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?

I mean this gently, but you need help. Nothing is going to happen to cereal bars through 2 layers of packaging. I’m assuming you are aiming to get more for free - or else you really have no concept of where else that box has been.

Even with a fussy newborn, you could have easily put the baby in crib and gone and got the cereal bars.

"Lasers. The bastards have lasers now." this made me lol

I never accept goods from a bin. Its disgusting and I can't quite believe pp on this thread.

What has society come to that we are now all bin dwellers. Taking anything from bins is disgusting. Taking food from bins is far more disgusting.

I would rather die of starvation than eat from a bin.

Yes, yabu.
What’s the problem here really?
they save you a trip to the office with your newborn but you’d rather trek there than to the bin?
You have a child, not broken limbs, are you really saying in 8 hours you couldn’t have collected them out of the bin?
Is there something else going on?
If you’re really worried that mould is going to attack food through multiple layers then i think you need to speak to someone, this level of worry is not ok. The items really will be fine!

Please, please go and see a therapist. If you can't appreciate that the cereal bars are absolutely fine then I'm seriously worried for your child, who will put anything and everything in their mouth in a few months (and yes, they'll be fine).

@Embroidery

I never accept goods from a bin. Its disgusting and I can't quite believe pp on this thread.

What has society come to that we are now all bin dwellers. Taking anything from bins is disgusting. Taking food from bins is far more disgusting.

You do know no one is living in the bin, yes?

@Embroidery

I never accept goods from a bin. Its disgusting and I can't quite believe pp on this thread.

What has society come to that we are now all bin dwellers. Taking anything from bins is disgusting. Taking food from bins is far more disgusting.

This is a brown bin with flowers in it, so garden waste, I assume. Where do you think your food actually comes from?! You have as many issues as the op.

@Embroidery

I never accept goods from a bin. Its disgusting and I can't quite believe pp on this thread.

What has society come to that we are now all bin dwellers. Taking anything from bins is disgusting. Taking food from bins is far more disgusting.

It's come to "it has x layers ffs stop wasting food" point.

Was the driver likely to know the parcel contained food? I always find my 'safe place' requests are completely ignored and the driver decided where a package should be left.

Read Fast Food Nation. It will put you off meat for life, especially if you live in the USA.

I would rather die of starvation than eat from a bin.

No you wouldn't.

I do think the comments are harsh, I wouldn’t want to eat it from the bin either, the recycling bin probably but if it delivered to my general waste bin I wouldn’t eat them, surprised so many would!

Wow, OP you are in for a shock if you don’t know how things are stored in the real world including pallets of bottles kept outside, in warehouses or out the back alley of little shops where rats and cats wee on the packaging etc. You want to rinse any sort of bottle you get and definitely not put it straight to your mouth. Spend five minutes in small retail and your toes would curl.

@PumpkinKlNG

I do think the comments are harsh, I wouldn’t want to eat it from the bin either, the recycling bin probably but if it delivered to my general waste bin I wouldn’t eat them, surprised so many would!

Good job it was the garden waste bin then, not the general waste bin, wasn’t it?

I would be funny about that as well tbh but depends what was in there, ours is food and garden waste so no I wouldn’t eat it

Oh and i do have ocd too, it won’t get better op. Get some help now. Don’t make life harder for yourself.

@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.

Oh come on, there would be tons on here complaining I've got a new norm and they expect me to get a bus to the sorting office!

You're being ridiculously precious.

the issues are 1) it being okay for the delivery driver to designate my bin as a safe place without our say so

God almighty ...

Yanbu. I do wish postmen would stop putting things in bins. It’s grim and upsetting. I’d much rather have stuff taken back to the post office as it’s their actual job to do.

My friend even had a parcel thrown away by bin men who, quite reasonably, thought stuff in the bin must be rubbish.

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If anyone has issues with bins, you can get parcel boxes things cheap nowadays

@Skysblue

Yanbu. I do wish postmen would stop putting things in bins. It’s grim and upsetting. I’d much rather have stuff taken back to the post office as it’s their actual job to do.

My friend even had a parcel thrown away by bin men who, quite reasonably, thought stuff in the bin must be rubbish.

Upsetting? Dear God in heaven 🤦‍♀️

@PurpleCurtain

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.

Loosely wrapped in paper? Course they were!

@PumpkinKlNG

I do think the comments are harsh, I wouldn’t want to eat it from the bin either, the recycling bin probably but if it delivered to my general waste bin I wouldn’t eat them, surprised so many would!

For gods sake, it's not eating from a bin!

That's eating leftover sandwiches that aren't wrapped.

And no you wouldn't rather starve than do that and you wouldn't let your children starve either.

Do you understand the pain of starvation.....

I don't think so.