Postman banging on door

something4nothing

wellused wrote: »

Don't worry I'll be watching out for him so he better mind his p's and q's.

What a sad and lonely person you must be.

custardy

liana_y2kuk wrote: »

My postie had taken to walking across my garden and window to my next door neihbours house from mt other the neihbour on the other side.
Grr

not delivery procedure
get them told or complain

mazza111

Agree with custardly. See even posties and former posties welcome valid complaints Of course it's them doing this that makes the job faster, or them appear to be faster, then time gets cut off the duties too

Torry_Quine

I constantly have delivery people, postmen. paper-boy etc banging on the door when I have a door-bell and it does annoy me and I point it out.

I used to live in a tenement with an entry system and they would buzz and then be let into the building to go to the correct flat and that's how it should be.

custardy

Torry_Quine wrote: »

I constantly have delivery people, postmen. paper-boy etc banging on the door when I have a door-bell and it does annoy me and I point it out.

I used to live in a tenement with an entry system and they would buzz and then be let into the building to go to the correct flat and that's how it should be.

even when the service button was active?

barnabee

Postie is just following RM instructions to carry out the correct delivery procedure in the correct order:

Everybody knows his bright red van, All his friends will smile as he waves to greet them, Maybe... You can never be sure, There'll be knock...[knock knock] Ring [ring ring] Letters through your door.

Torry_Quine

custardy wrote: »

even when the service button was active?

Sorry, should have said no service button but letter box in main outer door.

custardy

Torry_Quine wrote: »

Sorry, should have said no service button but letter box in main outer door.

well theres no other option in that scenario

vyle

goater78 wrote: »

Is it not better to receive a parcel at your door at 7am as opposed to having to walk down to the lobby at 7am to get it? I know which one i would prefer.

I must admit I don't see a major difference between the postman knocking on your door as opposed to say a fellow resident in the flat. I assume they don't wander outside and beep you to let them know they are coming.

But you say this as if other people in my block communicate with each other. I've seen one of my neighbours in passing about three times. One other couple once... other than that, never seen a soul.

I live quite close to london, so people tend to keep to themselves and regard each other with a certain level of distrust, and as someone who is painfully misanthropic at times, I like for the buzzer to ring so that I can at least know who is at the door, and I can decide whether I want them in or not. To skip past my human screening, so to speak, puts me ill at ease, especially if I'm still fast asleep (I tend to work very late, so sleep in til usually 10).

Besides, it's not like I'd have to run down per-se. I can activate the door to let them up.

custardy wrote: »

its not a doorbell
its a means to gain entry to the stair
so you expect them to stand in the street,ring a buzzer,wait................................wait............are they in/up?.....wait...
right now I'll press the service button and go inside
knock the door................wait...............now write a P739 if thers no answer
oh look,suddenly thats halved the number of packages deliverd in an hour

Surely it'd be quicker for you to ring the buzzer, if I've not answered, write your note. If I have, drop it off in the lobby or bring it up, rather than go up three flights of stairs to bang on a door, wait for me to work out if I was hearing things...decide it might be a burgler...wonder if it is something else....look out to see if there's a post van on the street, then go to the door, look through the peephole, then get dressed (assuming I'm not up yet) engage the chain... then answer the door.

When I could have just gone "yeah, K, drop it in the stairwell, I'll be down in a bit."

I understand that I may be alone or unusual in this, but if somebody bypasses the buzzer, they may as well sneak up behind me and tap me on the shoulder, because i'm not expecting a knock on my actual door and it scares the !!!! out of me.

Torry_Quine

vyle wrote: »

But you say this as if other people in my block communicate with each other. I've seen one of my neighbours in passing about three times. One other couple once... other than that, never seen a soul.

I live quite close to london, so people tend to keep to themselves and regard each other with a certain level of distrust, and as someone who is painfully misanthropic at times, I like for the buzzer to ring so that I can at least know who is at the door, and I can decide whether I want them in or not. To skip past my human screening, so to speak, puts me ill at ease, especially if I'm still fast asleep (I tend to work very late, so sleep in til usually 10).

Besides, it's not like I'd have to run down per-se. I can activate the door to let them up.



Surely it'd be quicker for you to ring the buzzer, if I've not answered, write your note. If I have, drop it off in the lobby or bring it up, rather than go up three flights of stairs to bang on a door, wait for me to work out if I was hearing things...decide it might be a burgler...wonder if it is something else....look out to see if there's a post van on the street, then go to the door, look through the peephole, then get dressed (assuming I'm not up yet) engage the chain... then answer the door.

When I could have just gone "yeah, K, drop it in the stairwell, I'll be down in a bit."

I understand that I may be alone or unusual in this, but if somebody bypasses the buzzer, they may as well sneak up behind me and tap me on the shoulder, because i'm not expecting a knock on my actual door and it scares the !!!! out of me.

Are you really saying that you wouldn't open the door to the postman if you weren't dressed. Surely no-one is going to wait that long!