To not want to eat food delivered to a bin?!

[PurpleCurtain]

Ordered some cereal bars in bulk that were delivered today by Royal Mail. I was in, but feeding my newborn and didn't make the door. They delivered it - to my brown bin, which is inside a bin store to the front of my house. The last things put in there were manure and very mouldy flowers.

DH thinks there's no problem - they are individually wrapped and then in cardboard box and he has thrown the box. I don't want to eat them or frankly have them in my house, and feel completely bemused at the lack of hygiene standards from Royal Mail. Am I being unreasonable?

So there were 3 layers between the food and the (empty) bin - outer box, inner box and wrapper?

Just decant out of the outer box and they'll be fine?

It’s fine it’s wrapped and in a box. Better than having to trek to sorting office to pick up.

YANBU DH can eat them if he wants. I would complain to whoever you bought them from, maybe you will get a refund or a replacement.

The RM was daft to put them there, but of course you can eat them.

You are being ridiculous, they are perfectly safe and fine to eat! It would be so wasteful otherwise. At least give them to a food bank if you can’t get over your aversion.

This is a bit ridiculous, they haven’t been in contact with anything. A bar you pick up off a shelf in a shop will have been in more contact with far more minging stuff than what you get in your brown bin.

You put manure in your brown bin?

Get over yourself

Why on earth is it preferable to going to a sorting office? A regular week's brown bin is one thing; but as I say there was a layer of very moldy flowers in there directly underneath the box and the box was sat in there for about 8 hours until DH got home.

Why couldn’t you nip out to get the box rather than wait for H to get home? Are you house bound?

* This is a bit ridiculous, they haven’t been in contact with anything. A bar you pick up off a shelf in a shop will have been in more contact with far more minging stuff than what you get in your brown bin.*

^This. Seems like you just fishing for reasons so you can complain, get a refund and get to keep the bars for free. Pathetic.

Oh lord - what a fuss about nothing - honestly life is simply too short to get in a flap about something as minor as this.

I don't think it's acceptable to deliver items to a bin, but I do think they're edible. I can see why you'd be put off though.

@PurpleCurtain

Why on earth is it preferable to going to a sorting office? A regular week's brown bin is one thing; but as I say there was a layer of very moldy flowers in there directly underneath the box and the box was sat in there for about 8 hours until DH got home.

Even if it had been in there for 8 days, what exactly do you think has happened to the bars? That’s the entire point of packaging. You’re not eating the cardboard box!

Oh no, not mouldy flowers? The horror 😱

I suggest you never have a good look ‘out the back’ at your average supermarket, you’ll never eat again!

I'd just be glad I didn't have to schlepp to the sorting office to collect it. Life is too short to spend time fretting about inconsequential shite like this. They're in packaging. That's the point of it.

YABU

How do you think they might be stored in the back of a supermarket.

There could have been absolutely anything in the other boxes in the van/sorting office.

@Feelingoktoday

Why couldn’t you nip out to get the box rather than wait for H to get home? Are you house bound?

Because I didn't intend to keep them once I'd received the photo notification showing they were in the brown bin, and because I was at home with a fussy newborn.

Is this a serious thread? It sounds like a joke, like do people actually think the bars will now be contaminated somehow? If it's not a joke then OP you truly need to get a grip.

Imagine how many people have pawed the loose ones in the shop shelf, would you eat them? They are far less clean than the ones wrapped and put in a box in your brown bin.

Also do not do as PP and complain to the company that sent them as I imagine they would just laugh in your face.

In the nicest possible way, you need to get a grip

How pristine do you think cargo trucks, warehouses and shipping containers are?
I doubt your bin is the grungiest thing they've been in proximity to!

Logically what is it you're actually concerned about? It seems a bit irrational

You are being ridiculous they are double wrapped , it’s absolutely no different to putting the box on the floor of a dirty van / sorting office .