Embarrassed in front of Amazon delivery people

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Currently sick at home-messy pj bottoms tucked into socks, oversized, old striped jumper, hair scraped back…anyone else hate having to sign for Amazon type packages?! I have to walk to my gate too. Today, young done up woman, sure she was thinking ‘Lazy cow’ 🙈😫

I thought there was something embarrassing in your order, then.

PuttingDownRoots · Today 13:20

I often get odd looks. Like... This house? Again? With another massive box?

God yes, we get multiple deliveries EVERY DAY here - the amount of couriers up and down the drive 😂I've given up being embarrassed by it now. I know them all by name and they all know the names of our pets!

Some of it is business related (printers, construction tools for DH ect) but honestly most of it is generated by my 3 young adult DDs and myself Could be anything from seedlings to lipstick to wallpaper to bras. In it all comes!

No matter what you look like in real life the amazon proof of delivery photos always make you look like a goblin.

They delivered a heavy parcel and put it by my front door and snapped a pic of my feet as I opened the door. My toes looked like big old fat sausages.
I won’t let it bother me too much, I will probably invest in some foot cream 🤷🏽

Oh god the photos!
One snapped me starting to squat and reach down to get the parcel off the mat and i look like a weird bloody ape at the door!

DD received the pic off the courier (her item) and was laughing her head off at her desk - so everyone in the office got a look at her ape mother 🙄 😆

Crikey, mine never stay long enough to even see me open the door, and haven't been asked to sign for anything since pre-covid!

They literally won't give a shit as long as the parcel is delivered. They are so busy with big targets to reach so all they care about is delivering. What you are wearing/look like won't even be on their radar

You are overthinking your importance to them. Your outfit choice might be important to you but a busy delivery person has other things on their mind than whether your hair was pulled back.

Unless you were in the nude I doubt it was a memorable interaction for them.

If I'm ill I try not ordering anything to avoid exactly this! 🤣

This is literally me, I'm always cold and wfh so even when I'm dressed I've had my dressing gown on in the house.
I just try not to dwell on what they think of my appearance.

I always reply to that one with "I work nights" I don't

It shuts them up.

Why do you care. If I'm in better condition than this they've just caught me on a good day..

I guarantee you that they don't notice or care - they're under way too much pressure to make their delivery schedule to pay any attention to what you're wearing or what your hair looks like!

DH came home to find me with a boob out many time unbeknown to myself when I was cluster feeding DS in the early days.

He is 100% sure I probably answered the door like that at some point. I would have been holding DS so hopefully it made sense

I thought you were going to say a massive dildo fell out the box! 😂

@Megifer at least he didn't pat the puppy too 🤣

The only thing they care about is doing their job and reaching deadlines. They probably don’t even notice what you’re wearing. And even if they did I doubt you’re the worst they’ve seen even that day.

When I did deliveries I just really didn’t care, like zero thoughts about it.
when I worked nights though I had a dick of a postie who would hammer on the door, everytime id answer in pjs, every fucking time he’d be like oh pjs lazy/oh still in pyjamas at this time etc “I work nights, as I’ve told you a million times” then we’d do the same the next delivery 🙄

'Those women were in the nip!' - Father Dougal

They don't care. They did care when trying to take a proof of delivery photo and my toddler tried to get in the photo wearing just her pants 😂

Your appearance isn't important to them. Why give it any thought?

They barely notice anyone - hand over parcel, bugger off, job done! Frankly you could be naked - they just have a job to do and crack on.

It is funny you say that as the drivers we get are not well put together at all. And they are working!!!!

Oh, they've seen it all. I work at home and seem to be the parcel repository not just for my neighbours in my building but for half the street. I'm on friendly terms (as in chat when I bump into them in the street) with an array of delivery couriers. I generally look like a bag lady as it's just me at home, no Zoom calls or anything. Honestly, they don't turn a hair.

In the nicest possible way - they do so many deliveries at just a few seconds per time - they likely won’t even remember you.

They must see hundreds of people over the course of the week...I think you'd have to wear something pretty unique to be anything other than a fleeting thought.

Worst case scenario, if they do talk about their deliveries, you're adding to a statistic of some/many/most people are in loungewear/pjs when I deliver.

Not that my Amazon driver could compile this data. Most are stepping off my drive/getting in the van as I open the door let alone waiting long enough to judge my outfit.

The ones that want a picture of the parcel though, do seem to pick a time where I'm at my most slovenly....