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To stop being the street post lady …

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Crazycakelady17 · 29/03/2022 12:36

Bit of background not to drip feed, we live in a Cul-de-sac of 10 houses I’m the only occupant who’s regularly at home during the day, all bar one work out of the home and the other works shifts.
It started off with my taking the odd parcel for the direct neighbours all fine it wasn’t often but it’s now worked into I’m literally the street post lady the local couriers know I’m in 95% of the time and don’t even try the direct neighbours anymore just knock at the intended house then walk over to mine.
It’s got ridiculous now I took 3 in yesterday, it’s most days too
I want to start saying no but really struggle to do so to both the couriers and the neighbours I struggle with mental health and quite severely hence my being home most of the time this includes periods of bad insomnia so sometimes go back to sleep in the morning after a bad night once my DD 13 has gone to school and am awoken a fair bit,
I don’t want to go into details about why I don’t want to keep up the current status quo the mental health/sleeping in the morning/being in my bloody pjs at 11am ..
Sorry for essay and I know No is a complete sentence on MN, I just don’t want to ostracise myself from the neighbours even more and what do I do put a note through the doors? Bit extreme? WhatsApp group but not everyone’s on there, This has really been affecting my mental health and anxiety

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sueelleker · 29/03/2022 16:30

@WildfirePonie

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Grab these and stick them on your front door OP.

I can't guarantee the drivers will read them; my front door opens outwards, and I've got 3 stickers at various heights saying so- they STILL leave parcels on the doormat!
MistySkiesAfterRain · 29/03/2022 17:09

They get used to knowing you are in. I was a bit off with the post lady - oh god not again - and it has stopped. They won't knock if they know it will be a grumpy answer!

MistySkiesAfterRain · 29/03/2022 17:10

You don't want to be too rude as they will sometimes try and drop your deliveries with neighbours though.

c190 · 29/03/2022 17:26

I usually take in parcels for neighbours - although one neighbour obviously refused to take one in for me, the delivery person actually wrote on the card that they had asked no. X and they had said "no I am not taking it in, it is not my problem". Wasn't even large either.
I mean, it is true, but still.

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