AIBU to think this was inconsiderate?

I have never wiped my shopping as I don't generally lick or eat the packaging
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Me neither! I do wash my hands after putting it away and new stuff goes at the back anyway.

Our poor delivery driver was late and soaked to the skin yesterday - he'd been on two wild goose chases up in the hills and woods trying to deliver to a couple of holiday cottages where the people had inadvertently given the wrong addresses.

To each his own…….but, where does the wiping stop!!!

I sit at the front door and spray with 99% alcohol before wiping all my shopping, including all carrots, bananas etc using disposable gloves. I also Dettol spray my bags inside and out and leave to dry. Like Hymnbook says who knows if the last person to touch your shopping had unhygienic hands. My DH helps by putting it away for me too. Our kids thinks we’re nuts bh it doesn’t bother me.

Like a few others, I started by wiping my goods at the very beginning but that didn't last long. Definitely think that the person discussed was really unreasonable with no consideration for anyone else. We're now back to our usual Tesco delivery where the driver carries the boxes into the kitchen & I unload them onto the table. Works a treat and is soon done.

Like many people, I did wipe down my shopping at the start of the pandemic as very little was known then about how the virus spreads. I stopped though after just a few weeks as I got sick of tasting detox on my food! It must have been lingering on the outer packaging then when I opened something, transferred to my hands which I then used to pick up the food!

Maybe I over did the spray detox!

I certainly wouldn't hold up the delivery driver from his next call. He has a schedule to follow, bad menners in my opinion.

I wasn't a wiper either.

I have been meaning to ring sainsbury for while as I always get a message telling me to leave bags outside for the Driver to load for the last at least 3 deliveries the drivers seem not to know.

I never wiped my shopping! And only did online shops when we'd managed to get away and had to isolate. Chance of catching the virus off a surface are now acknowledged to be very low, you were more at risk chatting to the driver!!!

I have never wiped the shopping down. I have had deliveries for years ever since they first started and have always wiped down the tops with kitchen spray and have always washed my hands after doing any cleaning. That's just basic hygiene pandemic or not. I agree its not easy to manage brining all these loose items n. Occado still pack it in bags and then take them back the following week.

I will admit to wiping down our groceries in the beginning of the pandemic (there were so many unknowns), but I can’t imagine expecting the delivery driver to stand there and wait! In fact, that just seems like increased exposure for both parties. In our area, grocery deliveries were pre-bagged and left at our doorstop (contactless delivery). We wiped things down one by one as we put them away. Sounds silly now.

We shop for my 91 year old Father in Law, we bring it in, he puts on gloves, spraysit all and leaves it for 1 hrs on the draining board, then wipes and puts away. Doesn't worry at all about us having been to the supermarket etc...

Gabrielle I’m very intrigued as to what you mean re: finding some gym member’s underwear to be gross. Is this a perversion?

I wipe my shopping down and will continue to do so. Have you all thought about where your groceries have been before they arrive at your door? How many people have touched them where have they been are they ill? It's no hardship to do it. Besides even without Covid some containers are very dirty milk cartons for instance . Just take every precaution.

I have never wiped my groceries down.

Apart from the usual washing of fresh produce I have never wiped food.

My SIL was delivering during the lockdowns and he would deliver to people who would take the crates off him, unpack their shopping and then return the crates to him. He lost count of how many would do this and then proceed to tell him about how they were isolating as they had COVID!
My stepdad still doesn't like handling the deliveries so he leaves his car boot ajar and lets the drivers leave his goods in the boot. It is then quarantined until he considers it is safe!

My Tesco delivery comes every 4 weeks. In 20 years I've never wiped anything and there is no good reason I can see for doing it now. If something has leaked then it is taken away and refunded immediately.

We get a different driver each week from Sainsbury's.They bring the shopping in large crates to the porch door and we unload it into washing baskets which were recommended by them last year. I put it away disinfect the baskets and the table and wash my hands. I've never left the poor things on the step waiting. They are on a tight schedule.
Though I do know people who disinfect every item when they get it indoors and are disgusted with me for putting it on a table. It saves all the bending.

Covid doesn’t live on surfaces!!! How many times do people need telling? These people who have an obsession with wiping things must have an anxiety condition about lots of things. How inconsiderate towards the driver and as the the above comment about someone saying they have to get back inside as they all have covid!!! That is disgusting treatment of people who have to continue to work during lock downs and a pandemic. Just who do they think they are???

I have never wiped my shopping as I don't generally lick or eat the packaging. I wash my hands thoroughly after I have done my quick scan shop, as I always did before covid19. It strikes me as a bit obsessive to wipe every packet and tin, but each to their own!

Here`s a question then...

if the virus is not attaching to items , ie. goods delivered,
why do we have to wash our hands after handling?

Anyone? I just think too much

Oofy yes, I can see it claims to kill viruses too.
Some posters kept mentioning eliminating bacteria.

Don’t think Dettol would be allowed to put this on its packaging if not true. Maybe Covid19 is the 0.1% not killed. More of an issue is that you are unlikely to wipe the nooks and crannies of the entire package of every item. Coronavirus persists for 3 days on plastic and metal, and about 24 hours on paper and cardboard, apparently, or so I have read

I think that was inconsiderate to the driver. His round would take forever if everyone did that. Quite unnecessary as well.
No home deliveries here, we just shop as usual but less frequently. Hand washing and sanitising is the way to go. Anti bacterial wipes are not effective against a virus as Calistemon said. I think it's more of a feel good factor to wipe down surfaces etc.