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Original poster

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

289 replies

PurpleCurtain · 21/09/2021 17:47

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?

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INeed2P · 21/09/2021 18:20

@JesusInTheCabbageVan

Do you think your delivery drivers find time to wash their hands after every wee? I can pretty much guarantee there were WILLY GERMS on every single package that has ever been delivered to you.
Jesus why would you say this ... you have forever tainted my mind 😂 I will now be judging every man who delivers a parcel to see if I think there are willy germs!!! 😬
JesusInTheCabbageVan · 21/09/2021 18:20

why would mental health issues be deserving of being treated like st?

...because you didn't mention it?

Trixabellecrowther · 21/09/2021 18:20

@JesusInTheCabbageVan

Do you think your delivery drivers find time to wash their hands after every wee? I can pretty much guarantee there were WILLY GERMS on every single package that has ever been delivered to you.
Willy Germs GrinGrin

Yes OP, you're being a princess. Get them eaten.

trappedsincesundaymorn · 21/09/2021 18:20

You wait until the newborn starts putting stuff in their mouths (slugs, dirt anything they can get their grubby little mitts on), trust me cereal bars well wrapped and put into a bin, will seem the most hygienic thing you'll have compared to what's coming. Grin

JesusInTheCabbageVan · 21/09/2021 18:21

@INeed2P oh, there always are. Always. Grin

VainAbigail · 21/09/2021 18:23

how naive I was!

Well you did post on AIBU, where generally speaking, you get called out when you post something whilst in Princess Mode.

PS - the things are in plastic, don’t be a knob.

Original poster
PurpleCurtain · 21/09/2021 18:24

General "dirt" is not the issue - the issues are 1) it being okay for the delivery driver to designate my bin as a safe place without our say so ( clearly now need to put locks on the bin store) ...I feel the same when drivers open my side gate and deliver to the back of our house and 2) the moldy items beneath it. The bars are loosely wrapped in paper, not plastic. And I dont think I said I wouldn't ensure they didn't go to waste, just that I don't want them in mu house.

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Original poster
PurpleCurtain · 21/09/2021 18:26

@VainAbigail

how naive I was!

Well you did post on AIBU, where generally speaking, you get called out when you post something whilst in Princess Mode.

PS - the things are in plastic, don’t be a knob.

No, there was no plastic, I don't know where people have got that from.
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Dixiechickonhols · 21/09/2021 18:26

If you can’t get box out of bin due to fussy newborn then a trip to sorting office wouldn’t have been great I’d assume. Ours has no parking and is open random hours. I’d much rather parcel was left.
How were you before baby op? Being overly concerned with germs may be linked to baby anxiety and worth keeping an eye on.

FleetwoodRaincoat · 21/09/2021 18:26

Utterly ridiculous. Just eat the bloody things and stop over-reacting.

PattyPan · 21/09/2021 18:27

I was expecting this thread to be a light "I would / wouldn't eat them", how naive I was!

the responses might have been gentler if you had said upfront that you havd OCD, but everyone in the world except for you thinks they are ok to eat, so there isn't really a need to discuss that.

Thehogfatherstolemycurry · 21/09/2021 18:27

You need to get your Daily Fail sad face ready, much compensation and free bars will be surely winging there way to you.

TheWoleb · 21/09/2021 18:27

You do realise that every warehouse will have rats running around in it at night, right?
Ever bought a can if juice and drank it right then? Because the top of that can will have rat piss on it.

All your food packaging, everything, will have had something unpleasant running around on it at some point during manufacturing and being placed on a shelf in the store.

They were well wrapped, in foil. The food is perfectly fine. Grow up.

Notonthestairs · 21/09/2021 18:28

Wouldn't you just wave a bit of dettol over the packaging and forget all about it?

Whentheydontmeanwhattheysay · 21/09/2021 18:29

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

But if you’d got them out they wouldn’t have been in there 8 hours. If you don’t want to eat them that’s fine but I don’t think you have any grounds for complaint when you didn’t answer the door for a delivery -breast feeding baby or not.

Original poster
PurpleCurtain · 21/09/2021 18:30

@Dixiechickonhols

If you can’t get box out of bin due to fussy newborn then a trip to sorting office wouldn’t have been great I’d assume. Ours has no parking and is open random hours. I’d much rather parcel was left. How were you before baby op? Being overly concerned with germs may be linked to baby anxiety and worth keeping an eye on.
Thanks for actually caring. Yes I've previously been diagnosed with OCD, generally under control, mold has always been a trigger.

DH could have gone out to a sorting office, or on a usual day I could have - baby was just particularly fussy today. I think I will be keeping on top of notifications and actively requesting that in future.

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AMALT · 21/09/2021 18:31

😂

iklboo · 21/09/2021 18:32

Having read your other threads OP you seem extremely anxious, fretting a lot over what might harm you / your baby and catastrophising. I mean this gently - are you receiving medical or healthcare assistance for this because it looks like it's taking over your life.

user1470132907 · 21/09/2021 18:33

If you’re going to order stuff by post then you can’t really complain at the attempts of delivery drivers to find a safe place. But it sounds like you don’t like any of their different attempts.

I cannot imagine the ballache of getting a fussy newborn into a car seat and driving to a delivery office.

Brown bin = branches to me. And mouldy flowers are still infinitely better than the manky delivery crates and stores supermarkets used. And there was a time my dad walked through a fruit market early morning and saw a guy pissing directly by the fruit Grin

Wait until the newborn gets threadworms and head lice…

WhyOhWhyOhWhyyyy · 21/09/2021 18:35

I would definitely still eat them if well packaged, but I agree that a bin is a terrible ‘safe place’. I’ve had a few parcels left at the bottom of the general waste wheely bin, usually when it’s totally empty so I have to tip the whole thing upside down to get the parcel out, covered in bin juice. Also had one put in the top of the full bin that was sat at the kerb awaiting collection.

user1470132907 · 21/09/2021 18:35

And yes, this is why you should always rinse can and bottles before opening them (although sometimes you’re not home and thirsty and no one’s gonna die so meh). There is a reason they tell you to do it for baby formula and it applies to other food too!

eddiemairswife · 21/09/2021 18:35

Next time leave a note on the door and coolbox and ask driver to put them in there.

GlitterBiscuits · 21/09/2021 18:36

I love these threads

OP - AIBU?
Mumsnet- Yes
OP - No I'm not.

The food will be fine.
Put a note on the bin. No parcels in here please.

FreeBritnee · 21/09/2021 18:36

Grow up.

CaMePlaitPas · 21/09/2021 18:38

Can tell you've never known hunger OP.