I'll give them full points just for not putting it immediately in front of the door preventing it from being opened, despite the doormat request.
this post was submitted on 23 Oct 2025
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I dunno about malicious, more like dumb request gets dumb results.
Lol I think you just described most malicious compliance posts. Just people throwing logic out the window while making demands, just to be swatted down by their own hubris.
Eh, there isn't anything malicious about this post.
The delivery guy was just being compliant.
I genuinely don't understand this request, is there any size of parcel that is not just an envelope that won't look super obvious under a door mat? Unless you have a cellar door under the mat or something, it makes no sense.
There's cardboard envelopes which often don't fit into mailboxes, but might not be completely obvious under the doormat?
I bet if you ordered a door mat.
(Or a book of stamps, or a comic book, or pet medication, or a set of screws, or a small electronic device, or hair pins, or printer ink, or a million other things I could name that would fit in a small package that could be placed under a door mat
This earns a golf clap. Well done.