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I actively tell them to leave it in my porch.

The only issue here worth getting your pants in a twist about is the state of the parcel but then again was anything actually missing? If not then it's nothing to cry about either but still worth a mention.
 
First go watch the documentary done by Inside Out on the BBC, then realise the poor guy/girl probably just couldn't be bothered to wait around all day for you to answer the door when its open.

The condition of the package is a different matter entirely and should be taken up with Amazon directly, but cut the delivery driver some slack, unless you live in such a dump you have bolt everything down! In that case lock the damn door.
 
If you want to call it a hallway then call it a hallway. It's a place where you come in, there's carpetting and shoes/coats/outside clothing is left. It is between the main entrance to the house (actual lockable front door) and another not lockable door which leads directly to the living room.

Am I really to believe that I should accept someone walking into my house through my front door, with a parcel that is clearly not fit for delivery is my own fault because I didn't lock a door 15 feet from me?
 
Sargatanas2511 said:
Am I really to believe that I should accept someone walking into my house through my front door, with a parcel that is clearly not fit for delivery is my own fault because I didn't lock a door 15 feet from me?
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yu asked what you can do, other than complain to amazon there is nothing you can do. lock it or leave it unlock. but you have no legal recourse.
 
Sargatanas2511 said:
Am I really to believe that I should accept someone walking into my house through my front door, with a parcel that is clearly not fit for delivery is my own fault because I didn't lock a door 15 feet from me?
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Yes. If you don't want that to happen. Lock your door.

I would say a delivery driver has a very genuine reason for quickly opening an unlocked door and dropping a parcel off.
 
We really need a photograph here showing the layout. What you're describing sounds like either a porch or a front door, it's almost impossible to know which is which.

If it's your actual front door then leaving it unlocked in this day and age is quite simply bonkers. It doesn't matter how far away from it you are, leaving it unlocked is a security issue and if you were robbed/burglarised then I expect your insurance company would reject the claim if they knew your property wasn't secure.
 
totally agree, our front door locks when you close it, so from the outside it cant be opened.
which is an issue if it closes behind you while you put the rubbish out :)
 
SilverTongue said:
So is this a porch or a hallway? As what you have described is the latter in which case it is a completely different kettle of fish
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Yeah, he doesn't have a porch. Entering what is clearly the front door and leaving something is to me not acceptable. But then, if it's a plain old front door leave it the hell locked.

I have a porch in my new house, it's an outer door, which I mostly leave unlocked, and an inner door has the same level of security. I leave this locked even when I'm in. Delivery guys if they are in a rush are welcome to leave stuff in the porch and have done many times. They are not welcome to enter my house to leave something when I am or am not here which is why that door is locked.

The place you enter a house normally and leave your stuff isn't a porch. A porch is a secondary entry way that leaves a protected buffer for the normal front door by my definition. By an official definition..

a covered shelter projecting in front of the entrance of a building.
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An entrance, foyer, entry hall, mud room, welcome hall, whatever, is what you call the space behind your front door where you would often leave shoes, coats, keys, wallets, phones maybe, anything that you'd want with you next time you leave the house. That is what the OP has and leaving it unlocked is nuts. Burglars can and do randomly try front doors, if they are open have a look and see what small easy stuff they can steal within a arms reach of the door then do a runner.

That stuff belongs inside a locked door.
 
Yes, I understand and accept that leaving it unlocked is bad and I will not do it from now on.

But apparently because of this it's my fault that someone walked into my house through my front door and threw a parcel onto the ground which has it's seal broken and no receipt.

I am pretty sure if I walked into someone elses house and then tried to blame them for it I wouldn't be looked on favourably.
 
No one's blamed you for it, people jump to that assumption too much these days. in fact I said it was unacceptable to enter the house. However most people have told you it's fine because you said you have a porch and most people would be happy to get a delivery without much fuss or bother by having it left in the porch. It's your poor description that has caused most of the replies to be as they are.

Delivery drivers routinely enter porches and leave things, it's literally an option if you go to track delivery and leave delivery instructions you can ask them to leave it in the porch, you can't ask them to leave it inside the front door though, because Amazon would never want the liability.

If someone enters your house without your permission, you aren't to blame, that person chose to take that action, but if the action happened because you didn't lock the door you share fault for the entire situation as a whole. Had you locked the door he could still have tried to enter but he wouldn't have been successful.

If there is damage or anything missing, contact Amazon, they'll replace it. Honestly it's Amazon, they probably won't even ask for a reason but if they do say it was left without being signed for and the box was looked like it had been opened when you found it.
 
Sargatanas2511 said:
I didn't invite anyone, it was my partner who ordered it. and she asked them to deliver it, not walk into the house and leave it somewhere.
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Well, they did and there is nothing you can do about it apart from moan at Amazon. They might give you a small credit or something.
 
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