To ask you...no, to BEG you...

[Yesitsbess]

Put your house numbers on your house people!

I lost my hospitality job during the lockdown and, as many people have had to, took up a delivery job to make ends meet. I have learned that delivery drivers are grumpy for a reason! Those reasons are numerous.

If you want to help us out for reasons that include: our safety, our being able to park safely, our being able to make the insane time targets we are set by our companies, our not wasting fuel looking for you (both environmentally and efficiency-wise) and you just getting your food/parcels/taxis on-time then please have a look at the following:

1. God tier - people with GIANT NUMBERS IN LIGHTS on their houses AND BINS ( we love you, especially if we deliver after dark) even if we're not delivering to your house, we use you as navigation because Googlemaps is shite.

1. Mid-tier - people who live somewhere hard-to-find but include directions on their order. Your street has 'odds and evens'. You have your number on your door in a colour that is discernible in the dark.

1. Poo-tier - people who live on a New build estate where the developer assigned house numbers by THROWING A CALCULATOR AT A CEILING FAN, and yet they think Google maps will see us right. It will not and we hate you.

1. Hell Tier - people who live on a main road, with long drives spanning off said main road, with NO indication of what house number/name they are at he end of their drive...

1. Seventh circle of Hell tier - you live very rurally and don't provide directions. Or in a very difficult to access place, or you have insane building works on the path, your dog is horrible (please stop your dogs humping and/or biting us - we're on minimum wage, we don't care if he "never does this usually!")

Anyway, if you've read this and think "We're golden!" on this issue, drive around your neighbouring roads at night and try to pick a random number to find - it's a fun game and might help you see what we see?

PUT NUMBERS ON YOUR HOUSES PEOPLE!

We’re in the God tier - massive number in the glass above our door

YANBU

I have number on door , bin and also a description in instructions to make it easier to find as there is confusion sometimes with road names

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OP just wanted to say that sounds so frustrating, but I couldn't help laughing, yes, out loud, on the bit about new build house numbers being decided by throwing a calculator at a ceiling fan.

And I do agree house numbers should be far more visible, or just exist in the first place.

YADNBU.

I lived in a house that had a name. Name clear at bottom of drive. name clear on house and garage. And lots of said object around. Eg apple tree house -apple trees and motifs everywhere!

To all of you with giant numbers: I SALUTE YOU! If you also have it on your bin then...I love you?! You have no idea how helpful it is!

JakcieWeaver - RIGHT? When you're sailing down a 50mph and the drive was 800m ago and you have another 14 miles to go before you can turn round?!?

3CCC - if the company doesn't allow more than a few characters for delivery instructions, just put a contact number, we know what it means!

We used to live in a new build it was shoehorned in from an old carpark sadly they decided to give us the same street name as down the road (so orchard Street orchard ROAD) we gave up trying to get parcels because the woman on the corresponding road number was a thief she truly believed if it came through her door it was hers and the police did nothing

CCC - if the company doesn't allow more than a few characters for delivery instructions, just put a contact number, we know what it means!

Ok thank you! Will do that in the future

We moved a couple of years back and the numbers are very strange here. I live at 53 next door are 72?

We have big numbers outside and also a light for after dark to help drivers.

I had a white door with 4 inch high black numbers screwed to it , about a month ago my LL repainted my door black

ducks from all the scowls and bad language thrown at me glances round cautiously to see if I am slightly redeemed

The worst ones to find are the farm
When I used to do visits. All you would have is the farm name and a post code.
You're driving down a country road and dont realise you missed the narrow turning a half mile back. And then a 5 minute walk with barking dogs to find the actual entrance.

I feel your pain.
As a paramedic, it's not uncommon to be traipsing around a dark concrete housing estate where not only were the numbers were decided by ceiling fan fate but clearly the architects and developers were on acid designing the layout of said estate.
It does irk me.

AW YOU GUYS! I wrote my little response and then refreshed the page and you're all here being awesome with your numbers!

It would be hugely helpful if we could all access what3words but I think that's mostly emergency services-related. I mean, I consider food an emergency if I'm hungry but...

I AM LOVING ALL OF YOU WITH YOUR BIG NUMBERS AND BINS! LOVING YOU!

I used to live semi-rural with a house name that was indiscernible in the dark. I used the massive White House next door and the models/colours of cars on our drive as guidance in the delivery instructions, I doubt we'd ever have received a delivery otherwise!

Well the builders put the wrong street sign on my street. That was fun-not. After many months they did finally put the correct street sign up.

My road is bizarre. We are a row of four houses. Say 2, 4, 6 and 8 High Street. Our house is number 8 on the end of our row, and next to us on a different row is number 10. Make sense right? Nope, number 10 has a completely different road name. Let's say 10 Main Street. And the best bit? There is a number 8 Main Street, but that is a row of houses behind us. Needless to say we often get post and deliveries for 8 Main Street, as we are next door to 10 Main Street, so it would make sense. I've now got us a door number/sign thing that says 8 High Street, to try and make it clear. But yeah, whoever numbered our houses was on crack I think.

It would be hugely helpful if we could all access what3words but I think that's mostly emergency services-related.

It's just a location app - anyone can download it. Pull up the map and find out what 3 words represent your location and give them to someone else to find you. I use it all the time!

I've just bought a slate house number ,personalised , on ebay for £5.99 including delivery as a result of your thread. very good value. Item number if anyone else is interested is 173742806570

Completely lost it at 'Bigballs drive'.

I do love all you Big number/Bin number people!

Our street - like lots of others - doesn't actually have a number 13.

It has confused a few delivery drivers who are from other parts of the world where 13 is just a number and doesn't mean your house is cursed.

For anyone wanting to help all delivery drivers and emergency services , if you have glass in or above you door . . . . . .
Unfortunately I dont have

www.purlfrost.com/house-number-stickers/stained-glass-house-numbers/

I live down a very narrow street dead end street and, although have a number on the door, live nearby other similar numbers e.g. I live at number 5 Mushroom street, opposite us is flat 5 Mushroom house; just down the road a bit is 5 Mushroom Mews etc. We get a lot of irate delivery drivers.

Curious, where do you place those who live on roads where greater majority of houses have a name instead of a number?

I raise you a rural village with no street names and all the houses have names, not numbers. As in
The Barn
Little Whingeing
Wiltshire

I had to deliver some home learning equipment to some our out pupils at the start of January's lockdown. I chanced upon one house and got directions to the second and spent an hour looking for the third. Eventually someone told me that it was down a track, behind the church.

Not even a hint as to it being there.

I LOVE YOU ALL AND YOUR BIG NUMBERS! Because:

(Beyonce)
If you like it then you should have put a big number on it....