it could run past the child, or if you have a dangerous dog, what is it doing around your children?

I don't lock my door in the daytime if there is someone in the house, I would if I went out. My whole childhood and to this day there was always 1 door unlocked at home in the daytime, even when my M&D were out for the day, they also leave their cars and shed unlocked. They have never had anything burgled. I have lived in a city and had to behave differently there. Just wanted to point out not everyone lives locked in.

Normal for rural Sweden

My postman does this. Once it was Christmas time. I had Christmas songs blasting and singing along at the top of my voice. Never heard the door bell ringing.

I was really embarrassed when I saw it in the hallway. He must have a right laugh at me.

I'm [shocked] at the number of people who don't have a door that automatically locks when you shut it. What are your insurance premiums like?!
Password often a solid 5 lever mortice deadlock (ie key lock not an automatic lock) will reduce your premiums. They are very secure locks, much harder to pick than Yale or similar - and you can’t lock yourself out by mistake!