Supermarket delivery early Sunday AM

[Perry13579]

My neighbours get their groceries delivered between 7am and 8am on Sunday mornings. It's a terraced street with narrow houses so effectively the van is parked right under my window (which of course last night was open due to the heat). Ten minute of noisy shuffling crates around wakes the whole house up every time and it royally pisses me off. AIBU?

I will get a food delivery whenever I want. Some of us do shift work or very long hours and only time can get a delivery is early or very late. YABU 7am till 8am is fine

Anyone else thinking of the Park Life lyrics by Blur?! 😅😅

YABVU

Complain to the supermarket for offering the slot in the first place

Yabu.

Yabu

The early Sunday morning slot is usually significantly cheaper than later slots. Is there any other purchase where you would expect someone to spend more for your convenience?

If you live on a street of terraced houses, that comes as a package of hearing the hussle and bustle of life. It's obvious that any given dozen families are all going to have different weekly routines and will keep a range of hours so everyone is going to have some times when their own household is quiet but other families are living their lives at full throttle. It's part of city living. You wear earplugs at the times you want quiet but your environment isn't.

The vast majority of people living in London live in terraced streets with little or no front garden!

You're being a drama queen.

If a supermarket offer the slot it isn't unreasonable to use it.

Too bad then. When you chose to live in a cramped London street you accept there will be city living hustle and bustle.

This I do agree with. I wouldn't mow a lawn before 9am on a Sunday (probably 10am actually) and neither would I sit out in the garden talking after 10pm on a school-night .... but the supermarkets seem to deliver 7am-11pm seven days a week. I get everyone's routines are diffent but it is annoying to be woken when you don't want to be. Whether it fits in with your own schedule or not, Sunday is still different to the other days of the week.

You're right! I am indeed rudely awakened by the dustmen, usually c.6am on Wednesdays!

I assume this is what the neighbour is thinking, get it done and leave the day free. She is at home most of the week though, so it doesn't have to be be Sunday AM. I would just prefer a weekday when I'm up anyway! Or even Saturday to be honest.

I wouldn't say anything to her - she would think I was mad. She is the kind of person who does exactly what she wants and wouldn't consider how it affects anyone else (yes, this is not the first / only thing).

I don't know about the price of the slots as I don't use the supermarket she does. Tesco round here is a fixed £5.50 whenever you have it.

Wake up, wait ten minutes until they’ve gone, go back to sleep. Problem solved.

YABU

Suck it up!

YABU. I often use that slot as it's cheaper and generally available. Get earplugs.

I think it's fine. I'm not an early riser so wouldn't book a 7am myself, but I don't mind being woken up. If I manage to stay awake I get a bonus long day.

Wouldn't dream of asking them to change their delivery time.

Lol threads like this are peak mumsnet. YABU. We get early morning deliveries before work etc. I work a 7 day, 24h shift pattern, as do lots of other people. Also the slots at an earlier time are cheaper and more readily available. Since when is 7am antisocial?

@Miscellaneousme Id put 7am in the same territory as 11pm. It’s definitely borderline anti social but not ridiculous.

Would all the early risers be ok with noise at 11pm, or would you be slightly annoyed about it if you’d being woken up (as OP is).

It’s ok for OP to be annoyed about it! What would be unreasonable would be OP to go round and demand the slot is changed.

You're obviously not suffering from perimenopausal insomnia! Once I'm awake, whether it's 4am or 7am, there is no chance of getting back to sleep.

This is exactly as I see it. If we were out chatting and drinking in the garden at 11pm and keeping next door's kids awake, they would be within their rights to ask us to keep quiet or please go inside.
But I wouldn't be noisy outside after dark, and neither would I get regular deliveries at 7am on a weekend.

@Perry13579 I don't know about the price of the slots as I don't use the supermarket she does. Tesco round here is a fixed £5.50 whenever you have it.

£5.50! You could buy a mumsnet chicken and feed a family for a week on that. I pay £1 for "saver" delivery slots

Earplugs!

Can you park your own car under your own window?

There’s always something though wherever you live…at the moment for us, there’s a particularly loud demented bird every morning from the crack of dawn!

So yes, earplugs!

Agree that noise is all part and parcel of living in a terraced London street, but so then, is consideration for the people you live cheek by jowl with.
If we were all making a racket outside of "normal" hours, no one in the road would ever get any sleep! It's bad enough with all the building work going on down here 6 days a week - they might not start til 8am but they all turn up, run their engines and start unloading or making calls by 7.30am.... That's why Sundays feel too precious to lose.

There's no choice in price at Tesco here. Sainsbury's sometimes is only £3-4 but the groceries tend to be a bit more expensive.

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