Postman banging on door

custardy

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.

people ignore buzzers,take that from experience
whether you answer the buzzer or not,I (in this scenario) am still coming to your door with the package and/or P739(red card)
you also forget the possibility of going to multiple doors in one building
shall i be playing musical buzzers?
as for leave a package in the stairwell? not on my watch

custardy

Torry_Quine wrote: »

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!

once had a guy lean out of an upstairs window and say he would be down after his shower,in about 20 minutes :eek:

POPPYOSCAR

The way things seem to being going with Royal Mail you will just be glad he turns up soon!

eco

And you better watch yours, because all he needs to say to his manager is that you're aggressive and he doesn't feel safe delivering to you any more, then you'll have to pick up all your mail from the D.O.

Posties do a fantastic job, but if I was this postie on this round, I'd be making sure the DOM was aware of the customer who complained about not ringing the bell and watching like a hawk every time i delivered just to have a whinge, but no one should feel threatened at work and this is there work space. by the way I'm not a postie.

And for the person complaining it's direspectful to knock on the door and wake a baby, how is anyone outside that house to know a baby's sleeping, or that there's one in the house at all, it's time a lot of people got a grip on life there's far more stressful events in life and this ain't one of them.

vyle

Torry_Quine wrote: »

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!

If the postie wants an eyeful of my meathammer, then he's welcome to it, but I don't think he will somehow.

people ignore buzzers,take that from experience
whether you answer the buzzer or not,I (in this scenario) am still coming to your door with the package and/or P739(red card)
you also forget the possibility of going to multiple doors in one building
shall i be playing musical buzzers?
as for leave a package in the stairwell? not on my watch

Fair 'nuff. It shall continue to scare the bejesus out of me.

Torry_Quine

vyle wrote: »

If the postie wants an eyeful of my meathammer, then he's welcome to it, but I don't think he will somehow.

I just quickly grab my dressing gown.

mazza111

vyle - the postie aint gonna stand outside in the peeing rain writing a card, when he can write inside where it's at least dry, hopefully dry and warm. I'm afraid I would be a postie that would scare the bejesus out of u

skivenov

custardy wrote: »

people ignore buzzers,take that from experience
whether you answer the buzzer or not,I (in this scenario) am still coming to your door with the package and/or P739(red card)
you also forget the possibility of going to multiple doors in one building
shall i be playing musical buzzers?

Don't think most people on here are aware of the concept that there could be other people on the same round as them!

Riversong

Knock knock knock wellused. Knock knock knock wellused! Knock knock knock wellused!

Sorry couldn't resist!

ThumbRemote

eco wrote: »

And for the person complaining it's direspectful to knock on the door and wake a baby, how is anyone outside that house to know a baby's sleeping, or that there's one in the house at all, it's time a lot of people got a grip on life there's far more stressful events in life and this ain't one of them.

You don't seem to have read their post very well - they were complaining about banging hard on the door, not just knocking.