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For example: if someone told you that the laundry was dry, instead of just letting you find it out by yourself when you go and check it.

Another example: if someone knocked on your bedroom door to tell you that a package had arrived in the mail, instead of just leaving the package for you to find.

Third example: If someone tells you that there's milk in the fridge, instead of just letting you see it by yourself when you open it.

Is there a word for people like that?

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    I'm not sure that your examples are all comparable. I would want to know that a package had come for me, but I don't care about milk status.
    – nnnnnn
    Commented Oct 9, 2020 at 7:05
  • How would you use the word (in a useful way) in a sentence?
    – Lawrence
    Commented Oct 9, 2020 at 7:34
  • If a package arrived for me I would prefer if my flatmate just left it somewhere where I would see it, instead of knocking on my door to let me know.
    – Jon
    Commented Oct 9, 2020 at 7:36
  • @jon That is beside the point, unless you consider the behaviour of those people for whom you want a name to be not quite proper and then the word you want has to have some negative connotations, be disapproving possibly; that seems to be the case. You'd do well to make precise, if you can, what you reproach these people with.
    – LPH
    Commented Oct 9, 2020 at 7:47
  • Some might say they were kind and considerate. Others might say they were interfering or intrusive. Which do you wish to convey?
    – pbasdf
    Commented Oct 9, 2020 at 8:08

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The comments request a negative word, so you could say that person is a busybody.
Lexico has

busybody
NOUN

A meddling or prying person.
others considered him an interfering busybody

It describes a person who is always poking their nose into other people's business.

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With words it is easy to call the behaviour of a kind, thoughtful person that of a slavey and vice versa.

So, as it is not clear what particular quirk or aspect of behaviour is to be retained, here are several possibilities in a range from disapproving to approving; however, only one single word terms figures in the list; I doubt that very many single word terms should be available.

  • slavey (derogatory meaning perhaps only in AmE)
  • a thoughtful/kind person to the point of intrusiveness
  • too thoughtful/kind a person
  • a thoughtful/kind person
  • a very thoughtful/kind person
  • a helpful person
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  • Urban Dictionary isn't a reliable reference for common usage. Anybody can put up any kind of thing, and "slavey" is at best only used in certain areas/cultures.
    – Stuart F
    Commented Oct 9, 2020 at 10:03
  • @StuartF I think you are right; as I do not depend entirely on Urban Dictionary, which served only my purpose of verifying the disapproving sense that I suspected this word to have in American, I think that my claim is solid enough; however, I should add a precision (perhaps only AmE).
    – LPH
    Commented Oct 9, 2020 at 12:57

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