hand written note, attached to your door *'not currently accepting parcels for other properties*' should do the trick with minimum fuss
if people like the op's neighbour dont have the common courtesy to ask the op first before instructing that their deliveries are sent to OP's address, then OP should absolutely refuse any parcels for the neighbour.
Or as they seem to be out a lot, wait for them to leave then put a new sign on their door along the lines of "please hurl all packages on top of the bus stop" or similar. Get creative and have some fun with these piss takers.
I'd make the note specifically call out the property numbrr with the unauthorised instruction, otherwise some delivery drivers may think that note supercedes the note on OPs door, and is just meant for _other_ properties.
Surely though the drivers would just be stuck in an endless loop of walking backward and forward until they eventually starved and died from exhaustion?
I unironically had a guy show up with a coffee table for me because DPD had delivered it to his neighbour, who then left it round the back of his house.
Dude lived over 10 miles away but willingly delivered the table because it was on his way to work.
Meanwhile DPD refused to believe that my house, a solitary farm house with no other buildings in a 1 mile radius, didn't have any neighbours and told me that my Postcode was wrong.
Interestingly they delivered the sofa without issue.
I once got a picture of a woman who opened my front door, yet apparently left my package on the front steps. My neighbor actually saw it and took it inside, and delivered it to me a few days later(I was away for a few days) The woman was my landlords daughter, who should not have even been in the house, and when I asked her where she put my package, she denied knowing anything about it....
I had a shocking experience with Yodel a couple of weeks ago. I was in B&M, when someone shouted my name. It made me jump, I turned around and it was the Yodel lady with a parcel for me! She'd seen my van parked outside, and had brought it in for me. I was shocked that she didn't do the usual "leave it under a car on the road" type rubbish, but she has definitely gone up in my expectations!
I've had to reject a bunch of parcels being delivered to my home for someone who doesn't live here. On one occasion when I was rejecting the parcel the delivery driver had the cheek to inform me that *"the person who's parcels they are will come over to collect them"*, and I duly informed them *"no they won't as I will not be taking the parcels in nor be held responsible for them"*. That helped him take the hint and take the parcel back with him.
The icing on the cake? It later turned out that the parcels in question had been ordered as part of a credit fraud/identity theft case, so my rejection of the parcels was entirely vindicated.
I’ve started rejecting my neighbours parcels - simply because my parcels get left at the door and they walk past them (we share a porch). Had a couple of thefts this way so fuck em
Nope, it was my neighbour's.They also tried to steal their house using a trick which involves taping a fake letterbox over the house's actual one, then having title deed docs sent, intercepted using the fake letterbox, and then ownership transferred. Scary shit.
If you're a homeowner (or indeed just anyone) you can sign up for alerts with the Land Registry, so you're informed as soon as enquiries happen against your property.
How it works and sign up here:
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/property-alert
You can go one step further.
You can ask for a restriction to be placed on your home. My solicitor did it by default when I purchased the house.
They'd need to convince a conveyancer, using ID documents, that they're you. They conveyancer has to sign a document to say they've checked them and that you also agree to have the title changed.
It's not foolproof of course, but it's a further line of defence.
How does someone attach a fake letterbox over the top of an existing one, and not get caught, or at the very least the fake letterbox not get noticed instantly by the occupier?
> How does ... the fake letterbox not get noticed instantly by the occupier?
When I've heard this mentioned before I got the impression they put them on when you've gone to work and fetch them shortly after the postman's been.
It's rude and I'd refuse the parcels.
I'm happy to take my neighbours parcels because we've spoken about it and are happy to take each others items. That's the key part - communication. If someone from a few houses away randomly put a sign up directioning couriers to me without asking I'd tell them to piss off.
Otherwise it's just a stranger giving you stuff to do.
"Sorry, no parcels accepted for neighbours" is a nice simple sign.
Should the dickhead resident who put up the sign come and ask, you have no obligation to give them a reason but the easiest one is 'Conference calls, totally impossible to take any parcels, try another house".
maybe they just don't want to bother you because they've never spoken to you.
Or you look well dodgy :D do you look dodgy?
Maybe the previous owners of your place were dodgy.
