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?

@dearfanny

Good lord!

Do not waste that perfectly edible food. You neurotic, paranoid fool

Donate to a food bank if you're THAT fussy

Lmfaooooo dear god I love this comment 😂😂😂

YABU 100%
You say you are worried about mould getting through, yet you could leave them there for eight hours for your partner to come home and get them. If it was a case of mould getting through you could have got them as soon as you were free.

You are also BU to be critical of the delivery driver for putting it there. They don't know what's in your package and also are extremely busy. Most people would prefer not to have to go to the sorting office to get there's. Also don't see the issue with them opening a gate and put it at your back door either.

As others have pointed out, your food sees a lot more around it in the supermarket than it will in that bin likely.

@iklboo Thanks for pointing this out:

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.

I also looked at your threads from January on and I regret my jokes earlier. You are clearly very anxious over a number of cleaning/ contamination/ danger to baby issues. In the gentlest possible way, please get help for your anxiety. Serious medical help. Talk to your MH care provider / GP and just list all the things you posted here which you thought could harm you or your baby. The bars are the least of your problems. The environment you are creating is not healthy for you or your baby and will cause damage. Please get help.

*food bank not good back

@KT727

I can't believe the vast majority of people would happily eat from a bin.

There is a difference between eating a cereal bar from the bin, where the cereal bar is unsealed or come into direct contact with the bin contents and eating a cereal bar that has been sealed in a wrapper which was sealed in a box that was put on the top of a garden waste bin

I’d Chuck the bars and just eat the box .............mmmmm mould ! 😋

If you are worried about the cereal bars, @PurpleCurtain, it is perfectly reasonable for you not to eat them. Your Dh can eat them, so they won’t go to waste, and you can get yourself some more.

I don’t think there is anything wrong with avoiding something that is triggering your OCD. I hope you are getting the help you need so that, in the longer term, it doesn’t get to control or spoil your life - but in the short term, there is only so much anyone can do, and if eating these cereal bars is a step too far for you, then avoiding the stress sounds like a good idea to me.

The Royal Mail are not going out of their way to upset you - this is an extremely manageable problem. You knew you had an order coming and clearly it is important to you where it would be left if you did not accept it in person. Why didn't you set up a 'preferred safe place' to let them know that and save yourself the anxiety?

It really pisses me off when Royal Mail put stuff in bins. They did this to us once when we were on holiday, luckily we had friends looking after our house who fished it out, otherwise the parcel would’ve gone to landfill. I emailed them to complain.

They will be fine You have had a baby You aren’t ill you could have got them in quicker Flowers and manure certainly won’t harm you

I don’t see an issue with eating the cereal bars - they haven’t come into direct contact with anything nasty. Having said that, I do take issue with RM and various other couriers delivering things to a bin store. Amazon courier delivered early one morning during the lockdown and left a note through my door saying parcel was in the wheelie bin at the front of the house. Unfortunately the wheelie bin was at the front of the house ready for our bin collection that day and I didn’t get the note until after the bins had been emptied. Bloody infuriating.

If you’ve previously had OCD and now you’ve got a new born and having such worries about parcels in bins I would really suggest you contact your GP and chat about how you are feeling. A quick intervention or some CBT may get it under control before these thoughts may spiral.

LOL

I agree that a bin is not a safe place to leave a package, I've had parcels left in a bin on bin day...Needless to say it wasn't there when I got home.

But I think you are being irrational to not want them in your house or to not eat them, the cereal bars would be in a plastic wrapper, wrapped in paper, in a box...mould can't get through all of that.

My friend (and it genuinely was my friend, not me) had an ASOS parcel left in her brown bin. It was the day after collection, so the bin was completely empty, and she had to kind of climb inside it on its side to retrieve the package. So I think you are in a better place, really!

Please tell me I'm not the only one who's gone on a health kick and binned something like half a multipack of crisps and then fished them out of the kitchen bin that night? (Foodbank obviously wont take open packs).

Your box has probably been stomped over in some warehouse by a rat, carried by a delivery person that hasn’t washed their hands after a pee and then thrown in the back of a van where someone has stood with dog shot under his shoes and you’re worried about a triple packed product being contaminated by your flowers.

Ok

Get a grip. They were wrapped and were then in a box. What possibly could have happened to them??

Was it in a plain box? Did RM now it was food.? Not that it really matters and the individually wrapped bars were in a box that was possibly in another box. Anything in the bin would not have made contact with the bars

@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.

Why did it sit for 8 hours, could yoú not have popped out and got it after feeding your child

I'm also sorry. I think you need to talk to your GP about your health anxiety. It sounds very difficult

I think you were expecting a reporter to see this thread so you can pull a compo face in the sun

Because breakfast bars aren't sold loosely wrapped in paper, they come in sealed plastic wrappers

Depending on the type of snack bar and what time of the month it was, I would even consider retrieving and eating it if it fell unwrapped directly into the mouldy flowers and green waste.

I hate to tell you this OP but your newborn will be eating dirt from the garden when your back is turned before too long.