To think delivery driver was rude/strange?

[Lamont77]

Neighbours weren't in for their parcel, so delivery driver rang my doorbell (which is quiet in some parts of house so I guess I didn't hear it) then starts banging on the door.

I answer it. I have endometriosis, was in bed with pain today as period started. So was in a long dressing gown which completely covered me.

Anyway, he was really rude. Said 'oh, how are you today!? Did I wake you up!?' I said no, he asked it again twice. I said no. Then he said do you work nights, I didn't reply.

He said do you work night shift again and weirdly I just said yes so he would leave lol. He said are you a nurse or something!? I said no. He said where do you work? I lied and said supermarket (didn't want to tell him anything).

He said which supermarket? I lied and named a supermarket.

He then asked for my name (which I think is probably normal considering it isn't my parcel).

But why so many questions 🤦‍♀️ I didn't want to say oh I have endo, I'm in bed with hot water bottle and meds. Just so unnecessary, just give me the parcel and leave 😂 AIBU to think this is strange/rude?

Not friendly to quiz someone on their doorstep it's as creepy as fuck!

He wants to know if you’re at home or not, so next time there’s a parcel for the street he’ll come straight to you with all of them and save 10mins. DH used to get this a lot. One day he received 20 Asos deliveries from the driver!!

I have quite a long drive and a discrete little camera over the door, which alerts me as soon as a van pulls up outside. I am usually on the step to greet the driver and accept the parcel when expecting a delivery. They often look quite surprised.

Even more irritating bearing in mind it wasn't even your parcel!

I remember once a delivery guy banged on my door so loudly at about 11am I thought it was the police. I was still asleep because, I'm an adult, I can do what I want and we were all still tired that day (me, partner and our daughter). And when I answered in my shirt and underwear he asked if he woke me. And I said yeah you did actually, you woke my whole house up. What were you thinking knocking so loudly on my door? It's just a package, nothing that fucking special. And he looked super embarrassed and said sorry and jogged off back to his van. I hate the entitlement people can have for you in your own house. Like OK I ordered something, you're doing your job but I have a safe place to leave it, a sign on my door telling you where and what even makes you think I'm home and not at work?? /Rant. You shouldn't feel the need to lie. Maybe you should have just said that you had started your period and were having a a heavy flow day. You know, they asked 🤷‍♀️.

I would imagine it was just harmless chit chat.. He was just picking up that you were in a dressing gown, and asked a few friendly questions, that may have indicated that you worked nights etc etc, He was just one of those quick fire chatty people, that's how their minds work.

Some are just annoying, nosey bastards mind you but I tend to cut them short and would have said something along the lines of “Yeah I'm not feeling too well anyway leave it with me I'll make sure they get it later cheers” and left little open for him to come back and work with.

We're lucky in having a pretty regular set of courier drivers and posties who from around this time of year up until Christmas Eve won't eve bother to knock at the door half the time for what will be a steady stream of parcel deliveries. Husband starts making sporadic Christmas present buys and they arrive in fits and starts from October.

If I hear the front door open and slam shut again quickly, I know there's an Amazon package in the hallway which wouldn't do for a lot of people but it works perfectly for me.

The one weird experience I just remembered was the week before Christmas last year. Door opened and slammed shut and I went in the hallway and found a small black bin liner with what looked like a dead animal shoved and stuffed inside it.

Have the photos someone but honestly it was packaged in the tiniest, thinnest flimsy black bin liner I wouldn't attempt to pick up a dog turd with and had something sticking out the side which even my dogs weren't keen to get nearer until I realised what it was.

Ordered some large plush seals and it was sent via Hermes in this crap plastic bag too small to fit it all in so one of its flippers was sticking out the bottom and its nose and squashed head partially stuck from the side. It had been kicked around, stood on and needed washing and drying before I could wrap it up all I imagined was them booting the crap out of the plush seal like Ace Ventura delivering a fragile package.

Legit looked like someone had bowled a dead animal underarm right through the door and down my hallway.

I would have taken a picture of the package details for the courier and tracking number, just incase anything comes of this later.