To not want to be woken at 4am for this?

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Every day I am woken between 3am and 4am by a newspaper delivery guy with a car that sounds like a motorbike. Drives into my quiet close leaves the car idling outside my window while delivering newspapers to my (mostly retired) neighbours. For context, I am menopausal with insomnia, a light sleeper, with a child with SEN who is unwell (long term), am battling the system for support, I work, and I am already on my knees. This is the last straw. What can I do? I have tried white noise, can’t do earplugs as I need to hear my child, too hot to shut the windows. Am thinking of cancelling everyone’s papers on their behalf so I can have a decent nights sleep. 😂. I’m only half joking.

go to the newspaper shop and tell them really pleasantly that it is an issue that they are waking you every morning with their noisy vehicle.

they probably are totally unaware that it is a problem, and hopefully you can explain youve tried everything your end but its not working so are hopeig you can find a solution between you.

Ask they either park outside the close or turn the engine off when delivering - which ever will be the most silent

Last time l looked this was a pubic forum. OP has a lot on her plate and is posting for advice, not snotty put downs.

electric vehicles will help as they have much quieter engines

I wonder if he is actually using a motorbike, I'm surprised most cars even with petrol engines would sound as loud as that. I'll reach out to your local facebook page and your newsagent, ask where they deliver.

Yes, from time to time we have a milk van delivering in the early hours. Everyone in our cul de sac gets milk from the supermarket but every so often a milk company goes round trying to get people to have it delivered. A few people accept and then after everyone is woken up for a while they stop.

Would it help if the driver parked just outside the close, and/or didn’t leave the engine idling? Agree it’s a good idea to contact whoever organises the deliveries, but probably most effective if you come to them with a potential solution!

Depends where you live. I had a tour of the News International plant about 25 years ago, and some editions go out much earlier.

She should not have to to that. 4 am is ment to be quiet night time.

Its perfectly fine to chat to people about stuff that is bothering you. Thats what an internet forum is for.

Also its useful for tips about what can be done.

Shut your window, use a fan.

Ask your neighbours where they get their newspapers delivered from and contact the shop to ask if they could get their delivery driver to turn his engine off when delivering in your street. It is rather inconsiderate of them.

I cancelled my milk delivery because I was acutely aware of how disturbing it must have been for my neighbours (as well as me), with his lights and clanking. When I was a kid the milkman would come around at a more civilised time but this one was 1-2am.

Agree with others, ask neighbours where they get their papers from. You won't upset them at all!
As for being too hot, shut the windows just as you get into bed, and get one of those silent pedestal fans. As a menopausal lady who can't have the windows open through noise, they are a godsend.
Good luck.

That's not what time newspapers get delivered. I would suspect they're delivering something slightly less legal..

This is so annoying. Similarly, lots of my street used to get milk deliveries, including us, but we've all stopped that now. The newspaper deliverer though (we also get a paper delivered) went through a phase of having an awfully loud car. So I know the pain of that. No suggestions, just synpathy.

Delivers newspapers at 3 and 4am ? I would be talking to the newsagent. Completely unnecessary and mad.
Nobody needs to deliver a newspaper at that hour.

You asked them to cancel their deliveries?! Really?

Can you leave a window open at the back of the house and leave your door open?
in Spanish houses they put bars on a small downstairs window so at night they can leave it open and it is secure.
if you open the loft the hot air will go up to the attic.

Contact the shop and get them to tell him to turn the engine off when delivering to your close.

So you don’t want to talk to him, don’t know which business it is, or want to ask your neighbours for risk of upsetting them … it’s very unclear what you expect people to advise then?!?

Haha to a bunch of retired people?

Pop out and tell him, if he's half decent he will park away from you and walk down to deliver the papers

Some things don't need discussion or advice. It needs common sense which is to speak directly to the driver and/or the business

Just here in solidarity - ours isn’t newspapers but delivery of milk to a few neighbours’ houses. Speeding into the cul de sac, lots of noise and slamming doors then zooming away. Even when it’s hot I avoid having the bedroom windows open because the noise wakes me up, much to my husband’s frustration 😅

Ditto the milk and more man.