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 don't understand why you've been given such a hard time tonight OP. This would also have disturbed me, particularly in view of the fact that you are a childminder.
No one suspected that Wayne Cousins (friendly local copper on the surface of it) would be capable of murder but it happened.
You did well to report it.

Mine is always locked even if we are in. Amazon I don't think give an option in our case of leaving post and parcels in the metal box by door or on step (we have no letter box) and I have never had a driver trying to get in. They usually ring the bell andin 30 seconds I have the door opened

Same. I’d be freaked out if someone was trying to open the front door.

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

😂😂

This is getting so boring now.
But I will reiterate, again.
My latch was on.
Yes I was expecting a delivery, within a four hour window.
The attempted opening of my front door was very aggressive, and I had no idea who it was.
My settings say if I wasn’t in, to leave OUTSIDE front door.
It honestly has left me incredulous how many women think it’s perfectly acceptable to have a complete stranger try to open your front door, whilst you are inside your home, without trying to knock first.
Do none of you get how vulnerable that makes you feel?
My house is my safe place, someone trying to enter it without my permission is obviously distressing.
MN is nuts!

Thank you so much x
The posters who are trying to insinuate the wine has got to me are so disappointing.
What happened to women supporting women?

There, there 🤗

I’m confused why you opened the door when you thought a strange man was trying to break in. Also confused as to why you think being an ‘outspoken person’ is a protective quality. Do women who get attacked somehow ‘ask for it’

Here we go again.We really have run out of original post ideas haven’t we?

I wonder if all these Mumsnetters who are happy to have a stranger wander into their homes off the streets would be so blasé if he attempted to use their toilet? 😂

If someone is meaning you harm, aren’t they more likely to be quiet and stealthy? And they were delivering an item on behalf of a company you’d ordered from so where do you think the threat lay here? You are overreacting and seem to need validation. You claim Amazon took your worries seriously so what further support are you expecting on here?

To be fair on the driver it doesn't matter if the door actually leads to a porch, if she's put leave in porch on her instructions it's very reasonable that he's trying to open the door to find this porch

My settings say if I wasn’t in, to leave OUTSIDE front door.

Yet in your first post you confirmed that the delivery man read out your settings from his own device and said differently. So you are coming across as unreasonable about him. Maybe your settings are wrong or maybe amazon's system has made a mistake but you seem very determined to lay all the blame on him. If his device mentions the porch then he hasn't done anything wrong.

Delivery people don't spend time surveying the exterior of a property trying to determine if there is actually a porch behind a door. If their device says porch they think its there.

Do you tell the parents of your childminded kids that you don’t lock the door?

She absolutely can leave her door unlocked and complain if someone tries to come through it!!! It’s her bloody house, we should be allowed to leave it unlocked without fear of someone coming in, granted that’s not the world we live in now but she does have every right to complain

The post asking if posters were drunk was written by YOU...

but never mind 😂

I can’t believe the replies on this thread! In what world are you all living in thinking it’s ok for delivery drivers to actually open someone’s front door, it’s common sense that if the delivery options say front door/porch then you either leave it outside the front door or in a porch (if you see the house has one) a front door and porch door look completely different.

Why would I ?
As the latch (clearly!) works to stop anyone entering.
But thanks for completely avoiding the point of the thread 😂

Don’t be daft!

Youve changed your tune. Cos in your OP, you said the delivery driver has the instructions as “front door/porch” so why would that be? Who types in the delivery instructions?

They think a porch is there?
Despite the evidence of their own eyes?
Despite instructions clearly stating leave outside front door/porch???
Wow what in the Harry Potter is going on here?!

Doesn’t bother me when this happens. I’d rather the parcel was in doors and not left outside.

So you are happy for ANYONE to come in your front door? 😂😂😂😂

You said the instructions were to leave in the porch. Now you’re saying it says outside.

You can’t instruct delivery drivers just to leave outside anyway

I don’t need further support.
I posted as I thought it was completely unreasonable to expect an Amazon delivery bloke to try to access my property.
And I certainly don’t need sarcastic, condescending replies such as yours.