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?!

OP should count herself lucky it was a delivery driver and not a burglar/rapist/murderer.

Here's a pair where I think it would be tricky to see if there was another door, and if these were still porches, or if they'd become the main entrance to the houses themselves.

I honestly can't believe so many people would be happy for random delivery people to just open/try to open their front door!
You'll all think I'm crazy as I made a complaint about a delivery person (no idea if mam or woman as I wasn't home) stood on my wall leaned over and unlatched the top and bottom bolts on my gates, still not sure how they reached the bottom one, and walked down the side of my house and round the back to leave the package at my back door! I was annoyed at that and would be furious if someone tried to get in my house!

Yanbu Ive never heard of a delivery dude just try and open someone's door.

Im sure I read on here once that Royal Mail had confirmed their post workers shouldn't try peoples doors.

Its probably area related. Round here I imagine most delivery drivers know better than to try and enter someone's home without knocking as they'll end up with a baseball bat wrapped around their face 😂

Oh!
Another one who was actually here, and saw what happened!
Crikey, if I’d known I had so much company, I wouldn’t have been disturbed by it at all!

Thank you!!!
The amount of names I have been called for daring to be freaked out is unreal.
A bitch, a cow, a liar, a dramatist.
I can absolutely guarantee that if we were to meet in real life, not one of them would dare say that to my face!
So thanks for your support, fellow sister!

You have to go through the front door to get to the inner porch door. The gap between the front door and the inner door is "the porch". Either way OP doesn't have this set up so it's irrelevant what the delivery man was or wasn't doing. I was explaining to a previous poster bow you can have a porch door that is flush with the external wall.

I think I live on a different planet to MNers sometimes. I always lock my front door, but I also would be incandescent if someone tried to walk through it, locked or not!

Plenty of terraced houses have their doors flush against the wall. Inside the main front door there is a tiny porch area and another internal door behind. It has no other windows.

Its staggering that people cannot understand how delivery people encounter this kind of set up all day long.

Your definition of a porch is not the same as everyone else's.
You are thinking of an extended out glass construction. Half the country defines it as an inside alcove between the front door and an inner door

What’s daft about not wanting a random delivery driver entering your home?

This!
The same people would shit on a delivery person if they left a parcel out in the rain getting destroyed.

The nonsense of people trying to claim they are entering a house. They don't enter any house. They open the door bend over with their feet still outside, set it down and close the door again.

This thread has shown how willing and vindictive people like OP are to go after someone's job just cos they tried to put the parcel in the safest place with 10 seconds to scan the property. There is no sisterhood in that because that same man probably has a wife and kids at home waiting on his salary that you've just shit upon and made him feel like he doesnt want to do the job anymore. I know many people who work in transport and the shit they put up with from customers employers and the public is unreal.

The man explained what it said on his device. Your realised by then that he wasnt an intruder just delivering a parcel. You could have let it go but no you had to go after his job. Next household complains that he left it in the rain he will get attacked by his employer for that too.

If you don't want delivery people coming to your property and doing their best then just go and buy things in person.

He didn't try to walk through it into the house.

The OP has deliberately worded the title in a misleading and provocative way to encourage the greatest amount of outrage against a delivery driver who tried to open a door to place a parcel inside a house because he made a mistake with the delivery instructions.

He did try to walk into my house, without even trying my doorbell or knocking on the door.
Why are you so desperate to minimise the genuine alarm I felt when a complete stranger tried to enter my home?
Did you miss the part where I initially had no idea who was trying to force my door open, can you honestly not imagine how it felt, as a woman home on her own, to experience that?

I’m being vindictive by making a complaint about someone trying to open my door whilst I’m at home alone?
So in your world that’s totally acceptable is it.
We must have very different standards, and btw Amazon completely agreed with me, they are not allowed to open peoples doors to access their property.
And as a woman who can stand up for himself, of course I called him out on it.

How do you know his intention was to enter your house rather than just put a parcel within the house whilst remaining outside the house?

You know why I want him disciplined?
Because whilst he is blithely trying to open peoples doors, without even knocking on the door first, he has no idea who is on the other side of that door.
In this instance it was me, but it could have been a vulnerable person, it could have been someone sitting there naked, it could have been someone with a pet cat or dog that could bolt out the door when it’s opened.
Is it really much to hope that you are safe and comfortable in your own home?
So yes I do want him to be spoken too, he did make a mistake and he needs to be called out on that, I couldn’t care less if you support that or not tbh.

Because I’m not possessed with X-ray vision, so had no idea it was an Amazon delivery, and not some random person trying to aggressively open my front door.
You can’t see how that would cause alarm in someone home alone? Especially when the door is not knocked upon first?
You don’t think that might give you a bit of a fright?

This with ‘brass knobs on’
If op felt safe enough to leave the door on latch - as he couldn’t get in - what’s the problem?
Real burglars/ intruders tend to be a bit quieter …as not wanting to get caught.
This has been totally blown out of proportion and op doesn’t seem like a meek, little snow flake who would be intimidated by someone one rattling her door handle.
As for other vulnerable people. .. I remember talking to some- ie disabled , elderly- they were happy the delivery man would drop their medication etc in the porch/back door/ where ever requested.

So when you said "He did try to walk into my house" what you meant was "I thought he might be trying to walk into my house" which is different. I can agree you may have thought someone was trying to walk into your house but to say that he was trying to walk into your house is unfair as you have no proof that is what he was trying to do and as it turned out he probably wasn't trying to walk into your house.

Don’t shop at Amazon It’s not that hard to avoid, I manage it quite easily.
(I know that’s totally missing your point but it would prevent this happening again…)

This is batshit
The replies you're getting trying to say it's your fault..

A man didn't knock, or ring the doorbell, tried to open a door and enter ops home.

Then when op went to find out wtf he was doing, got all stroppy and had made up some shit about a porch

She has rightly so, reported him

Ffs, always the women's fault eh, no wonder we are in the state we are in.

I still think he could have mistaken your front door as entering into a porch . My aunt lived in a two up two down Victorian terrace . Her front door opened into a small vestibule and then another interior door into the hallway/ living room .
do you Amazon settings say leave in porch ?

I must be "a meek little snow flake who would be intimidated" by someone trying to open my front door then!
Thanks for that.

Also, did you miss the bit where Amazon decided he shouldn't have done that?
Why are posters blaming OP for Amazon's decision?