To get a box for deliveries

[TwoCoffeesPlease]

Okay I probably am being hugely unreasonable here but:

We moved this year and are doing a lot of work on the house. We also moved from a rented flat which we furnished piece meal with freebies, second hand bits and old stuff from childhood bedrooms. Now we have our lovely house we have been buying everything new from furniture to appliances to small decorative items. At the same time we have a lot of DIY related purchases to make and there are always purchases we end up needing to make that we didn’t plan for e.g. friends have decided they want to stay over next week when they come for dinner so we have had to buy proper bedding for the sofa bed.

This on top of every day Amazon prime crap adds up to a lot of deliveries, we probably get one every day and sometimes several times a day. I know they are just doing their job and I ordered the stuff but I am getting sick of being constantly interrupted to answer the door. Sometimes they ring the doorbell constantly just to have dumped the parcel and gone when you get to the door anyway.

WIBU to just get a box for delivery people to put parcels in and collect them when I want/need them?

You can try. Not sure how well it would work in practice. I find the alternative delivery instructions are mostly either unread or ignored.

We have one. Best thing ever.

Just make sure it doesnt look like a recycling box as we had our ‘delivery’ box mistaken for the recycled paper box and just delivered stuff was thrown away !

We have one outside our door and it works really well. It came with the house (previous occupant was elderly). Our drive is hundreds of feet long, up a country lane and behind electric gates so not too worried about theft or accidentally being mistaken for recycling as we have to drive our bins to the road as it is!

Huh I was really expecting to me told I was being unreasonable. I’m going to look into what I can get now

We use an old recycling box (from an old system, so no chance of it being recycled!) And it works really well and costs us nothing.

I found some lovely self adhesive stickers on Etsy for exactly this purpose

We have had a smart box for about four years now. It works well for letters and parcels. Sometimes it gets ignored but most of the time it is used.

YANBU

But for Amazon, you can reduce the number of deliveries by selecting "Amazon day". Then they group all your (non urgent) orders into one package twice a week.

We have one and every courier has commented how easy it is just to leave it in there

@SushiGo

We use an old recycling box (from an old system, so no chance of it being recycled!) And it works really well and costs us nothing.

This is us too! I have a little sign up beside the door asking for parcels to be left in the box - we both work from home but are often on calls so even with two of us we can’t always get to the door. It works brilliantly but partly because you can’t see it from the road and we are in a very quiet area so no issues of things being nicked before we get to them.

I have one of these, with a metal "parcel box" sticker on top
www.diy.com/departments/keter-city-wood-effect-garden-storage-box/7290112631466_BQ.prd
It's big enough for most parcels, wind and weather proof. I order online regularly and now all parcels just get left in there unless they specifically need a signature. Good for me, and good for the delivery folk as they can chuck it in and continue their rounds

My sister does it. She has a sign on the door saying if no answer to put deliveries in the box at the back.

What about using the Prime Day function, then all the items come together on one day rather than spread throughout the week. Better for the carbon footprint too :)