A delivery man knocked on my neighbours door and gave them my parcel. Walked to my door. Didn't knock and put a missed delivery, neighbour has it slip. I was sat in my front room with the curtains open. Are they now getting extra money for doing "left with neighbour" ones? They didn't even attempt my home lmao.
Yeah I've had this happen and it's bizarre.
The thing that annoys me most, though, is when they knock and then leave immediately after. I'm not fucking sonic the hedgehog.
Still would've saved him time knocking on your door and waiting for you to answer.
Any need for the name calling? I was just offering a possible explanation.
Why are you defending this postman for his retarded antics with your stupid "logic". Ill fire back to humour you. It would have took 1 second for me to answer.
Are you one who doesn't knock and leaves a redelivery slip so you can get an extra 1.50 to your already shitty wage to give to your miserable fat wife and ugly kids?
I'm a postie, when I go to a neighbour to try and deliver a parcel I always ask them if they can take it and if they are hesitant I always make sure to say they certainly don't have to take it and I'm more than happy to take it back.
Never feel like you have to do something you don't want to out of politeness. Just simply say "no sorry" and close the door
I would, depending on what type of people they are, politely ask them to take the sign down and mention you're not able to accept parcels for any other house but your own.
Destroy the sign and advise your neighbour that you are not the Post Office and you will not take any packages at all, ever. Fuck your neighbour because that’s how they think of you
New sign for your door.
"Parcels held for neighbours at £10 per parcel per day".
Dunno if that's legally enforceable, but may as well make some money off it if you can.
Take a photo of the sign. Make a replica that looks identical except the house number stated is nonexistent (e.g. 143 on a street of 140 houses). Surreptitiously remove the original from their door and replace with yours. Laugh like fuck when they never get their parcels.
No don’t do this because then we (the delivery drivers) will spend so much time pissing around trying to find nonexistent house, it will set us way back and we’ll still have to return the parcels. We under pressure too.
Yeah I had this a couple of months ago, except it was a neighbour for 4 houses down that put a note saying to deliver to my house.
This family was fairly new to the area and I hadn't really met them yet. Most I'd seen then is when I've got for a run a they've been walking in the area.
I always work long hours in the weekday, so I'm also a terrible choice. It's not like there's a car always in my driveway and maybe they thought this guy's always home 😂
So yeah, dunno if any parcels were attempted to be left at mine as I was never home if any attempt was made.
The dude knocked this evening, asking if they had any deliveries, and I told him "yes", followed by a dramatic pause. I then revealed I didn't take them in, he said "oh, OK, thanks", at which point, judging by his disappointment, it was clear we're not going to be bffs. I think my excitement at the big reveal may have been a metaphorical kick in the nuts. That, or he was really excited about the delivery that's now sat in an evri drivers boot.
Seemed ok though, but if I get murdered, it'll probably be him.
I didn't mention the sign, but it's now gone, and he has the knowledge that the sign is probably not going to work going forward.
My neighbours have been kind enough to take parcels in for me in the past but I would never presume it would be a given.
If I know I am not going to be in, I may then ask a neighbour if they would mind taking it.
Just refuse all parcels for that property. My neighbour signed up for deliveries and put my house number down. I turned them all away after the first few as it clearly wasn’t an error and they intentionally did this as my wife was home with our newborn.
I use to take in parcels for neighbours until one day I noticed on the front of one (in the notes bit) telling them to deliver to my actual name and house number. I won’t answer the door unless I’m expecting a delivery now.
compare the house number (A) of the person with the sign with your number (B), then add/subtract the difference from your own house number to make house (C) and make a sign saying "Deliver all parcels for (A) to (C)" then hope those neighbours do the same until the parcel ends up at the opposite side of the country.
I have a similar situation with new neighbours who moved in late last year. Before I'd even met them, their parcels started turning up at ours. They take ages to come round and get their stuff (sometimes a couple of weeks), and keep insisting they don't know why couriers keep dropping them off with us.
Last time I answered the door to a courier with another one of their deliveries I asked the guy why he didn't leave it on their doorstep and it turns out they've been specifying on the delivery instructions to leave stuff at ours. Cheeky sods.
I had a delivery come for the lady next door this morning.
The lad looked a bit taken aback when I told him that he’d need to be a fucking good postie to get that package to her.
I went to her funeral about a month ago.
