It was all filmed on her Ring doorbell camera
An Essex mum and her neighbour were left furious after a delivery driver was captured urinating just metres from her front door. The shocking episode was filmed on a woman's doorbell camera moments after he dropped a package at her neighbour's home.
The mum-of-two from Rayleigh, who did not want to be named, said she was watching The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe at the theatre when she was contacted by a neighbour who had ordered a parcel and then discovered the disgusting incident on Thursday (April 17). Rushing home, she found her friendly neighbour cleaning up the mess the driver had left behind.
Delivery firm Yodel has since apologised for what happened, saying they have taken "appropriate action" with the driver and are arranging for the area to be professionally cleaned.
One woman said: "I came up the stairs [to her mum's flat where the package was delivered] and thought, what's that smell? I then walked straight into this puddle of urine.
"I texted my neighbour who was in the theatre. She checked her Ring doorbell, and the lovely courier decided to wee on the communal staircase."
Footage filmed from the neighbour's Ring doorbell captured the delivery driver approaching the neighbour's door with a package. He then leaves the package, turning round and appears to spit into a set of trainers left outside the door a home.
He is then seen appearing to touch his belt, and at that stage, the video, which was shared on social media, comes to an end. The delivery driver is understood to have urinated on wooden flooring outside the residents' homes close to a set of stairs.
The delivery driver was filmed dropping off the package before urinating in the corridor (Image: Submitted)
"I was traumatised," said the mum-of-two. "I can hear him doing it [in the full footage]. He spat in my husband's shoes and then urinated on the stairs.
"We live in a really lovely building and have been here for 20 years. We have never experienced anything remotely like this. It broke my heart yesterday. I was so broken by it I could not sleep. It might sound petty but it's our home."
The woman said she was at a theatre show with her family, including one of her sons, aged eight, when it happened, leaving her "really upset and crying".
"We are such a close community, and the fact that my neighbours had to call me when it all happened and had to clean it all up is diabolical," she fumed.
A Yodel spokesperson: "Delivering service excellence for our customers is at the heart of everything we do. We take matters like this very seriously and have taken appropriate action with the driver. We offer our sincere apologies and are arranging for the area to be professionally cleaned."