Anonymous wrote:Your lives are so different from mine. My UPS guy knocks to make sure I'm home. If I'm not, he'll leave the package with a neighbor, since it would be stolen before he turned the corner if he left it on the porch. Also, I don't get "solicitors". (Seriously, that's such an old-fashioned idea to me... are we talking about the Fuller Brush man??) Knocking on someone's door and trying to sell them something in my 'hood would... not always end well.

So yeah, it's a sketchy area. But no one ever woke up my baby!

Hmm...maybe because I live in a McMansion neighborhood, we're bigger targets because people think we have more disposable cash? I get people trying to sell siding, replacement windows, they guy who "resurfaced several driveways in your neighborhood and wondered if you want your driveway resurfaced", and landscapers. I regularly get people who do yard work or clean homes stop by to see if I would like an estimate. Yes, when we're home, we get on average about 3-4 solicitations per week. And that does not include the people who have been going around for politics (since we have elections next Tuesday) like vote for X or we want to tell you about proposition Y.

Our doorbell stopped working about 2 years ago and I haven't had an electrician out to fix the problem. Instead, I bought one of those wireless doorbells for the home that the inside ringer plugs into the wall. If the babies are asleep, I can unplug the wall unit and voila, no doorbell. Yes, they can use the knocker, but the delivery people who do the courtesy ring, just hit the doorbell and leave, without checking if the bell actually rang or not. If you want to disconnect your doorbell, just look for the ringer box (usually on the wall somewhere near the door), take off the cover and you can disconnect the power cable with a screwdriver. Get one of these $15-20 wireless doorbells while your DC takes naps and do what I do.

I taped a note over my door bell saying "knock please."

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Anonymous wrote:It has got to be just one person posting over and over to stop ordering stuff online. That's a crazy non-responsive response.

Read her original post: these are packages that do not require a signature. The delivery people will be just as happy to deliver without ringing the bell. She's not suggesting we murder them.

Do you people not remember what it was like to have very young kids and need them to nap?

I'm going to tell you something that no one who knows you has the courage to say to your face...you're dumb. I know you think you're smart and you have all the answers. But, no, you're just one of those people who just doesn't get it.

I'm not the PP, but...was that supposed to be witty or "snarky"? Are you 17?

I am the PP and I also wondered about that person's age.

The person whose view I care about if the OP. She came here in a moment of extreme frustration over lost naps, looking for support and ideas. If the person who wants to turn this into an anti-online-shopping movement thinks I'm dumb, fine. If the OP correctly thinks I am supporting her, great.

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Anonymous wrote:It has got to be just one person posting over and over to stop ordering stuff online. That's a crazy non-responsive response.

Read her original post: these are packages that do not require a signature. The delivery people will be just as happy to deliver without ringing the bell. She's not suggesting we murder them.

Do you people not remember what it was like to have very young kids and need them to nap?

I'm going to tell you something that no one who knows you has the courage to say to your face...you're dumb. I know you think you're smart and you have all the answers. But, no, you're just one of those people who just doesn't get it.

I'm not the PP, but...was that supposed to be witty or "snarky"? Are you 17?

We used to have a sign that said "babies sleeping. You wake em, you watch em". Worked like a charm.

Anonymous wrote:It has got to be just one person posting over and over to stop ordering stuff online. That's a crazy non-responsive response.

Read her original post: these are packages that do not require a signature. The delivery people will be just as happy to deliver without ringing the bell. She's not suggesting we murder them.

Do you people not remember what it was like to have very young kids and need them to nap?

I'm going to tell you something that no one who knows you has the courage to say to your face...you're dumb. I know you think you're smart and you have all the answers. But, no, you're just one of those people who just doesn't get it.

Your lives are so different from mine. My UPS guy knocks to make sure I'm home. If I'm not, he'll leave the package with a neighbor, since it would be stolen before he turned the corner if he left it on the porch. Also, I don't get "solicitors". (Seriously, that's such an old-fashioned idea to me... are we talking about the Fuller Brush man??) Knocking on someone's door and trying to sell them something in my 'hood would... not always end well.

So yeah, it's a sketchy area. But no one ever woke up my baby!

It has got to be just one person posting over and over to stop ordering stuff online. That's a crazy non-responsive response.

Read her original post: these are packages that do not require a signature. The delivery people will be just as happy to deliver without ringing the bell. She's not suggesting we murder them.

Do you people not remember what it was like to have very young kids and need them to nap?

OP, why do you have to curse to make your point? Stop ordering online if you want to resolve your problem. But then, that would be too rational right? You really seem like miserable person.

I turn my doorbell down VERY low, so we only hear it if we want to -- or if the dog alerts us to it.

OP, stop ordering sh*t. EASY. Otherwise you have no right to say anything.

You have some great suggestions here.

After you stop ordering sh*t, put up a sign. Everyone I know has one. They have their sh*t mailed to their office. EASY.

BTW, you also have to have sidlight curtains or shades or shutters so they can not see in, otherwise they will not go away.

And don't answer just to tell them off, they will be back if you do.

If it is not a legitimate delivery, most of the time they are casing the place anyway. Don't be stupid.

Anonymous wrote:We cut the power cord to our doorbell so that our incredibly light sleeper wouldn't wake up at every doorbell ring. I remember storming out and giving what for to some person trying to sell me something after a long and drawn out battle to get my child to nap only to be woken up by the doorbell.

This happened to us twice in one week so I put a sign up. Our UPS people rarely knock. Instead it's solicitors, political canvassers during election years, nonprofit people and "charity" people. Some of these people come quite late. And really, in 2011 do you really think I'm going to give you cash, personal info or even let you look inside my house? Go the f*ck away. And even with the sign some people still knock.

thank you all. this thread had me laughing out loud.

Anonymous wrote:OP, you'd have my sympathy if you were just talking about solicitors--I rarely ever get them and I'd give a pass to scouts or high school kids. But delivery men? Delivering stuff YOU ordered? Come on! And I appreciate the ones that knock rather than just leaving the package and driving away because I don't want my package sitting on my front stop until we go out or DH gets home. Even if I don't urgently need it.

This is what gets me as well. I'd understand if you were talking about solicitors. But you're talking about those who are doing their job by delivering things that you ordered.

Anonymous wrote:The pizza guy just opens the door and whispers?

Yes. Just like that. This particular house is small so he opens the door and I'm usually sitting right there in the living room. I always order from the same place. They know me by now since I work for several families in this neighborhood.