Just USE THE DOORBELL

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Does anyone else have a doorbell (a Ring Doorbell no less) and people just don’t use it?! And use the knocker instead? It drives me nuts as 1. The knocker isn’t as loud and 2. If I’m unable to answer, if they use the ring doorbell, I can speak to them. Can’t do that if they knock!

Just missed a Royal Mail parcel, didn’t even hear anyone at the door. Checked my footage and no ring, just a half arsed tap with the knocker.

I'm sorry OP, it's my fault. I have a ring doorbell but often forget to switch my phone off silent. It's mlstly there for a cheap bit of security. Although most here still use the doorbell and knock.

I have a doorbell; lovely Victorian brass bell pull, fabby old ding-a-ling bell, but will they use it, they will not. They say that doorbells never work, well they certainly won't if you don't try them. So they either knock so gently and I don't hear it or they give it a rapping great policeman's knock and scare the bejesus out of me. Or else they do a silent drop, and the first I know about it is the email saying my parcel has been delivered. And if they do knock only once, I assume it's Mr Upstairs clattering down the stairs as only he can and ignore it.

Not in my own life, but this is something that drives me crazy on tv shows. The doorbell is never used - people always just knock on the door (the actual door, not a knocker). And no matter how large the house is, the door is answered quickly.

Sorry for the off topic rant!

This. I hate it when I can't hear the bell ring when I press the button. I always prefer the knocker.

We deliberately don't have a bell ourselves.

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it is bizarre, my front door is wide open (as in held open with a door stop) (90% of the time I'm home (no lectures please) and it opens into the hallway between the lounge & kitchen
(where I am most of the time). & on the odd occasion it's closed there's a big knocker (arf arf) that wakes the dead in the next village over. Yet I still get 'you were out' messages.

what they mean is 'didn't even come to your house'

i do send messages with photos when I can, but it's not always possible.

Drives me MAD.

We solved this issue by buying what I can only describe as a violently urgent 'everybody-leave-your-belongings-get-out-of-the-building-and-line-up in-the-car-park!' fire bell...
It's horrendous and so loud, it'll perforate your eardrums at 200 metres 😖
Postie is used to it now, but when I first opened the door to him after we fitted it he just said "what the fuck??" 😂
I still jump out of my skin whenever anyone rings it 😭

I don't have a knicker. I do have a doorbell (not a ring one). People still knock instead of ringing. Drives me nuts.

Every damned day. It drives me insane. I stuck my head out of the bedroom window once at the retreating backside of a delivery person and shrieked do you know what a doorbell is!!!!

I've noticed with my ring door bell is that some people just walk up to the door and wait because I presume it flashes so they think its sensed them and they don't need to press the bell. I do get the notifications through when it senses them. Some still just knock on the door, or sometimes they'll do both.

It’s more because they don’t know whether the bell is working. Not everyone has a bell which you can hear from outside. They don’t have time to ring, wait around, then knock in case the bell wasn’t working - better to go straight to the knock

I will always ring first, but if you can't hear the bell and no one has come within a minute or so then I resort to knocking. I much prefer a nice old lion head knocker that has a solid THUNK!

My delivery drivers drive me nuts, they ring the bell multiple times, which you can hear outside so I can definitely hear it inside & they rap the knocker repeatedly despite being asked not to as I have a baby! 1 ring us enough!!!

It’s weird isn’t it. Just ring the bloody bell.

I'm not a delivery driver, but when I've gone to neighbours' doors I find it very uncomfortable to use the ring doorbell knowing I'm about to be video-recorded.

I bought a 20cm square sign which says: "Please do not knock on the door - please use the doorbell" last year from eBay. It has largely worked and the (black) door is no longer sustaining damage from the aggressive thumping it previously received.

Ring doorbells are always bloody flat, in my experience. I suspect that's why people knock!

At my old flat I had an intercom. Almost everyone knocked on the door and wondered why I didn't answer.

People don't like Rings and will do everything they can to avoid using it. We have recently switched from a regular doorbell to a ring and no one uses it now, we get people knocking on the window which we don't hear.

I just set it up to detect any movement but we have a long driveway so it isn't always going off.

Most leave safe deliveries drivers don't have to knock, they can drop and go even if you are in.

I have the old fashioned style mains wired doorbell rather than a Ring doorbell. I don't have any issues with people not using it.

Ring doorbells are so often flat, and i don't think people like being recorded or want to have a conversation with someone through it. I imagine for delivery drivers in a rush they're more hassle than they are worth

We don't have a knocker, just the doorbell. People still just knock with knuckles on the door...idiots

Any chance it’s a doorbell that makes no sound to the person who presses? Because then people might assume it’s broken!

Well this thread is very interesting. We have noticed that almost nobody rings our doorbell any more. Like others a knock is not heard throughout the house as the doorbell is.

We had no idea at all why all of a sudden the bell is being ignored but some of these answers is helping us to understand the possible motivation.

Because drivers often just drop the parcels and run we leave our porch open so those items won't be stolen from outside but it does allow them to enter the porch and knock on our front door.

I wonder what would happen if the porch was locked as it used to be. Would they just knock on the porch door. We definitely wouldn't be able to hear it then.

Knocker and doorbell and 90% of the time people just bang on the door in a manner my 12 year old describes as "FBI OPEN UP"

Or Amazon just yeet the parcel at the door's general direction and leg it

Yes, it's not so much the bell I think, it's having to have a convo with the resident. I feel that way too, as they can see me, but I can't see them! But whatever.

I've no issue (yet!) with deliveries. A sliding porch door that I leave open a crack when I know a delivery is due. Parcels are placed in the porch and I get an email with a picture of it sitting on my mat! Rarely get a doorbell user either, but it's not a problem. I like having it to see who or if anyone is outside.

I don't have a knicker

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