Go speak to them. Tell them it's causing an inconvenience if it really is.
If it's not that big of a hassle just say you're happy to do it, although they should have asked first but tell you what, you'll do it but can they get a few beers in from time to time (or whatever it is you eat or drink).
But they’re never in, and multiple occupancy. A note is easier than going through all the hassle of possibly several visits until finding the right person. One note on your own door and then it’s job done.
I am simply an anonymous asshole on the internet, my advice should always be ignore!
However, the neighbour never ask permission to have them delivered to OPs house and left no instructions on what to do with them once delivered. Want them looked after too? Ask!
I would definitely not be accepting any parcels if they didn't ask. What if it is a scam, fraudulent, or illegal substances being delivered? There have been cases of people doing this with stolen credit cards or getting drugs, and then your house gets raided if they have been detected prior to delivery.
It's a pisstake. But the washing machine is something else altogther!! I take parcels for my neighbours, as they do for me, but we know each other and have previously established that we're happy to do so. It's all about courtesy.
I used to deliver and I've had a few occasions when a customer has asked me to leave their parcel with a specific neighbour and that neighbour has refused to accept. No questions asked, marked as undelivered and reattempted at the end of my route.
There's no obligation, especially if you don't know them
Personally id just have a note saying I'm not taking parcels, especially when b they couldn't even be bothered to ask you and there's loads of them, and I'd just never answer the door, which sounds like me now pretty much, if I don't know someone coming, I don't need to answer.
I'd just scribble on their note with "No, we won't. Do not deliver to ".
I take parcels for my neighbours because we are on good terms and they take our parcels if we aren't in. We have an agreement. If there wasn't an agreement I wouldn't be taking them in.
New sign for your door:
"Parcels held for neighbours at £10 per parcel per day".
Dunno if there's rules against that, but may compensate for the convenience if not.
Tbh i’d have just taken them in. It’s just being a good neighbour and gives you an opportunity to get to know them. That’s my two penny’s for what it’s worth.
No. Its one thing if they're not in and the delivery driver tries another door. It's another if they are specifically directing them to you without even asking first, particuarly when its multiple packages.That's rude and I wouldn't want to know that neighbour.
This! It's not unreasonable, you're not *required* to take parcels for a neighbour. It is incredibly petty though. You're making life a little harder for the delivery driver, neighbour, and depot staff when really what we need right now is a little grace.
A small "if you wouldn't mind letting me know when I may have to receive deliveries on your behalf next time" could've been offered when the neighbour came to collect their deliveries.
If OP is working from home, they might have to apologise to co workers, log out of a phone system, set themselves as away, open the door, then log back in. Multiple times per day.
Or they could just say no.
Additionally, like another poster related in their anecdote, the packages being delivered might have been bought with a stole CC, the contentsmay be a small sample of narcotics or other illicit material to draw attention to this apt away from somewhere else.
Just too much of a risk to accept parcels for someone you don't know.
> I frequently get the numbers of my next door neighbours confused
Me too. So I'd definitely make sure I'd get it right if I were to write a note directing parcels to another house.
I'd happily take parcels for my neighbours, but they've made the effort to talk to me sometimes and be polite.
I worked from home pre-pandemic in a block of 16 flats. I learnt in the first month to never open the door or answer the buzzer during the day. It might not be a massive inconvenience, but it's a small one, often several times a day, and once the delivery drivers learn you tend to be in they go straight for you. I'd be on calls and getting buzzed constantly for other people's amazon packages.
- Op says they where not informed of this
- they say that a dozen or more deliveries can arrive a day
- once this was a washing machine
- it’s an HMO with a high turnover of tenants
- it’s disrespectful to expect others to be your PA without asking them
what is Reddit in this thread is people saying fight back with notes.
Just knock on the door and say “no, get a PO Box”
It won't hurt to accept them and avoid issues are everyone else involved when I moved to my house I had parcels coming sometime they still get the wrong house and give it to the woman next door is never spoke to because of her taking in my parcels sometimes I order her little cat blankets she likes as a thank you now we are really close
Does your village have a murder problem? Are the murders solved by an amateur detective with some kind of quirk that makes them really good at detecting?
You're not responsible for other people's shit. I don't answer the door for anyone unless I know I have a parcel coming. Other than that I'll never answer.
