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?

Once upon a time I used to book the 6am Ocado slot. YABU

I get mine between 6.30 and 7.30 on a Sunday because I have a 3 and 1 year old and it works best for us.
Most of my neighbours are elderly and have vans slamming doors and doing work during the day when my children are sleeping which annoys me. But what can you do.

If I got asked to change my slot, I might consider it, depending on which neighbour had asked tbh. Some I like, some I dont. But id only move it maybe an hour later at most, if at all.
Gotta do what you gotta do.

That does seem very early for a grocery delivery but nothing you can do about it. They’re not doing anything wrong and I’m not sure they are being impolite either. Deliveries of all sorts happen early.

@Chatterboxy

can you explain why you think she's BU to be annoyed at being woken up?

For me it's how you frame it to yourself. This is especially important if you're already decided not to speak to her and, therefore, it is going to continue. Otherwise, the annoyance itself is what'll ends up being the worst of it.

As pp suggests, I'd use the time to go and get a cup of tea, take it back to bed to drink with a book and a little read. If I drop off back to sleep = great. if not, at least I've used the time to do something vaguely nice rather than lying there seething.

@IamnotSethRogan why not talk to them? They might be just as happy to get it at another time.

maybe they'll say they will/won't change slots, but nothing to lose by talking to them.

You really think you can govern your neighbours shopping habits?

@Perry13579

i was going to suggest talking to her, explaining the issue & asking nicely if she can consider any other slots. But you don't want to talk to her, so other than blocking the space they park in, you'll just have to see the quietly.

I used to get an early slot as I'm awake with the sun/chirping birds (hence being bloody tired & having huge bags under my eyes) but my neighbour recently retired and I've changed my slot so it doesn't wake her.

If I hadn't considered this myself, I wouldn't have minded her asking and I'd have changed it if possible or explained why I couldn't.

people getting pissy about being asked are strange to me. Asked not told! What's the problem??

What do you mean “happening to them”? Suffering through ten mins of delivery noise on a Sunday morning. I live in a terraced house and therefore have chosen to love cheek by jowl with other people simply living their life, so a certain amount of noise is to be expected. Also the delivery driver has a job to do.

Do you expect OP’s neighbours to canvass the entire street to find a time slot to work for all? My DP works nights, often on weekends too, and so noise later in the day disturbs him. However he’d never dream of policing other people’s lives! The entitlement is off the charts. Noise cancelling headphones are a wonderful
thing.

Yeah, but there's a minimum £40 order value before Ocado will accept the order😀

Offer to pay for a later delivery slot 😂

You should not use the horn on your car between the hours of 11:30pm and 7am in built up areas.

I'd say this gives a good indication of if YABU or not.

Yeah, it's a bit of a bugger when neighbourhood noise (of any kind) disturbs sleep. But it's not unreasonable to get early morning supermarket deliveries, even at the weekend.

My pet hate is slightly (or very) drunk people getting out of a taxi in the wee small hours and screeching at each other as they walk along to their own house (then drop something and shriek). I doubt very much that the delivery driver is shrieking

A fixed £5.50 is really expensive. Our Tesco delivery is £2 to £7 for a 1 hour slot, with the earlier ones and later ones tending to be the cheapest, and Weekends the most expensive.