Amazon driver opened my front door without permission (it's on camera) - can I claim compensation?

mark_cycling00

Take them to court!!
However it might be traumatic... the judge will *deliver* a verdict and it might be an *open-and-shut* case.

Lorian

Did he leave a parcel?

Grumpy_chap

titaniumapple said:

An Amazon driver opened my front door without permission (it's on camera) - can I claim compensation? What are the next steps I should take?

Thanks

What loss have you suffered as a result of this action?

Was the door unlocked?  Why?  Anyone could open an unlocked front door.

Is this a door right into your house, or a door into a porch?  Many people have a porch door that they leave unlocked and that would be used by delivery drivers to leave a parcel inside the porch as safer than propped up outside exposed to the elements and less visible to passers-by.

I assume it was an Amazon driver with a reason to be at your property (i.e. delivering an order) and not just a random person who looked like an Amazon driver who then entered the house and wandered around to do as they please.

Skiddaw1

Our local couriers (and the postie) does it all the time (and we're very grateful)

Really don't get what the issue is....

theoretica

Compensation for realising how easily a criminal could do the same thing?

MalMonroe

Oh dear, some people don't appear to have taken this question seriously .  .   .  .  

But to be honest, I'd lock my door - our door's always locked. You never know who's lurking around and one of my parents' neighbours was burgled while she was at home when her door was unlocked. She neither heard nor saw a thing. Except that her handbag containing a purseful of money was no longer sitting on the kitchen table.

Next step to take? Lock the door, delivery people then have to knock, or at the very least send you a message to say the parcel's been delivered. We always get an email or text when they've been to us. 

Please don't shop an amazon driver, their job is bad enough as it is. 

outtatune

Opening the door no doubt allowed cold air into the property, which could have lowered the temperature by as much as 0.1 degree. At today's energy costs, that's a lot of money.

powerful_Rogue

MalMonroe said:

Oh dear, some people don't appear to have taken this question seriously .  .   .  .  

I believe it's been treated with the contempt it deserves.

DullGreyGuy

outtatune said:

Opening the door no doubt allowed cold air into the property, which could have lowered the temperature by as much as 0.1 degree. At today's energy costs, that's a lot of money.

was 14C today, some people here have been reporting their home dropping to below 10C... could have raised the temp by 0.1C and saved the OP a packet (as well as delivering one)

born_again

titaniumapple said:

An Amazon driver opened my front door without permission (it's on camera) - can I claim compensation? What are the next steps I should take?

Thanks

So do you have porch? Or were they straight into your house?

Many will open porch doors & leave parcels in there..