To think having shopping delivered before 8am on Sunday is not very neighbourly?

[lieinsareunderated]

We've been away for the last two weekends so I'd blissfully forgotten about this really annoying routine my relatively new neighbours have. Then I heard the "slide crash" of the Tesco van this morning at 7.36am .
She's on mat leave, he wfh and certainly doesn't seem to be confined to home office all day everyday, so they really don't need it delivered this early on this particular day.
I usually have to get up at about 8.15 on Sundays to cart my DC's off to various sporting activities. But in the week I have to get up at 7.15 so that extra hour is cherished. Only now I'm awake thanks to the dulcet tones of crates being unloaded.
This is lighthearted btw, I know they are more important things to worry about. But bloody hell it's a bit rude!

It takes less than 5 minutes? Thru are usually the cheaper slots.

Did feel a bit bad the other day that I had a 7am-8pm ikea slot with 50 items and they were here at 7:00:01

I think that's really rude. A delivery before 8 am on a Sunday is taking the piss.

I've been woke up once a week at 7am for 11 years from the bin men. I've never got used to the noise.

@MrsSkylerWhite

Early slots are cheaper. YABU.

who still pays for slots?

Surely weekdays would be cheaper than weekends anyway.

Can’t you just wear earplugs

Fuck. I'm hearing impaired and I do this 😬 I didn't know if made so much noise and pissed people off.

I think it's fine. Not antisocial.

i am surprised tesco deliver at that time on a sunday

Haha my friend is up at 5am every day and goes to bed at 9pm. He was complaining his neighbours have deliveries at 10pm to 11pm and saying it’s outrageous. I’m that person (although not my friend’s neighbour). I know I’ll be home and not dropping a young teen somewhere, doesn’t interfere if I want to go out for the day unexpectedly and the food is there for the next day. I guess it’s important to realise that others have different clocks and routines to you and with a small baby they’re probably halfway through their morning by then.

i would complain to tesco rather than your neighbours though

@Dishwashersaurous

Why does a van unloading wake you up?

Some people on here so thick

@Lumpwoody

I wfh but I can’t get shopping delivered because I’m busy wfh during working hours.

What?

@isthisareverse who doesn’t pay for slots? it’s £5 per month delivery or £1 a delivery so I pay per delivery. I did do the monthly thing but covid initial meant paying with no availability so I stopped.

Just brilliant, may steal this

I can’t get shopping delivered during my working hours because I’m working.

So I get it delivered in the evening or on the weekend.

Just because her oh is wfh doesn’t mean he can get a delivery during the day. I can’t stop and go and unpack shopping when I’m wfh.

I can imagine it's a bit annoying alright. My neighbours on both sides get Tesco deliveries, at reasonable hours and it would definitely wake me up if it was happening early in the morning.
They don't seem to make much noise with the crates but the sliding doors open, and closing them is a bit noisy. I always know it's the Tesco delivery when I hear it.

Hopefully you might be able to tune it out as time goes on, and hopefully that will be the worst noise they make.

@SpindleWhorl sorry my above message was supposed to quote your brilliant post, but quote not working

@Lumpwoody

I can’t get shopping delivered during my working hours because I’m working.

So I get it delivered in the evening or on the weekend.

Just because her oh is wfh doesn’t mean he can get a delivery during the day. I can’t stop and go and unpack shopping when I’m wfh.

Don't you have a lunch hour or a break during the day?

It’s annoying to be woken up but I don’t think it’s unreasonable of them really. Shopping deliveries are part of every day life, as is the family next door leaving mob handed to go somewhere at 6:30 this morning which woke me up. Irritating but I don’t expect them not to do it, or to keep 3 boys under the age of 10 quiet as they do.

Some noise you sadly have to live with if you have neighbours.

Our neighbours do the same. We live in a tiny cul de sac so any noise transmits. I’ll be honest, it’s a bit annoying but we like a lie in & are quite lazy in the mornings.

I don't think it is 'unneighbourly' of them to use a legal service. I think it is just part of living in an area where houses are near to each other, unfortunately.

I get disturbed by the noise of late takeaway deliveries or taxis, but I do not think they are doing anything wrong. We recently had a large group of people standing in the street for hours, that was unneighbourly.

I take half an hour for lunch and delivery slots are an hour long so I can’t guarantee it’ll come in my break. And because of meetings and work I take a set lunch and have that blocked in my Calendar.

If one has the choice, probably better to choose a later time. But delivery slots in some places are like gold dust (both in rarity and in expense at the more popular times), so this may have been the time that your neighbours could get.

Not with you OP on this one. Supermarkets actually have these things called proper time slots, and stick to them (never failed me, never failed my mum), not the vague morning or afternoon timings of utilities or parcel deliveries, or now some GPs.

And someone working from home may be on calls at various times not known days in advance, who may feel embarrassed if a delivery came during one, or have an unreasonable manager who will criticise if this happens.

for those thinking everyone can reliably fit a delivery slot into a busy working day when wfh.

These comments can only come from people with limited experience of the workplace - not every job is as flexible or as relaxed as to allow that! At my work, if someone phones, I'm expected to answer, and it is likely to be pretty important/time-critical.