What's with delivery drivers etc. ignoring the doorbell and hammering on the door instead?

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Having recently spent a small fortune on our lovely new front door, this is starting to give me the rage :mad: We just had an Ocado delivery and the guy just waltzed up to the front door, ignored our Reolink doorbell (which lights up when you approach ffs!) and instead just smashed our letter box up and down :confused: It's not often drivers completely ignore the doorbell, but most seem to push it and hammer on the door immediately (dumb when you can hear the doorbell from outside), or clatter the letterbox which is just as annoying and sounds so aggressive. Argh, anyone else get this? Do they think if they don't ring the doorbell they won't be caught on camera or something? :confused:

I've now turned the Reolink light to always on at night which may help, we'll see... I think I'm off to join the 'Dull Men's Club' Facebook group now and rant about this further :mad: :(
 
I'm not a delivery driver, but I hate ringing doorbells where you can't hear that it's worked (ie like an "old fashioned one" near the door). You can stand a long time not knowing if there's been a sound where it's needed. And I wonder if delivery drivers are increasingly frustrated with remote answer type bells... if you're delivering you need someone in, not someone waffling from 20 miles away, or from down Tesco. Or the bog.
 
It's to save time. Time in finding the doorbell. The extra knock on the door is to make sure you've heard them, in case you didn't hear the doorbell. They also may not be able to hear the doorbell themselves, hence the additional knock. They are time pressured.
 
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More delivery drivers seem to do this (we even have a sign on the door, next to the knocker that says to ring the bell...)
If it's Amazon most of the time they're not even knocking now.
 
It's quite amusing that the Amazon delivery drivers tend to ignore my Ring doorbell.

Don't blame them. It's too slow to react, when they're under serious pressure to deliver a lot of stuff.
 
same fitted a ring video door bell and they ignore it , put a sign up asking them to use it and still the same.......
 
Probably due to the number of times they heard "oh the doorbell doesn't work" they just don't bother using it as a first approach. Most that deliver to us tend to both use the bell and knock, or more lately just drop the parcel and run.
 
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i also have a little sign on the door right by the knocker that says to use the bell and there’s an arrow pointing at it.

Many delivery drivers ignore it. I suspect they can’t actually read English.
 
I've also noticed the same with a ring doorbell. We actually had one delivery guy say he wouldn't use "those things" as he didn't want to be recorded, didn't like to point out that he was being recorded anyway.
I think its more down to the whole "don't like being watched" thing which as said is pretty pointless. Most of them ether abandon the parcel or hammer the door.

We had a collection the other day and the guy used the doorbell, we were out and able to arrange being in today for collect, last week a DHL guy used it and we were able to clarify that he could leave it behind the car while we were out.
 
Ring doorbells that aren't hard wired in take ages to wake up on first use of the day, so prob got fed up waiting a few times and just knock as quicker/louder.
 
The delivery drivers generally do what they think is best... some of them have an insane mumber of drops per day to get through, thay are not going to hang around.

If people insist on cheap, fast delivery, this is part of the price you pay....Sometimes I hear a knock on the door and by the time I've opened the door, the driver is already back in the van and setting off.

More worryingly, I wonder about road safety when delivery drivers are under pressure to deliver x amount of items per day.
 
Well, glad it’s not just us then!

Andrew_McP said:
but I hate ringing doorbells where you can't hear that it's worked
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Pretty sure you can hear ours but I get the point.
Andrew_McP said:
if you're delivering you need someone in, not someone waffling from 20 miles away, or from down Tesco. Or the bog.
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But if I’m on the bog and tell him to leave it hidden in the recycling bin or something, that counts as a delivery right? Ah but I guess as others say, chucked on the doorstep seems to count as a delivery nowadays :rolleyes:
CaptainRAVE said:
To the point where I’ve opened the door and pressed the bell to check it actually works. It does :D
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We said to the guy “oh is the bell not working” and pushed it for him :o
mattyfez said:
More worryingly, I wonder about road safety when delivery drivers are under pressure to deliver x amount of items per day.
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Oh heck yeah. The driving around our very narrow streets is scary. We had to cross the road when walking because a van had pulled up right across the pavement and we couldn’t get past :confused:Regularly see them bombing up and down the streets.
Doughnut007 said:
One of our local drivers just drops the parcel on the doorstep and takes a photo.
You only know it's there when you get the email.
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I’ve got a picture of a parcel hanging out of the letterbox which was delivered mid afternoon when we were both at work. It wasn’t clear from the doorbell footage otherwise we would asked a neighbour to retrieve it. Amazingly it didn’t get stolen - our front door is only about 6ft from the pavement and we get a fair amount of foot traffic going past.

Seems the only use that video doorbells are good for is to ask your neighbours nicely to retrieve your parcel for you :o
 
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