Am rather cross

[Gotnopokerface]

AIBU to think delivery folk shouldn't bang on your glass door with the corner of their phone when they have hands, my doorbell can be heard working from the outside, and my house isn't on fire??

I considered going outside to say thanks by doing the same thing to their van.

OP YANBU at all, they are rude twats frankly.

I wonder if they try to avoid all door bells not to be on camera?

Not using the bell is just stupid.

It's I missed that memo.

Only joking

YANBU for being irked. It would have pissed me off made me jump.

OP - you have been a victim of the MN sheep - first poster shouts Baa - and all the rest follow !

I've noticed this frequently. In the last few weeks there were two almost identical OPs. In the first one, the initial response were supportive and the rest of the thread pretty much followed that. The second OP was responded to critically initially and that's how the thread stayed.

I almost posted on it linking the identical thread with a "WTF is going on here?" message. It was so bizarre.

Lol. Hardly think they'd want to break their own phone so can't be banging all that hard!

Be glad they knock at all. Our's don't. This week, I've had one delivered next door, one left on the windowsill (next to the doorbell) and 2 left on the doorstep.

I had a load of amazon parcels stolen from my doorstep over Christmas because the drivers hadn't even bothered to knock!

Had the same yesterday banging on the glass door with his phone after climbing over neighbours wall

We have a note on our door sometimes saying "Working nights - please leave in Safe Place" which is clearly stated on Amazon as behind our bin.

This is always ignored, cue hammering on the door and me having to get out of bed and come downstairs.

Or they'll knock, and then literally wait 2 seconds before going to knock at the neighbour's door to leave it there (despite me having a Safe Place specified). I couldn't get to the door in that time if I was right bloody next to it!

Or, my personal favourite, don't even knock and just put the slip through saying it'll be at the delivery office tomorrow. If I'd wanted Click and Collect, I'd have asked for it.

To be fair, I don't think everything is their fault - more the company they work for putting too tight a time limit on their deliveries, so they can't wait long enough, or think it's quicker to just go straight to the sorting office.

The driver knows that Mumsnetters don’t answer the door. Therefore YABU.

I'm assuming the glass wasn't damaged so I'm not quite sure I get the issue?

I watched the van pull up, he went next door with a parcel, he then walked up my driveway, minus parcel, and stuck a card through my door telling me that I wasn't in so parcel was with neighbour.

No glass was banged on, no bell was rung.

I must say, I do like your ultra-British heading, OP. It makes a nice change from all the people who claim to be furious and fuming, or better still fumming.

YANBU, it bugs me too. Not because I think my glass will be damaged but because I can’t hear the knocking throughout the house but I can hear the doorbell. I just don’t get why they don’t use my bell.

YADNBU for using the word cross - it is a great word. “I’m feeling rather cross about that” gets the message across well without needing to raise your voice or anything.

Outraged at this post? ROFL
I agree, it's slightly annoying when people don't ring the doorbell, I mean, why? It's right there, It's the main method.

@Equanimitas I like that word cross too! And it is very British. Here in Ireland we'd be raging, furious, or annoyed!

Hahaha I'm actually Irish.. But who doesn't love a rather. I'm only "raging" or "pure cross" @hollyhobbi when I'm completely enraged 😂😂
OP who mentioned cameras on doorbells is probably right, although I don't have one. I don't mind knocking at a door but full on corner of their phone battering .. No need.

And as for MN sheep, there is a definite sheep effect!! All hail the goats.

@GotNoPokerFace

The A to E choices are all of the reasons why some things just make me "rather cross" (very elegantly put if I may say so), when other days, I wouldn't give two hoots. Although some days, I just wake up all mardy.....

mardy
/ˈmɑːdi/
Learn to pronounce
NORTHERN ENGLISH•MIDLANDS ENGLISH
adjective
in a petulant bad mood; sulky or grumpy.
"you can get all mardy about it if you like"
mardy
/ˈmɑːdi/
Learn to pronounce
NORTHERN ENGLISH•MIDLANDS ENGLISH
adjective
in a petulant bad mood; sulky or grumpy.
"you can get all mardy about it if you like"

Apologies for repetition in the last post - some over enthusiastic copying and pasting. Don't get all mardy on me.

Love the word mardy too but definitely wouldn't hear it in Ireland.

See also 'don't get a mard on'. Terrible if you mishear it

@Pinkginhelps I love this. I am one, or I have that, or I am in one... Whichever 😂😂 @iklboo had to read that twice 😂😂😂

@iklboo "don't get a mard on". I will adopt this phrase.....thank you!

@Gotnopokerface Happy to have offered some perspective...

I had to complain to Hermes about a courier once who would absolutely belt the door down, it made me jump out of my skin. If you didn’t manage to get to the door in 1.5 seconds he would already be getting into his van. He would sometimes bang loudly on the front window if you didn’t get to the door quickly enough as well, occasionally threw parcels through my open front window. I swear if I had a weaker heart, it could have been the end of me.