To think the amazon delivery man was being unreasonable

[sparkleshin]

I didn't want to answer the door for a delivery, I was cooking lunch. It was a multipack of toothpaste through amazon, less than £10, so not expensive. Rather than just leaving it at the front door, the delivery man went around the back where he could see me cooking 😐

I live in a flat and my front door is down a flight of stairs.
I get more annoyed when they don't knock on my door or in one instance, rush up my road do a circle opposite my front door and rush back to their vehicle, having never knocked at all. And had the bare arse cheek to say I wasn't in.
I have specific instructions now that ask them to knock loudly and wait or deliver to a shop near me.
A couple have even shown a brain cell and rang my phone.
Why not just buy your toothpaste from a local shop next time so you don't get so grumpy about someone doing their job

This seems to be a real thing here on MumsNet, but I don't understand it at all. So please help me out : why oh why do people Not Want To Open The Door. Unless you're really ill, or stark naked, or it's the middle of the night etc. ........ what reason do people have to nót open the door. So imagine you're at home, you hear the bell or a knock on your frontdoor, and then you think : náh, let's not answer the door. Why?!? Even if they know it 's the delivery of an item they ordered themselves.

😂😂😂 how was he to know it was just toothpaste, could have been expensive jewellery for all he knew. Poor guy can’t win, tries to leave it in a safe place you moan, leave it on the front door step, it’s gets stolen, you moan

I answer the door if I am expecting a delivery.
Otherwise I don't bother unless I know someone is coming round.
Why? Because I WFH and don't want to be getting up and down to go to the door for things that I know will be of no relevance to me whatsoever. And in the evenings, again, I don't want to go to the door to have to deal with cold-callers, when I might already be in pyjamas, just out of the shower, in bed, eating, engrossed in hobby, on the phone to someone etc.

Where I live, the doorbell goes several times a day (I'm abroad). We get

1. Jehovah's Witnesses very regularly

2.Charity chuggers 3.The Red Cross trying to get you to sign a standing order form 4.Delivery people delivering to other people (who I know for a fact are in the house and refusing to answer... and as I said above, I answer the door when I know I am receiving a delivery. Wouldn't be an arsehole and not bother answering in the hope they would deliver elsewhere) 5.The people who deliver frozen bread from a catalogue (and the frozen veg people and the fresh veg people). One of them was exceedingly rude to me once when I mistakenly answered the door because I refused to take the catalogue - was polite about it too, but I don't want to have frozen veg delivered to my door. Oh yeah, and the fresh eggs people - why would I want them, there's a farm round the corner which sells eggs from a fridge outside. That's where I get mine from. 6.People selling other shit door to door 7.People wanting to collect your unwanted household items/clothes/whatever

And I have a batshit neighbour who comes round to have a go about all kinds of things.

So nope, I don't answer the door if I am not expecting a delivery or a visitor. I don't get people randomly dropping in - everyone messages or rings first.
There is absolutely nothing of interest coming to my door and it's a pain in the arse having to answer to simply say "not interested thank you" or whatever.

Another absolute nutjob on Mumsnet.
I'm not sure some of these posts can actually be real.

If you were embarrassed to be caught out not answering the door, even you must think that on some level it's weird.

Some brands are not readily available in shops. I used to get mine off amazon until i discovered the brands in tkmaxx. I go in for a haul now and again

🤣🤣🤣 that has made me laugh and cheered me up no end, thanks!!!

That was to @VeridicalVagabond and your dog with the parcel between his paws!

@Gjendefloooo o.k., you are excused from opening the door 😅

Why were you cooking lunch? What’s up with a sandwich or whatever? Most people don’t have time to cook lunch

Wtf?

🤣🤣🤣 that'll give the call centre a good laugh!

@Gjendefloooo sounds very busy around your neck of the woods. We don't even get trick or treaters at Halloween because we are the last street in the village.

Only people who knock on our door are delivery drivers so I tend to just open the door. If I'm in bed or just coming out the shower I knock on the window and give them the thumbs up even I've just got a towel around me.

The delivery drivers are just doing a job.

Did laugh at OP being pissed off he saw her making lunch through her back window. I'm pretty sure it was a non event for him.

This post gave me a giggle. Oh to have such a life that someone seeing me cooking was a problem!

I'm mainly on Mumsnet for the comedy.

I don't mean me.

I mean the batshit posts from people like the OP.

Its very rude to just not answer the door.

Thinking about this again after my courier ignored a ROAD CLOSED EXCEPT FOR ACCESS - DIVERSION----> sign and just straight up didn't deliver my Gousto box. Now I have to squeeze in an unplanned food shop somewhere. I wish he'd taken a bit of initiative, instead of wasting the food.

@Hmmmbetterchangethis

this! Fgs 😆 I can’t even 🙈

You asked for a parcel to be delivered and you’re cross because the delivery man went out of his way to be helpful and deliver the thing YOU ASKED to be delivered!!
You are being unreasonable and arrogant!

You sound utterly ridiculous

Yeh it's unreasonable if you don't answer you don't want to have your space invaded at that moment in time. All the people answering that you are unreasonable clearly have the dullest sex lives ever.

Of course we all have 😂.

Where as @Cocolebombom is shagging all over their house with the curtains open everyday. Cool story!

@sparkleshin was cooking their lunch and was mortified. They sound more like a lights off only in the bedroom kind of person.

Ha ha ha - customer asked for parcel to be delivered and man tried to deliver parcel. - What fresh hell is this ? Did you say when you ordered OP - leave it by front door if no answer at front door or at a neighbours. - give the man a break . He was not to know what was in that parcel - that's your job.