To put a sign on my door telling delivery drivers not to leave parcels?

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I keep having deliveries nicked and it's getting to the point I think companies won't believe me!

For context I live on a terraced avenue, quite busy, with an alley way next to my house.

I don't have a front garden. My front door is directly on the public pavement.

So many companies just leave my parcels at the front door and take a photo. And very often they get nicked.

Anyone walking passed just has to reach down for my parcel then turn directly into an enclosed passage so perfect for an opportunistic tea leaf.

I've put it on all my accounts not to do this but they never listen.

Should I make a big bloody sign saying leave with neighbours?

Is there a pick up point you could select for delivery? For example, my local newsagents are a collection point for Amazon.

Check with your neighbours first that they would be happy to take in parcels for you.

This is probably a better option. There are lockers or parcel shops everywhere now

There must be a way of incorporating a parcel flap (bit like the old night safe for banks) into a modern uPVC front door. Especially with all this codes that are flying around. Driver rocks up, shows the door the code it's expecting, latch opens, pull out, drop parcel, close and lock.

This. Most companies will drop off at a local store or a locker where you can collect the parcel. They do this more often now because most people won't be home during delivery times.

Do you have a ring doorbell? It might deter the thief’s and when the delivery comes you can directly speak to them through the app on your phone and tell them to leave with a neighbour or re-deliver on a different day.

But no, you wouldn’t be unreasonable to put a sign up.

Yeah, get a parcel safe or use a collection point.

I feel your pain - I get cheery "we've delivered your parcel to your safe place" messages accompanied by a photo of it on my front door, clearly visible to anyone walking past.

Use the courier feedback option every time.

do you have to have deliveries?

i get deliveries and despite being on the high street, we do have a gate and a front garden, nothing has been stolen, but in your position i would pick up and not even order things that are delivered

Use a pick up point as PP’s have said. I get my deliveries sent to my workplace which solves my problem with delivery folk not reading instructions. It’s a bit off to expect your neighbours to deal with your deliveries though.

You need to use a pick up point. I use this most times as there’s a pick up point close to DC’s school so I don’t have to be at home for my deliveries and because I buy things a lot, I won’t expect my neighbour who works night to constantly be woken up to collect my parcel.

It would help an awful **ing lot, if all couriers could all share the same pickup points.

I have one that is a minutes walk from me that does eVRi and DPD, but not DHL which is a 10 minute walk.

Do your neighbours want to take your parcels in?

I would do what most people do and arrange delivery to a collection point. It's not the delivery drivers fault you're not in.

As a neighbour of someone who frequently had parcels delivered to my house, I have to say it's very annoying when not just a one off.

Yeah, as your neighbour I wouldn't take the parcel tbh. Use a pick up point.

How many parcels are we talking about here? One or two a minth? Three ir four times a week? Daily?

Are your neighbours happy to be your parcel drop off point? I am happy to take parcels in for any of my neighbours, but from some responses I've seen on Mumsnet, not everyone is, and it's seen as a terrible imposition.

If your neighbours are not happy being your drop off point, then what are your expectations of the delivery drivers? To hang onto your parcel, and return multiple times until they find you at home?

If your neighbours are happy, then can you not just put their address as the delivery address on your orders? Or if you work, is it possible to get parcels delivered there?

Or, as has been suggested by other posters, can you not just get them sent to local collection points, so you can collect when it's convenient for you?

This is what happens when couriers are paid pence to do a delivery no matter how many times they attempt it.

It's your problem to sort really as you don't have a safe space not that they take much notice of those either.

You need to get them delivered elsewhere so you know you can collect them.

Sorry, I should have said in OP, I can't use a collection point as I can't get there to collect them due to health issues, I don't leave the house much

All my shopping (food and other goods) is ordered online and delivered.

I can't alter the door as its rented accommodation.

Many times they don't even knock, so I don't even know it's out there and by the time I see the email or check the tracking it's been taken.

All my shopping (food and other goods) is ordered online and delivered.

There is a gap in the market for supermarkets to offer to act as delivery agents for vendors. Get your stuff delivered with your shopping.

I am going to bet that even Sainsburys and Argos manage to totally fail at this.

Get a ring doorbell then you know when the parcel is there

I’d do this. Too risky otherwise.

Many times they don't even knock, so I don't even know it's out there and by the time I see the email or check the tracking it's been taken

this sounds like someone is specifically watching your door. It's one thing having a parcel lying outside for a while and being nicked, but them being nicked within minutes of being delivered is bizarre. Make sure you have loud notifications on your mobile phone so you know the instant it has been delivered if you can't afford or aren't allowed to have a Ring doorbell.

normally companies ask if you have a safe space if you are not in.. if they then deliver it too your front door and leave it, then thats on them!

You are being very unreasonable to order goods for home delivery when you know you're not going to be there. You're being unreasonable expecting your neighbours to take in your parcels.

You need to make alternative arrangements. I.e. buy from online retailers who will deliver to a secure locker, a local shop, or a nearby supermarket/DIY store/Matalan, Argos, Asda, M&S, etc., so that you can go and collect. Or you need to buy locally from proper shops.

The problem here is that you're not in when the deliveries are made. It's up to you to make different choices.

Yes all of this

You could put a sign up, but they might not notice it.

Get a video doorbell, then at least if there's no workable solution like using a collection point you'll get an alert when someone's been to your door.

Well not really, bearing in mind the OP says she rarely leaves the house, it's that couriers don't knock.