Letting a delivery driver use your loo

I have a friend who is paranoid about strangers using her loo!!! She even had workmen working in the house fitting a new kitchen, made them copious cups of tea but refused them toilet facilities!!! She knows it is strange and irrational, but she really does not seem able to help it!!! I would let anyone use my loo, and have, I have been desperate myself and it’s not a nice feeling!

Personally got no problem and if felt unsure would send them down to stables. However a cautionary note. A friend allowed someone to visit the toilet and was left with having to do a full on rubber gloves clean afterwards including the floor

B9exchange, awful experience!!!!! Hope you have an online review. I think I read someone was going to be officially appointed to deal with the lack of toilets. It's a disgrace, it kept women out of public life in the past and still does in some countries.

If I was alone in the house, I would no longer allow an unknown person in to use my toilet or for any other reason,

We hear far too many instances of people having been robbed of cash, bank cards etc. because they let someone in.
Or of the "desperate" person being in league with burgulars and looking for suitable homes to break into.

We do have a large, secluded garden, so my answer would be that the driver, whether male or female, was welcome to find a convenient bush in the back garden.

I would certainly let them use the loo (might need to ask myself sometime). It's a dreadful feeling to need the loo and not have one nearby. Mind you I'd clean thoroughly after use and watch the loo door to make sure they didn't stray elsewhere - you never know nowadays and I live alone now.

A friend who was a police detective said in her area, someone was knocking on doors asking to use the loo as she was pregnant. and urgently needed the loo. People who let her in later found that "small " items had been stolen. eg credit Card. mobile phone. She wasn't a delivery driver. SO Just a general warning.
If anyone is worried about allowing a delivery driver into the house, Some companies put a name on the receipt/ order form that comes with the delivery
I would allow delivery drivers to use our bathroom as it is right by the door so has no entry into the house.

Never had a supermarket delivery, but my mum did and she or he always brought the groceries into the kitchen
If you let her/him in for your own convenience without worrying, myself I'd let them use the loo for their convenience
How shocking they have to pee in bottles.

I suffer from severe Ulcerative Colitis and my life has been changed many ways since diagnosis, I'm also acutely aware of the lack of public toilets...any journey I make is planned around the availability of those facilities.
So I'd be happy to allow anyone to use my bathroom especially if it was a person who had reason to call ie delivering to my home.

You could leave a box of matches. Sulphurous smells disappear. And so does the house...in a puff of smoke!

I live alone and am disabled so it depends on the circumstances. Many of my delivery drivers are familiar to me as I run a business. I would not hesitate to allow them to use the downstairs loo. Similarly the Tesco drivers as I know which company they belong to. None have ever asked.

I would not allow a random workperson unless they were actually doing a job in my house. There are pubs and cafes and garages within a 5 minute drive.

Here is yet another advantage of answering the door using a ring doorbell. If its not a delivery specifically for you then you can always say "sorry Im not at home. Try another house."

Our public toilets have all closed; even local M&S have closed theirs so for me life is more difficult so go on a bus a twenty minute ride away where there are proper facilities. Yes I would let a delivery driver (so long as he was delivering to me and not unknown.).

No I would not offer the use of my facilities, I don't have a downstairs loo and I certainly do not want strangers upstairs in my home.

On Tuesday last week a lady rabbi actually spoke about this on Thought For The Day! I think you can get in on iPlayer.

The Sainsbury's delivery people sometimes ask to use my loo. Yes, I live by myself in a flat, would never have even dreamed of refusing this request OR to be nervous about it.

As my bathroom is only used by visitors (I use my en-suite), I know that it is always clean etc. Check it out after any visitor use it.

For ten years I suffered from Ulcerative Colitus - can remember how urgent it was to find a loo when I needed to go. Back in the eighties there were more public toilets, and I knew every single one and what time they were open on my regular driving routes (taking my children to their activities).

I would NEVER refuse anyone asking to use a loo in my home.

I have but felt uncomfortable as I live alone. But I look at them and think what if he were my grandson. I then do a military clean as I’m prone to,

Just looked it up Dickens, "Over the last two decades, the number of public facilities in the UK has dropped by 39%, while the population has increased by more than eight million."

It's upstairs here and I live alone no dog so it would depend tbh if they were known to me. However there is one in a big garage not too far away.

.....but I really do deplore the lack of public loos or loos in shops.

I think the various companies - Amazon, supermarket chains, etc, should be compelled to 'club' together to provide some kind of 'portakabin'-style toilets strategically placed (and serviced) throughout the country for the specific use of those on whom their business depends. Or fund local councils so that they could provide them.

This is something I have never thought about before.
It must be awful, trying to do your job and needing the loo, public toilets are few and far between.

Our window cleaner once told me we are the only household that offers him a drink!
After our burglary the detectives kept coming to see us for no particular reason, we eventually twigged it was for good coffee, cake and a loo!

So yes I would have welcomed the delivery driver in to use the loo!

We have a downstairs and an upstairs loo so offering the use of toilet facilities wouldn't be a problem. The delivery drivers who do call here don't hang around long enough to even say "hello" - just drop the parcel on the steps and hoppit back to the van. There is a large 24 hour supermarket very close by plus two pubs so I might be inclined to direct someone there if I was on my own at home.

However, during the hot weather we do tell our posties to ask for water if they want a drink - the only time we buy bottled water - and offer the use of the loo should they need it.

For those people worried about being on their own when a driver asks to use the loo. Just pretend to call upstairs to someone so it at least sounds like there is someone else in residence. Might help.

JaxJaxy I too have done the same as you allowed delivery men and women the use of my toilet and given them cold drinks from the fridge when the weathers hot

Last time I was asked was during lockdown when a taxi driver drove my (very poorly) daughter from Liverpool to my Cornwall home for respite care. Of course I said yes.

Previous to that I let a couple I didn't know use my town centre flat to change for a wedding. I'd got talking to them in a café because I'd noticed that they looked panicky; they'd arrived at their holiday let to not be allowed in for several hours and the wedding was imminent. No public loos nearby and anyway she needed a hairdryer. I've never seen anyone so grateful and suspect it's a story that's been told to their friends many times since!

Yes I would, even if I was on my own, I’ve also offered cold drinks (compounding the issue?) when the weather is hot.

I had an engineer here changing my electric meter. He was here quite a while and asked if he could use the downstairs cloakroom. I said yes. It would have seemed churlish to say no.