Amazon delivery driver came into my house

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I was laying on the sofa earlier watching tv, I had a notification that my Amazon parcel had been delivered.

I thought it was strange that I hadn’t heard anyone knock the door, I went to check the garden for the parcel and as I walked into the dining room I could see the parcel on the dining table.

It really creeped me out that the delivery driver came into my house, he/ she would’ve seen and heard the tv on, I cant understand why they didn’t knock the door or just throw the parcel into the house from the open door, there really wasn’t any need to come into the house.

I’m home alone this evening so I’m probably thinking about this differently than if there were others in the house with me, but its left me feeling really uneasy.

I’m thinking of reporting it to Amazon.

AIBU - it was a normal thing for the driver to do

IANBU - its weird that they came into my house

rubbish sketch of where I was, and where the parcel was left is attached, also where the parcel was placed on the table, the driver would’ve definitely have had to come into the house, there was no way it would’ve been where it was from being thrown in or them reaching from the door.

Lock your doors, particularly if you are alone. I always lock all the doors if everyone is in, I have been known to lock out DH if he's in the garden out of sight but that's another story. I got into the habit of locking all the doors when I was often the only one home, quite scary if you know you are the only one home, the doors are not locked, and you hear a noise downstairs when you are upstairs. I have a Yale and a dead lock on the front door, deadlock turned at night.

Yanbu.
I work from home and have a lot of deliveries. The other day my husband happened to be home and he came upstairs absolutely incredulous, saying that a delivery person had just opened the front door and put the parcel on the stairs!!

I said was it the yodel guy? He said yes, I said oh that's ok. I told him to do that whenever he delivers, saves me coming down.

He said oh that's fine, I thought he'd just decided to come in and I thought that was weird.

I wouldn't have said to him he was wrong for finding it weird! And you're not wrong for thinking it's not ok, because it's not ok for you. And it's your house and your delivery and it should be what you are comfortable with. Not what other people are comfortable with or what they think you ought to be ok with.

Our neighbours were burgled through an open door in the afternoon, they were all out of sight of the house in the garden and someone came down the very narrow side alley and in through the French doors, probably why I'm a little paranoid. If everyone is out at the top of the garden we lock the French doors behind us as well. Our houses all have very long gardens with a lot of trees and shrubs.

yabu for not locking your door.
you are lucky that this was only the delivery driver.
a yale type lock is a good addition to existing locks.

also check your home insurance. you might be out of pocket if someone burgles you if they can just open the door and walk in.

I don't doubt they exist, I've just never seen a front door without a latch. As I said above, they are normal on back doors, but all the front doors I've encountered have had latches. Including my own.

In your case, it makes sense as the main door has a latch, but the porch doesn't. I've seen that configuration many times too.

Of course they shouldn't just let themselves in. Nobody should. In an ideal world we could all sit in our own homes totally safely without needing to worry that some unwelcome visitor might let themselves in.

This is far from an ideal world.

There are people around who do/would simply let themselves into your property if the opportunity of an unlocked door presents itself. Thieves, burglars, people looking to pick up your car keys and drive off in it. Some of them would injure you (or worse) too.

Lock your doors. Don't make things easy for them. Common sense, or it should be.

The chances of getting locked out if the door locks automatically behind you are much higher. Yale type locks that do this are easy to pick and to force.

I think you can get eurocylinder locks that will lock on the inside handle alone but not 100% sure. The eurocylinder doors also tend to have additional latches that engage when you lift the handle making the door a lot more difficult to force.

The weakness of the eurocylinder is that it is easy to snap. So always buy one of the high security anti snap ones like ABS or Uliton.

Ah it is called a split spindle handle.

You can only open it from the outside with a key, whereas the inside can be open just with the handle.

The chances of getting locked out if the door locks automatically behind you are much higher

You only do it once though. Don't ask me how I know, I just know 🤣

Also, low quality euro cylinder locks are just as easy to pick.

My front door can only be opened from the outside with a key.

PIL just have one front door, no porch - but it’s just like our porch door. You have to raise the handle and turn the key to lock it. I thought they were common.

But the main point is to lock your doors, including your porch door if you keep branded coats in it. We used to only lock the porch door at night - until someone helped themselves to DH’s north face coat. Police told us that kind of theft was common.

Raising the handle engages the multipoint system. They come both in two flavours (with a latch or without), and sometimes are configurable so you can switch as suits you.

One of my previous houses was exactly as you describe, but had a latch so it would shut and latch from the outside so the handle could not be pressed down to open from the outside but could be from the inside. The handle could also be lifted to engage the multipoint system, then a turn of the key would lock it so that it couldn't be opened from the inside either without the key.

Apparently, this is too complicated for the hard of thinking, so manufacturers now make a thumbturn for the inside in order that a person could never be locked in. I get this from a fire escape perspective, however it does allow tealeaves to break in through a window and then open the door, so I actually prefer the type that can be locked in such a way as to require a key to open from either side. Thieves are more obvious when trying to pass stuff they've stolen from me through the window.

Like you, I prefer to lock my door, hence my preference for a latch as then I know door shut = cannot be opened from outside. I would change any door lock that didn't do this, but fortunately all the houses I have lived in have had this already, so i havent ever needed to. The only modification I've ever done is to upgrade the lock to a better quality one as they were often cheap locks. This was no bother as I always change the locks when I move in anyway.

I really miss having a door that had a yale lock

Same here. My house is about 20 years old and doesn’t lock when it shuts unless I click a little button in the drop frame

Do you lock your car..?

I know you shouldn’t have to.