Delivery van parking on a drive

[FawnFrenchieMum]

Acceptable or not?

Drive off a fairly busy main route. Van pulls onto the drive (blocking in a car if it matters), delivers your parcel, then delivers 2/3 parcels to neighbours within 3-4 houses either side before driving off?

Transient parking from a delivery driver who is going to make it their business to be gone ASAP so they can keep up with their route and is actually delivering to my home too - nope couldn't get wound up about that.

Delivery drivers that knock down walls, tear up lawns, knock down fences, drive through bushes etc - those fuckers I take exception to because unless you catch them on camera doing it getting the company to agree to repair/replace is a nightmare.

Wouldn't give an arse, tbh. The schedules of delivery drivers are utterly HORRENDOUS. I think it's DHL whose app tells you how many deliveries before yours, and the drivers are doing dozens in an hour. Cut them some slack.

Wouldn't bother me. Delivery drivers occasionally do it with us but they're gone within 5 minutes and don't cause a problem.

@Ourlady

Initially I thought you had said over the drive but realise its actually on the drive. I wouldn't want a delivery van parking on my drive even if they were delivering to my house especially if they are blocking my car in.

You don't even want them parking on your drive when the parcel is for you? What do you expect them to do? Should they park down the road so you don't have to see their van or what?

Absolutely not an issue, they are so overworked. I’d just be glad to get my parcels.

Wouldn’t bother me at all.

What you YOU think he should do?

If I didn't need to move my car for that few minutes it wouldn't be a problem although I was not impressed the time I had to rush away from work to collect a vomiting child from school and got to my house to find a parcel company van parked across my drive and the driver nowhere in sight leaving me having to drive up and down the street, with vomiting child in the car, until he eventually reappeared from the next street and moved the van.

We are in a similar situation. I never even thought about it, I'd have thought it crazy if he got back in his van to move to the neighbours houses and the houses across the road. They just chuck the deliveries at the houses, they're only there 2 min

Wouldn't bother me.....they have so many drops to do that it makes sense to me.
Unless it stopped me getting out of course!

For me not acceptable.
Delivery guys can be CF. We had a period of them putting our neighbours parcels behind our car on the drive, it's a narrow space to walk down with big boxes.

Of course it’s acceptable.

Do you expect the driver to move to the next drive for the next parcel, then next door for the next, etc?

Is this a reverse? Do you have NDNs with maniac territorialism?

Not a reverse again.

A classic mumsnet thread picking on the great unwashed.
"A horrible working class delivery driver parked his dirty great van on my drive way and now I need a Karcher to get it clean again".

I had this a couple of weeks ago. Issue was that I was sitting in my car on my driveway ready to pull out. Delivery driver sees me and just parks across my dropped curb drive anyway . I beep him. He starts with the aggressive mime ( well he was probably shouting but I could hear being sat in my car). A full 2 minutes later he pulled forwards to let me out.
The stupidity of him was that there was space outside my neighbours house, (who he was delivering to), my house ( excluding drive) or actually any part f the road without dropped curbs. No one in road on our close as all have drives.
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@dworky

Should not be parking & stopping on someone's drive.

Even if he's delivering a parcel to the owner of the drive?

@GutsInMay

Of course it’s acceptable.

Do you expect the driver to move to the next drive for the next parcel, then next door for the next, etc?

Is this a reverse? Do you have NDNs with maniac territorialism?

Have you read all the OP's posts?

Sounds very sensible and reasonable to me.

I've seen how quick they are and I reckon that would only be a minute or two. It's a really tough job, and if that makes it a bit safer for all I think it's a good idea. Sometimes they have to park over our drive to deliver to next door anyway.

@GutsInMay @ChardonnaysPetDragon @OfMinceAndMen

As you’ve not bothered reading my other posts, it wasn’t a reverse and it wasn’t my drive. It was a neighbour moaning about it, he came to mine as one of the other delivers.

To answer a few other questions, he didn’t park across her drive, he parked ON the drive. There was road side parking available.

I definitely don’t have an issue with ‘dirty working class’ people. My DH is in the building trade and parks his ‘dirty’ van on my drive and outside my house every night.

Your neighbour needs to get a life. How are people bothered by such nonsense?!

It walks like a reverse and it quacks like a reverse...

@ChardonnaysPetDragon, OP said a long time ago that it was a neighbour objecting, not her.

She's sad and mean-minded.
Perhaps she needs some real problems to get a clearer perspective on things.

I thinknyour life must be pretty stress free if you are worried about this.

Fine by me as long as the van isn't pissing oil over a nice brick or block paved drive or something.