Is this Facebook post reasonable or rude and ungrateful?

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Opinions in the comments are split. What's yours?

YABU - rude and ungrateful
YANBU - understandable

Both.
They do need to tell people not to donate things that are not needed and cause more hassle than help, but they REALLY need to get someone better at writing their coms. The emphasis needs to be on appreciation and what they do want, with a polite request not to leave the things they don't because they can't distribute them, rather than scolding people and making them feel they've been a nuisance.

Well yes we did used to have things like milk, cream, veg and fruit, lots of bread and perishables delivered to the womans refuge and I remember all the fresher items were divvied up and consumed on the day we got them, some times we had toast and beans and cereal for days and other weeks we would have cream instead of milk with our tea, bowls full of fruit with cream.
I think this post has made me realise how much has changed compared to my experience, it's quite eye opening tbh.

Have you seen all of their social media? Do you know that they didn't start out all softly softly?

I would imagine that they have asked people not to do this umpteen times and it's being ignored. Not rude or ungrateful at all.

Delivered? So not mysteriously dumped at some point in the preceding days?

Short shelf life and so difficult to distribute while fresh and therefore costs the charity to dispose of. Canned fruit and veg is usually appreciated.

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I just looked them up on FB and see that the post has been edited to make it look more gracious and professional while still getting the message across.

Are you the donor op? Maybe it could have been worded better but if this is the 10th time they have posted about it maybe they are starting to get frustrated. Presumably, whichever business is leaving it is saving money on their own bins.

Delivered at the back of the house, people used to leave all sorts back there was the 80s no rules or regulations about things like that, we didnknow if it was fresh or had been sitting in a van overnight.

I guess it was written by a volunteer - if people don't like it they could volunteer their time instead.

40 years later, no one wants to eat bin food off the street 😂

A bit like the thread when the OP was cross at her husband for using a community waste project.

this food should be going in that. Where people can collect it for animal or themselves but a WASTE project not a foodbank. Where this should not happen

You have to spell it out in a rude way for thick numpties to get the message that dumping perishable food on a doorstep is not the way you donate to a food bank.

The FB post was a few days ago, and now a sudden influx in the last hour of new posts telling them how ungrateful they are.
I bet it is people on here.

There is community run food hub near me which gives out food otherwise heading for the bin.
Every post asks people not to park on site (unless blue badge holders) because they are based in a small industrial site and the other units don't want their own customers to be unable to park. I imagine it was one of the conditions to be allowed to set up the hub there.
Every few days they have to remind people not to park there. People think it doesn't apply to them.

Then there is the KFC giveaway, where recipients are asked to message the staff and NOT reply to the post with a "can I have some please". Every single time you see posts saying "I asked for some KFC, you didn't reply [moan moan]".

People seem to lose their heads when donated food is involved. Most of these hubs are run by volunteers and I don't blame them for throwing their hands in the air at times.

By The tone I'm wondering if they have said this more than once already. I don't understand why people do this, if the food bank can't take it just put it up on a local FB group and put it outside your own door for people to collect.
There a charity type shop here that donates to projects in the community and the poor woman that owns it is demented asking people not to leave stuff outside the door at night or when the shop is closed, either good stuff is ruined in the rain or people are dumping mouldy baby gear and electricals that the shop has to then organise and pay for disposal of

Completely fine to point it out, but I think the wording is a little brusque. If I was the one who had left the sandwiches, I would feel like a naughty schoolchild after that finger wagging post😅

If it stopped you dumping loads of food and wasting the food bank's time and money, it would be job done though.

My friend got in trouble for running a food bank set up from her house. She was helping a lot of people , and left it outside in cool boxes and various containers. It attracted vermin, foxes , complaints from neighbours ...and she needed to be registered as a food business with a food licence. The charity could have worded it better but these are similar concerns to the above and vermin etc cause disease and may affect the people who eat it , thus so ...^

I agree.

I understand what they’re trying to say but you can say it in a way that’s not rude and still be grateful.

This is coming across as quite rude. The person is obviously trying to do a nice thing.

If it was me I would also recommend places to donate fresh products too aswell.

Nope!! Didn’t realise they were… high profile

I like to donate to foodbanks and don't think it's unreasonable at all. Bread is perishable so will go off easily so not a good thing to donate, surely better to let people know not to than for them to keep donating it?

Because they my go out collect, they don’t need donations. It will be to do with storage space and not having more than they need before it goes out of date.