Omg! Amazon driver just tried to come into my house!!!

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So I’m sat at home, on my own, reading.
Suddenly my front door is VERY forcibly trying to be opened, it made a huge racket and I immediately thought someone was trying to break in!
The door wasn’t locked, but thankfully I have a child safety latch on the door, which I always use.
I go to the door and can see through the glass it’s an Amazon delivery man.
I open the door, and ask what the hell he is doing, trying to get into my house.
He replies he does it all the time, and it’s my fault as my settings on Amazon say front door/porch.
I am fuming at this point, and tell him it’s totally unacceptable, I’m at home alone, and never have I had someone try to enter my house before to deliver a parcel!
After a few more choice words from me, he gives me the parcel and says he will be reporting ME!
Obviously I immediately reported it to Amazon, who are taking it very seriously.
As I said to them, I’m an assertive person who can stand up for themselves, what if the homeowner had been someone more vulnerable?
So am I being unreasonable to expect that delivery men DONT try to access your property?!

I'm not happy with random men trying to open my door either. That's why it is always locked.
A child safety latch is not the same as a lock.

Oh FFS
He couldn’t gain entry because the latch was on.
READ THE POST!

Really?
Well it stops my childminded children getting out and it stopped him getting him.
So pretty effective I’d say.

They’re really not. That’s just what they say to you to make you go away.

Did I say he was in there? i did not.
I said A woman with a strange man in her home is vulnerable.
This isn't rocket science.

Where did I miss that he even knew the OP was a woman
Yeah I'm guessing those parcel labels with names and addresses on aren't any help at all.

So there's no problem then. He tried the door. Couldn't get in. The end.

So there's no problem then, is there?

I am feeling a bit upset that you will never accept to tell us why the LATCH is so important here 😂

he couldn't gain entry
ok.. but NOT because the door was locked, but because the LATCH was on. The difference is critical.

No one can come in either way, but it seems to change EVERYTHING. Fascinating 😂

Yes, absolutely acceptable for a random man to try to open a random door having no idea who may be inside their own home, quietly minding their own business.

Are you drunk?

Please gods tell me there is a secret couriers blacklist. Amazon used to ban customers who were too much hassle, don't know if they still do.

If you are fine with a man aggressively trying to open your door, then being antagonistic when challenged about it, no problem at all.
Strangely enough I prefer to differ.
But you do you!

😂

I don't know why you are fixated with this LATCH issue, you are funny.

Reminds me of the snap and farted poster - who was not funny, but for her indignation and sense of self-importance.

He thought you had a porch. He just wanted to deliver your parcel. No need for all the dramatics.

In the OP you say that he said the instructions were front door/porch, then later on you say they were "outside the front door".
Which is it?

Did you not track your parcel? You must have been expecting the delivery.

Delivery man tries door, believing he is following delivery instructions. Owner of house opens door and is apparently flustered and furious, offering a few “choice words”. Man explains that he is following delivery instructions. Home owner contacts retailer to complain. Home owner also asks on an open forum if she is being unreasonable. Members on forum offer a range of opinions, of course including ones in which they disagree. Home owner continues to post capital lettered, exclamation marked responses to those who disagree. She describes delivery man as “antagonistic” and “aggressive” but only following increased number of those who disagree.

The wine is an excellent idea OP, but try not to over do it! 🍷

When I was heavily pregnant I had a very large box of nappies delivered from Amazon. Delivery man knocked on the door, I opened it and he apologised that he wasn’t allowed to cross the front door threshold to put the nappies inside the house which was totally fine and reasonable to me and he just left them outside the front door (was too heavy for me to take them). So I’m not surprised Amazon is taking it seriously.

Yanbu. If they are there to deliver a parcel they should knock. No answer? Leave and try again another time if no safe place. You just don't access someone's property without permission. Hope he gets sacked for that as he's gone way over the line.

This.

Delivery man tries door, despite instructions requesting that if owner is not in, items to be left outside door.
Owner is in, delivery man just didn’t bother knocking on door.
Wine is not the problem here.
Your reading and comprehension skills however?
Questionable.

No no, you are hilarious.
Really I insist, you absolutely are.
Another woman putting a woman down for feeling intimidated in her own home?
Thats hilarious.
Own it!

Actually, you should check back, because your settings did not say outside the front door, they said ‘front door/porch’.

And I would have been fine, thanks, because I know when I have ordered something from Amazon, and I read the emails that tell me when to expect delivery of said order.

Oh, and I always lock my door, as that is the purpose of a lock - to stop people from attempting to enter, unless invited. It’s what the police advise.

They are, thankfully.
Unlike a lot of posters on this thread!