Why don’t (some) delivery drivers ring the fucking doorbell

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I’ve missed another delivery this morning as apparently I wasn’t in.

i was in but the deliver driver DPD chose to only knock quietly on the door. If he’d rung the door bell it would have alerted me on my phone/watch and I would have answered. Now I have to wait until Monday to get a parcel that I needed for this weekend, which I will then have to return as I’ll have to go to the shops now to get said item.

although perhaps I’ve just answered my own question as no doubt the return will have to be done via DPD thus creating more chargeable work for them.

Ours don't ring or knock, they leave the parcel in full view of the street and put 'Handed to resident' on the delivery report!

Also it’s so annoying when it’s a parcel that would definitely just fit through the letterbox but they insist on knocking and saying you weren’t in.

Your Alexa has told them that you're on Mumsnet, so they assume you're hiding behind the sofa and won't come to the door anyway.

Our parcels are left in porch. If the parcel needs to be signed they knock. But I know to wait for them as they inform me approximately time they are coming. We haven’t had any issues with parcels.