Delivery man inside the house...
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We used to get this occasionally in a past house, as the front door looked like it was a door to the porch, not to the house.
The only real solution is to lock the front door, but putting a curtain up where the second porch door should be seemed to help too.
The only real solution is to lock the front door, but putting a curtain up where the second porch door should be seemed to help too.
But why would you leave the door unlocked if you didn't want your parcel to be put inside the door?
Your other points:
- "No valid reason": to deliver a parcel?
- "Not better than someone meaning harm": are you quite sure about that?
- "It's one and the same": delivering the parcel probably isn't as bad as, say, stealing your crumpets, messing up the cushions and leaving a poo on the sideboard. And there could be even worse things than that that someone could do (!)
Ahh yes, under loads of pressure so that makes it ok to open the front door, let themselves in, and drop a parcel off? Right, ok, we are living in crazy times then...
, most people leave their car doors unlocked when they're driving it doesn't mean "Hey guys I don't know you but when I'm stopped in traffic just hop in and make yourself at home, I love a good chat on a long drive."Do you leave the door unlocked as an open invitation to delivery drivers to let themselves in and drop parcels off that way?
What's to say that the delivery driver isn't of an unscrupulous nature and doesn't intend to do those things? What happens the next time he comes to the same house and "finds" the door unlocked and decides to take it a step further? Or that in this instance the OP was lucky enough that the driver wasn't of an unscrupulous nature, but very likely could have been?
Again, just because the door is unlocked doesn't mean that it is an open invitation for all and sundry to come on in and make themselves at home. In fact, it isn't any kind of invitation whatsoever, and the fact that someone is trying to open the door in the first place is what worries me the most. Would you find it acceptable if people went around trying to open doors, but had no intention of doing anything else if they were to find an open door? Nobody should be opening the door to someone elses house unless they've been invited. I don't care what they're there to do, it just isn't on.
It's not like the postie sat on the sofa and helped himself to a hobnob, is it?
How do you know? He already managed to run back to his van faster than the speed of light so what's not to say that he didn't zip round the ground floor nick a hobnob and wipe his hobnob on the curtains before leaving the parcel.
He just delivered a parcel, he didn't make himself at home and he didn't do any more than was necessary to deliver the parcel. He might be some sort of murderous degenerate, and perhaps OP just got him on a good day so was fortunate enough to live to tell the tale - but he might, possibly, just be a conscientious delivery man.
Not at all, but you are missing the point.
Yes, have your door locked is the solution! We all agree on that...
But regardless, nobody should be attempting to even open your front door, never mind come in!
Maybe the delivery man did actually leave your parcel outside and a courteous burglar brought it inside before being disturbed.
Would explain why you couldn't catch up with him
I'm not sure alerting the retailer or courier would be of any help to be honest. I'd go straight to the police and inform them you need help and advice on how to secure your property
Would explain why you couldn't catch up with him
I'm not sure alerting the retailer or courier would be of any help to be honest. I'd go straight to the police and inform them you need help and advice on how to secure your property
Be happy they didn't just leave it outside? It is proper cheeky though, I'd just say lock your door. At least it was the delivery man and not some mentalist with a knife!!
Royal mail recently left an SSD outside my door in a block of flats. Should I be annoyed someone 'could' have stolen it or happy that I didn't have to goto the sorting office to collect.
Royal mail recently left an SSD outside my door in a block of flats. Should I be annoyed someone 'could' have stolen it or happy that I didn't have to goto the sorting office to collect.
Why not? If it's unlocked, that would presumably mean the occupier is happy for someone to open it - a postie delivering a parcel seems a reasonable person to do so. And you can't usually tell it's unlocked without trying it.
I've never heard of a front door that doesn't automatically lock
A lot of Yale locks have latches which means you can stop them from automatically engaging the lock when the door is closed
Phew, yeah. OP is lucky - one in a million shot, and he hit the jackpot.
It's unlocked - but CLOSED, there is no implied consent here that someone can enter a private building without permission.
Just wondering how people would feel if their GF/Wife was at home alone with couriers happily coming into the house, don't get me wrong we lock our front door whenever we get inside but that's just habit (we use to live in a very bad neighbourhood).
Couriers should be knocking/Ringing the door bell and waiting, no answer - then they leave it out of sight somewhere, but as for coming inside without permission, that's not on.
I don't want delivery guys coming in to my house, so I lock the door. I don't think it's unreasonable, though, for them to drop a parcel inside if the door is unlocked. I mean, why is it left unlocked and unattended if it's not ok to be used for a delivery?
You're the delivery guy aren't you?