To ring and complain

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OK, so, you know those plastic bags that charities put through the door?

"Fill this bag for charity X and we will collect on...."

Except they only give a small amount of money from the collection to the charity (but that's another thread)

Anyway, one of these bags got put through my letterbox at 5.55am and the bloody idiot woke me up because they rattled the letterbox so loudly.

AIBU to phone the collection company when they open at 10 am and complain?

I don't think you're being unreasonable. That would really piss me off. Yeah - phone and complain.

My binmen wake me up at that time once a week - I just wake up, think oh, the bins, and go back to sleep. I think it's a wee bit petty, tbh.

Yeah but tortoise, its not the binmen, its not a service iyswim, and it doesn't happen regularly, if it happened regularly I would get used to it and probably not notice?

Also, it wasn't a noise outside, it was actually something rattling my letterbox and falling inside my house.

Wow someone loves their job to be bag dropping at 5.55am

What charity, so I can avoid like the plague, please!

well, it was a collection being run on behalf of a charity, where they only give £5 per tonne of clothes to the actual charity, but the bag was branded with the charity logos etc - I'll bring it to the meet up so you can see, it looks like you're giving to the charity, but you actually aren't does that make sense?

It was for childline!

Oh I understood that. But they must have some sort of deal with the organization and any charity that uses that tactic, I avoid.

I don't get them as I live at City Centre in a block of flats with a secure entrance.

Yeah they get a fiver for every tonne of clothes donated, well that's what it says on the bag??

The company doing the collection are that crowd that have the wee kiosk at Junction One - so they are a private company, making money - if you drop your own clothes off to them they pay you for them.

Personally, I'd rather hand my fiver right to Childline!!

Oh and I would definitely ring and complain.

Am I the only one who feels sorry for the person who had to get up really early to deliver said sacks and is probably going on to another job or has small children to look after while OH goes to work. Am I being to empathic ??

Most of our droppers are young students or from Eastern Europe, had a nice girl drop of a bag the other week while I was putting rubbish out, she was bursting for the loo so I let her use mine she was gob smacked as no one ever had before .

We have never had any at 5.55am though

Trumpton - I get like that sometimes too, so no, not to empathic. But tbh, I'm empathising more with OP right now due to my own lack of sleep...

too

Oh mcsnail i thought your TOO was aimed at me and then i saw you had done it TO

There was a spate of houses being broken into round here and apparently the police said they deliver those bags as an excuse to look through windows for valuables etc and report back who to break in to....dont know how true it is or how widespread

Trumpton, I didn't even notice your typo, haha.

See I'm a single mum, in the house on my own last night, and the idea of someone snooping around at that time of the morning worries me.

Also, sorry if this offends, but I heard the bag drop and the letterbox rattle and I was alseep before that - so what woke me up? The first thought in my head was oh there's someone at the door, what was that noise, then I looked and the childline bag was on the mat so I felt a bit

And then felt bad for even thinking that it wasn't genuine

Are you still shagging that car bloke until 4am? Is that why it irked so?

YANBU. I would want to complain too.

not last night portia, ask me again tomorrow lol