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!

I'm the opposite I get the 10-11pm on a Saturday night although it usually arrives about 9.45pm, the driver reverses up our street as well which is really loud as it beeps. My neighbours have 3 kids under 6 they probably curse me!!

I daresay you loading kids in to the car at 8:15 isn't silent either.

but the delivery company is upsetting you, it cant hurt to complain to them, rather than the neighbours.

Underline health issue?! Because the crashing about of doors and boxes wakes someone up? Really 😂😂😂

I know if I live near people I have to put up with noise. But quite frankly I find it pretty depressing that I'm going to be woken up by this every Sunday from now on (unless, fingers crossed, they change their routine).

Why don't you just go and speak to them about it if it bothers you so much?

Well, is usual the truth is somewhere between 'very rude' and 'not antisocial at all'.

It's very early on a Sunday. And although it is certainly true that delivery vans do operate outside people's houses 🙄 those reverse beeps alone are pretty noisy. The delivery drivers I encounter never slam doors for the hell of it, but just getting the crates out makes a noise. So it is a bit rude, and it is a bit antisocial. Not very, though. I couldn't really get het up about it.

Of course it's wrong to make a noise and disturb your neighbours on Sunday mornings.

Yanbu. See also petrol mower as 8 am Sunday morning.

@ExpressDelivery

I daresay you loading kids in to the car at 8:15 isn't silent either.

No I get up at 8.15. We leave the house between 8.45-9.15 (or later). To me personally, before 8am is just too early at the weekend.

@icedcoffees

I know if I live near people I have to put up with noise. But quite frankly I find it pretty depressing that I'm going to be woken up by this every Sunday from now on (unless, fingers crossed, they change their routine).

Why don't you just go and speak to them about it if it bothers you so much?

Because I do actually think it's a ridiculous thing to moan about tbh.

Because I do actually think it's a ridiculous thing to moan about tbh.

Well then, you can't blame your neighbours for doing it can you?

that weird for a noise directly outside your bedroom window that goes on for 10mins

10 mins? We have shopping delivered, there is no way it takes ten minutes, and apart from the van door, it isn’t really a noisy process.

I had an Ocado delivery at 7 this morning and the only thing I heard was the doorbell.
When I asked the driver how he'd managed to be so quiet he said "by being careful and not crashing about".
Even driving away the van hardly made a sound.
Perhaps it's just down to the driver, or maybe Ocado have quieter vans, doors etc than Tesco.

YANBU. The house across the road loves to get early Sunday morning slots or late night slots. The pavement outside my road is very wide so the drivers often park right under our bedroom window. Lovely. They seem to be home all day. Thankfully we are soon moving to a non estate house with the houses quite far apart.

We're still struggling to get a slot sometimes. I think YABU, sorry!

Ha ha- in the bad old days when we had milk door step deliveries with clattering of glass bottles in crates well before 6am!
You would have hated it!
seriously op -maybe she had relatives dropping in on her for Sunday lunch at the last minutes? Lots of reasons - or she was going away & needed food whatever before she leaves

Anyone old enough to remember the milk man clinking bottles at 4am every morning up and down the street? Don't think they delivered Sundays though?

You’re stressing over 35 minutes of a lie in. Use that time to wake up slowly.

Huh? Should cars not drive past your house before 8am either? Mowing the lawn would be rude, getting a delivery is fine.

Yabu it’s a legit reason for noise, it’s not that early and it might be the only slot they could get.
Unreasonable is my NDNs (terraced house) who shout at each other all day and all through the wee hours too. DP heard them put a horror film on at 3am the night before last. They don’t seem to sleep or be capable of speaking at a normal volume 😫 they even do really exaggerated loud sneezes and laughter!

YABU!

Be grateful you're not living next door to the delivery driver 🤣 - I wonder what time he gets up to get to work and loaded and out delivering that early on a Sunday morning and if he disturbs his neighbours?
We are increasingly living in a 24/7 society - if the majority want stuff open and available on Sunday then that's what'll happen and it can't happen silently to appease those who work Mon to Fri 9-5 (or there abouts) so they can have a lie in.
Those of us with jobs that require working early on weekends etc don't get the same if we have a weekday off, we just have to get on with it 🤷

To me personally, before 8am is just too early at the weekend

But not to everyone. Do you expect anyone who has their groceries delivered to canvas all their neighbours to check that their chosen slot does not disturb anyone? Perhaps they should post a link to a doodle poll on the street's WhatsApp group?

Plenty of people don't work Monday to Friday 9-5 anyway, so Sunday morning isn't necessarily reserved for weekend lie ins.

If your neighbours had their groceries delivered at a time that you approved of, say 10 am on a Tuesday, maybe that would disturb someone else, who is in bed after a night shift?

You can't please everyone all the time and you can't possibly run your life never making any noise ever and I really don't see what's wrong with having your groceries delivered at 7.30 on a Sunday morning. During the pandemic, they had to expand the time they worked so as many people as possible could get deliveries, there's obviously the demand for this slot and maybe it was the only one they could get anyway?

I think delivery drivers should be mindful of the time, if early morning slots are available.
I once had to get a fridge delivered over Christmas, after mine broke. The delivery drivers turned up at 6:30am on the 27th December and made sure everyone in the street knew they were awake. Huge beeping reversing wagon that another bloke was also loudly helping reverse. Shouty man was directing colleagues to get fridge out of wagon etc. Banging on door. FRIDGE FOR YOU LOVE. . It was so embarrassing and I was waiting for some bleary eyed neighbours to come round and complain.
Can only imagine dishwater and delivery drivers, are those people that seem oblivious to noise in general. After all some people don’t seem to hear their dogs yapping away all day outside their windows and doors. They seem to lack the imagination to understand that other people might not want to listen to it.