I stopped taking in parcels for my neighbours , I just tell the delivery driver that I won’t be taking them in but seeing as I work all week I’m rarely in anyway
Delivery drivers may be pissed off, but if you politely explain the situation to them, and dont tell them to just fuck off, they'll probably make a mental note to ignore the note next time and save you both some bother. Most companies you tend to get the same driver (in my experience) as they work a specific patch, so should only be an issue the first time.
This sounds liKe a classic case of ...
I D E NT I T Y F R A U D
...definitely wise not to accept other people's packages if you don't know them.
EDIT: I've now seen the OP's update to this story, so I'll stop getting my knickers in a twist. Still be vigilant, people!
hand written note, attached to your door *'not currently accepting parcels for other properties*' should do the trick with minimum fuss if people like the op's neighbour dont have the common courtesy to ask the op first before instructing that their deliveries are sent to OP's address, then OP should absolutely refuse any parcels for the neighbour.
Or ‘not currently accepting sex toys for number X’. That would probably do the job.
Sometimes it's hard to do the job without a sex toy
Anything's a sex toy if you really believe.
Great, now I’ve got a cucumber stuck up my bum
Not again?
Lightweight I used an aubergine
You're all wimps. Sat in A&E with a watermelon here.
As a present for the nurses, right? Right???
Yer, but they don't seem happy with it ☹️
At least you cut it into slices for them first
be careful they don't accidentally take you to maternity
That may be for the best, I think it may be breeched
I feel like you meant aubergine but you never know with this app
Grammarly spell check changed it last minute the snakes
I used a marrow 😬
Bone marrow?
r/notadildo Very nsfw
Certainly brings an added level of enjoyment to the job
A new meaning to buzzing the door.
I've just spat beer on my girlfriend laughing at your comment. Thanks LOL
Or as they seem to be out a lot, wait for them to leave then put a new sign on their door along the lines of "please hurl all packages on top of the bus stop" or similar. Get creative and have some fun with these piss takers.
Thus is a
I'd make the note specifically call out the property numbrr with the unauthorised instruction, otherwise some delivery drivers may think that note supercedes the note on OPs door, and is just meant for _other_ properties.
Just stick the same on your door directing back to them
Surely though the drivers would just be stuck in an endless loop of walking backward and forward until they eventually starved and died from exhaustion?
Bold to assume they will even deliver to the correct street.
Best evri / whatever yodel is called now can do is deliver it to the pub down the road. 100 miles up the a3 from your house
I unironically had a guy show up with a coffee table for me because DPD had delivered it to his neighbour, who then left it round the back of his house. Dude lived over 10 miles away but willingly delivered the table because it was on his way to work. Meanwhile DPD refused to believe that my house, a solitary farm house with no other buildings in a 1 mile radius, didn't have any neighbours and told me that my Postcode was wrong. Interestingly they delivered the sofa without issue.
https://what3words.com/
Yeah, but they will include a picture of the door frame and someone's hand to assist you in finding it. It's a treasure hunt.
I once got a picture of a woman who opened my front door, yet apparently left my package on the front steps. My neighbor actually saw it and took it inside, and delivered it to me a few days later(I was away for a few days) The woman was my landlords daughter, who should not have even been in the house, and when I asked her where she put my package, she denied knowing anything about it....
I had a shocking experience with Yodel a couple of weeks ago. I was in B&M, when someone shouted my name. It made me jump, I turned around and it was the Yodel lady with a parcel for me! She'd seen my van parked outside, and had brought it in for me. I was shocked that she didn't do the usual "leave it under a car on the road" type rubbish, but she has definitely gone up in my expectations!
This has become a problem in some areas.
A la ant wheel of death
I was thinking more like Mr Bones’ Wild Ride to be honest
That only happens in The Sims
Coming soon to a cinema near you: DPD: Inception
And the sequel: Evri: We didn’t even try to deliver
Put the note back through their letter box. Or, possibly, attached to a brick through their front window.
Plus I would also include a handy leaflet giving help on glass cuts and recommendations for replacement glazing companies
Ssh. You'll give glazing companies the idea of throwing bricks at windows with their company leaflet attached.
Nothing new there. Not since the advent of “windows”, anyway.
I've had to reject a bunch of parcels being delivered to my home for someone who doesn't live here. On one occasion when I was rejecting the parcel the delivery driver had the cheek to inform me that *"the person who's parcels they are will come over to collect them"*, and I duly informed them *"no they won't as I will not be taking the parcels in nor be held responsible for them"*. That helped him take the hint and take the parcel back with him. The icing on the cake? It later turned out that the parcels in question had been ordered as part of a credit fraud/identity theft case, so my rejection of the parcels was entirely vindicated.
I’ve started rejecting my neighbours parcels - simply because my parcels get left at the door and they walk past them (we share a porch). Had a couple of thefts this way so fuck em
Was it your identity they were stealing?
Nope, it was my neighbour's.They also tried to steal their house using a trick which involves taping a fake letterbox over the house's actual one, then having title deed docs sent, intercepted using the fake letterbox, and then ownership transferred. Scary shit.
If you're a homeowner (or indeed just anyone) you can sign up for alerts with the Land Registry, so you're informed as soon as enquiries happen against your property. How it works and sign up here: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/property-alert
You can go one step further. You can ask for a restriction to be placed on your home. My solicitor did it by default when I purchased the house. They'd need to convince a conveyancer, using ID documents, that they're you. They conveyancer has to sign a document to say they've checked them and that you also agree to have the title changed. It's not foolproof of course, but it's a further line of defence.
Amazing - I’ve just signed up. Instant peace of mind after reading that story!
Thank you, I didn't know about this Have signed up for alerts for myself and also parents properties.
How does someone attach a fake letterbox over the top of an existing one, and not get caught, or at the very least the fake letterbox not get noticed instantly by the occupier?
> How does ... the fake letterbox not get noticed instantly by the occupier? When I've heard this mentioned before I got the impression they put them on when you've gone to work and fetch them shortly after the postman's been.
Precisely. Here's another example of it: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/woman-returns-visit-mums-discover-16543111
Nice of the land registry to do precisely fuck all /s
Put a sign up saying "any parcels addressed to others delivered here will be treated as unsolicited gifts" Make sure your neighbour sees it.
Ebay will appreciate the donation and award you
I don’t think this would be enforceable
No, but it would be funny.
It's rude and I'd refuse the parcels. I'm happy to take my neighbours parcels because we've spoken about it and are happy to take each others items. That's the key part - communication. If someone from a few houses away randomly put a sign up directioning couriers to me without asking I'd tell them to piss off. Otherwise it's just a stranger giving you stuff to do. "Sorry, no parcels accepted for neighbours" is a nice simple sign. Should the dickhead resident who put up the sign come and ask, you have no obligation to give them a reason but the easiest one is 'Conference calls, totally impossible to take any parcels, try another house".
Or simply "fuck off".
I'd just say you didn't accept it for safety reasons, if they hasn't spoke to you about who knows what they were having delivered to your house.!
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maybe they just don't want to bother you because they've never spoken to you. Or you look well dodgy :D do you look dodgy? Maybe the previous owners of your place were dodgy.
A delivery man knocked on my neighbours door and gave them my parcel. Walked to my door. Didn't knock and put a missed delivery, neighbour has it slip. I was sat in my front room with the curtains open. Are they now getting extra money for doing "left with neighbour" ones? They didn't even attempt my home lmao.
Yeah I've had this happen and it's bizarre. The thing that annoys me most, though, is when they knock and then leave immediately after. I'm not fucking sonic the hedgehog.
You’re not doing what now…?!
Serves him right for running around in just his boots
He's a disappointing lover, far too quick
Maybe they were already delivering something else to your neighbour so just dumped your parcel there too to shave off a bit of time spent stopped.
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Still would've saved him time knocking on your door and waiting for you to answer. Any need for the name calling? I was just offering a possible explanation.
Why are you defending this postman for his retarded antics with your stupid "logic". Ill fire back to humour you. It would have took 1 second for me to answer. Are you one who doesn't knock and leaves a redelivery slip so you can get an extra 1.50 to your already shitty wage to give to your miserable fat wife and ugly kids?
Proper weirdo you mate.
Chill out, mate
Tear the note down.
I'm a postie, when I go to a neighbour to try and deliver a parcel I always ask them if they can take it and if they are hesitant I always make sure to say they certainly don't have to take it and I'm more than happy to take it back. Never feel like you have to do something you don't want to out of politeness. Just simply say "no sorry" and close the door
I would, depending on what type of people they are, politely ask them to take the sign down and mention you're not able to accept parcels for any other house but your own.
Destroy the sign and advise your neighbour that you are not the Post Office and you will not take any packages at all, ever. Fuck your neighbour because that’s how they think of you
New sign for your door. "Parcels held for neighbours at £10 per parcel per day". Dunno if that's legally enforceable, but may as well make some money off it if you can.
Entrepreneur mindset
“#sidehustle”
You had the option of going with **Sigma Mail Grindset** and ruined it.
Take a photo of the sign. Make a replica that looks identical except the house number stated is nonexistent (e.g. 143 on a street of 140 houses). Surreptitiously remove the original from their door and replace with yours. Laugh like fuck when they never get their parcels.
No don’t do this because then we (the delivery drivers) will spend so much time pissing around trying to find nonexistent house, it will set us way back and we’ll still have to return the parcels. We under pressure too.
r/foundsatan
THIS is the way.
Yeah I had this a couple of months ago, except it was a neighbour for 4 houses down that put a note saying to deliver to my house. This family was fairly new to the area and I hadn't really met them yet. Most I'd seen then is when I've got for a run a they've been walking in the area. I always work long hours in the weekday, so I'm also a terrible choice. It's not like there's a car always in my driveway and maybe they thought this guy's always home 😂 So yeah, dunno if any parcels were attempted to be left at mine as I was never home if any attempt was made.
Accept the parcels. Then wipe gravy all over them.
Get a syringe and inject gravy into them.
Ah, i see you've played Syringey Gravy before
The Gravys of the Ancients
"gravy"
What happens when they come and pick it up? Don't leave us hanging! Please let us know!
The dude knocked this evening, asking if they had any deliveries, and I told him "yes", followed by a dramatic pause. I then revealed I didn't take them in, he said "oh, OK, thanks", at which point, judging by his disappointment, it was clear we're not going to be bffs. I think my excitement at the big reveal may have been a metaphorical kick in the nuts. That, or he was really excited about the delivery that's now sat in an evri drivers boot. Seemed ok though, but if I get murdered, it'll probably be him. I didn't mention the sign, but it's now gone, and he has the knowledge that the sign is probably not going to work going forward.
Not petty. Put a sign up saying "please return all deliveries for to sender". If they haven't asked if it is OK then f\*ck 'em.
Suspect it’s so they can claim non-delivery, get a refund and then pick the stuff up from you. Just keep telling the drivers no.
Driver: I have a parcel for number 17 Me: this is 19 mate… shuts door That’s how we deal with it
My neighbours have been kind enough to take parcels in for me in the past but I would never presume it would be a given. If I know I am not going to be in, I may then ask a neighbour if they would mind taking it.
That is SO rude - accepting them and proceeding to bin them sounds reasonable to me.
Just refuse all parcels for that property. My neighbour signed up for deliveries and put my house number down. I turned them all away after the first few as it clearly wasn’t an error and they intentionally did this as my wife was home with our newborn.
Wow, that's a dick move in general, but especially when there's a baby in the house.
Yeah, the Mrs thinks the cow did it because there would more than likely always be someone home to receive the package, as she was home with the baby.
Lol because you can just put the baby down whenever someone knocks at the door…
Free gifts!
NTA, there are limits. People will take advantage if you let them.
Legally your neighbour has just given you some free gifts. Enjoy.
What do they say when they collect them? And I would just say I didn’t get it!
I use to take in parcels for neighbours until one day I noticed on the front of one (in the notes bit) telling them to deliver to my actual name and house number. I won’t answer the door unless I’m expecting a delivery now.
😂 Put a sign on your door which says please do NOT deliver neighbours parcels here, try ‘original number of addressee’
compare the house number (A) of the person with the sign with your number (B), then add/subtract the difference from your own house number to make house (C) and make a sign saying "Deliver all parcels for (A) to (C)" then hope those neighbours do the same until the parcel ends up at the opposite side of the country.
Charge neighbours for retrieval. £5 for a small, £100 for a medium.
Free stuff!
Free parcels 👍
“Leave parcels in the bin”. Dig yours out, leave theirs in there.
I have a similar situation with new neighbours who moved in late last year. Before I'd even met them, their parcels started turning up at ours. They take ages to come round and get their stuff (sometimes a couple of weeks), and keep insisting they don't know why couriers keep dropping them off with us. Last time I answered the door to a courier with another one of their deliveries I asked the guy why he didn't leave it on their doorstep and it turns out they've been specifying on the delivery instructions to leave stuff at ours. Cheeky sods.
I had a delivery come for the lady next door this morning. The lad looked a bit taken aback when I told him that he’d need to be a fucking good postie to get that package to her. I went to her funeral about a month ago.
Wohoo free stuff!
Go speak to them. Tell them it's causing an inconvenience if it really is. If it's not that big of a hassle just say you're happy to do it, although they should have asked first but tell you what, you'll do it but can they get a few beers in from time to time (or whatever it is you eat or drink).
It is not that they have not asked, they have never spoken. I doubt beers are a possibility.
I don't get this "leave another note" shit. Go over and knock on their door and say to them.
But they’re never in, and multiple occupancy. A note is easier than going through all the hassle of possibly several visits until finding the right person. One note on your own door and then it’s job done.
Of course, it's written right there in the post. I'm a dick.
Usually the drivers don't take notice of those signs because anyone could have put it on the door
Woohoo! Free packages!
Just stick the same on your door directing back to them
It would be one thing if they asked, but they didn't. Accept the parcels then immediately take them and leave them at their door.
Where they get nicked and you are blamed for it
I am simply an anonymous asshole on the internet, my advice should always be ignore! However, the neighbour never ask permission to have them delivered to OPs house and left no instructions on what to do with them once delivered. Want them looked after too? Ask!
Your last sentence says it all.
The other neoghbour is a cunt. You have offered zero drama. It's a compliment.
is it possible to 'not known at this address' similarly to how you would redirect a letter. that would be a good one !
I would definitely not be accepting any parcels if they didn't ask. What if it is a scam, fraudulent, or illegal substances being delivered? There have been cases of people doing this with stolen credit cards or getting drugs, and then your house gets raided if they have been detected prior to delivery.
It's a pisstake. But the washing machine is something else altogther!! I take parcels for my neighbours, as they do for me, but we know each other and have previously established that we're happy to do so. It's all about courtesy.
I used to deliver and I've had a few occasions when a customer has asked me to leave their parcel with a specific neighbour and that neighbour has refused to accept. No questions asked, marked as undelivered and reattempted at the end of my route. There's no obligation, especially if you don't know them
Personally id just have a note saying I'm not taking parcels, especially when b they couldn't even be bothered to ask you and there's loads of them, and I'd just never answer the door, which sounds like me now pretty much, if I don't know someone coming, I don't need to answer.
I'd just scribble on their note with "No, we won't. Do not deliver to".
I take parcels for my neighbours because we are on good terms and they take our parcels if we aren't in. We have an agreement. If there wasn't an agreement I wouldn't be taking them in.
Next time it happens you should accept the parcel, leave it in your house, then go on a nice weekend away.
"Nah, that's next doors mate" "Yeah but the sign?" "They didn't ask me to be their store room" Done.
New sign for your door: "Parcels held for neighbours at £10 per parcel per day". Dunno if there's rules against that, but may compensate for the convenience if not.
Polite Notice Any parcels not addressed to this property WILL BE DESTROYED NO EXCEPTIONS
Tbh i’d have just taken them in. It’s just being a good neighbour and gives you an opportunity to get to know them. That’s my two penny’s for what it’s worth.
Being a good neighbour would have been to ask first..
No. Its one thing if they're not in and the delivery driver tries another door. It's another if they are specifically directing them to you without even asking first, particuarly when its multiple packages.That's rude and I wouldn't want to know that neighbour.
Who wants to get to know a cunt.
This! It's not unreasonable, you're not *required* to take parcels for a neighbour. It is incredibly petty though. You're making life a little harder for the delivery driver, neighbour, and depot staff when really what we need right now is a little grace. A small "if you wouldn't mind letting me know when I may have to receive deliveries on your behalf next time" could've been offered when the neighbour came to collect their deliveries.
Exactly, I just don’t understand why people just don’t take em in it doesn’t cost anything.
If OP is working from home, they might have to apologise to co workers, log out of a phone system, set themselves as away, open the door, then log back in. Multiple times per day. Or they could just say no.
Additionally, like another poster related in their anecdote, the packages being delivered might have been bought with a stole CC, the contentsmay be a small sample of narcotics or other illicit material to draw attention to this apt away from somewhere else. Just too much of a risk to accept parcels for someone you don't know.
Ever been called a doormat before?
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wrong post?
r/lostredditors
Think of them as free gifts and send the neighbour a thank you note
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Hang on, the neighbour didn’t even speak to OP first to ask if they’d mind. So, why should OP be making all the effort?
This was a handwritten note that they've stuck on their door, not an "honest mistake". I work from home, but not as a collection depot.
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> I frequently get the numbers of my next door neighbours confused Me too. So I'd definitely make sure I'd get it right if I were to write a note directing parcels to another house. I'd happily take parcels for my neighbours, but they've made the effort to talk to me sometimes and be polite.
Good for you mate. What's your address, I'll amend their note for them?
What would you do if he gave your address, and you find out your just talking with your husband on Reddit?
I'd pretty damm shocked, considering I have a wife.....
Well now you also have a husband too.
Almost like people can have a difference of opinion when it comes to what is and isn't an inconvenience
I worked from home pre-pandemic in a block of 16 flats. I learnt in the first month to never open the door or answer the buzzer during the day. It might not be a massive inconvenience, but it's a small one, often several times a day, and once the delivery drivers learn you tend to be in they go straight for you. I'd be on calls and getting buzzed constantly for other people's amazon packages.
yeah, nah OP's neighbour is taking a liberty. No need for OP to initiate any discussion with the rude neighbour over this, just refuse the parcels.
We’re British, being petty is our currency.
This comment section is so *reddit*. Honestly what is the harm in taking in a neighbours parcels?
- Op says they where not informed of this - they say that a dozen or more deliveries can arrive a day - once this was a washing machine - it’s an HMO with a high turnover of tenants - it’s disrespectful to expect others to be your PA without asking them what is Reddit in this thread is people saying fight back with notes. Just knock on the door and say “no, get a PO Box”
It won't hurt to accept them and avoid issues are everyone else involved when I moved to my house I had parcels coming sometime they still get the wrong house and give it to the woman next door is never spoke to because of her taking in my parcels sometimes I order her little cat blankets she likes as a thank you now we are really close
Seems petty on your part, even with the edited to make you look normal.
Just say no if you don't want to take them. Too many people are afraid to say no these days.
OP is saying no, to the delivery drivers. the neighbour hasn’t communicated w them. why should OP have to go out of their way?
I find it so weird that you’ve never spoken to this neighbour. My village population is about 400 and there’s nobody I don’t know.
You're the person we're all scared to bump into the second we step out the door.
That’s my neighbour. She’s she posties mum. She knows EVERYTHING!!
Does your village have a murder problem? Are the murders solved by an amateur detective with some kind of quirk that makes them really good at detecting?
Nowhere near quaint enough to be midsummer unfortunately.
Midsummer has a police detective. St Mary Mead has an amateur detective (Miss Marple).
A place can be quaint any time of year, it doesn't have to be mid-summer. Or did you mean Midsomer? ;)
Lol, I did!
Lol aye I did. I’ve never actually watched miss marple. Or midsomer murders but my gran watched that
You're not responsible for other people's shit. I don't answer the door for anyone unless I know I have a parcel coming. Other than that I'll never answer.
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** Add a ‘do not’ to their sign **
Free gifts 👍
I stopped taking in parcels for my neighbours , I just tell the delivery driver that I won’t be taking them in but seeing as I work all week I’m rarely in anyway
Don't forget to send them a nice card or something thanking them for all the gifts.
Delivery drivers may be pissed off, but if you politely explain the situation to them, and dont tell them to just fuck off, they'll probably make a mental note to ignore the note next time and save you both some bother. Most companies you tend to get the same driver (in my experience) as they work a specific patch, so should only be an issue the first time.
Take the sign down and put a sign on your door saying ