Handypersons: Can you advise me about fencing my driveway?

[chookie]

I live in a house that has a 150 foot driveway, that passes my neighbor's house, which is on the road, whereas ours sits well off the road.

I have been constantly devilled by delivery drivers being lazy about staying on our gravel driveway, and making deep ruts on my neighbor's beautiful lawn -- which makes my neighbor extremely unhappy, and distresses (emphasis on STRESS) me to face his righteous wrath.

All I want to do is to put some kind of "barrier", even of a symbolic type, to show these stupidos that they have to stay on the gravel and not keep ruining my neighbor's lawn.

I am a clueless urban female, unused to the suburban life, and have absolutely no idea how to go about this.

Is there a clever DUer who can advise me about how this can be accomplished, preferably at as little expense as possible, and something that a small female (me) can do on her own? Please please????

[Nite Owl]

1. How about a couple of trees or shrubs?

Just might look better than a fence and get the same results.

[Lone Pawn]

2. After parrying, don't overextend on your attack.

It'll recover faster than you'd think.

[democracyindanger]

3. Regular deliveries?

Simplest way would be to call the companies and tell them that it's pissing your neighbor off. I know UPS drivers have routes, so you'd only have one driver to inform there. And to make nice-nice with the neighbor, you could tell him that it pisses you off to, being a good neighbor and all, and if it happens again you'd be happy to be a witness if he wanted to file a claim to repair the damage.

[trof]

4. Sticks 'n strings usually work.

But they're pretty tacky.

[trof]

5. OH! OH! Pink plastic flamingos!

Tacky but fun.

[Spinzonner]

6. I don't think getting into a duel with your driveway

will solve the problem

[radwriter0555]

7. Large Rocks.

Work great.

[TreasonousBastard]

8. Somebody beat me to large rocks, but...

easier than dealing with the rocks are those little plastic fencing things sold at garden and home supply places. They're only a foot or so high, cheap, and easy to just push into the ground.

Look around those places, there's lots of stuff that could be used.

The idea isn't to build a barrier, but just a guide so they're more careful entering the driveway.

[jmowreader]

9. Caltrops, or garden border fencing

Plant caltrops about once every five feet along both sides of your driveway. The delivery driver will run over one, suffer two or three flat tires, and learn in a New York minute to stay on people's driveways.

Garden border fencing is cheaper, and more socially-acceptable.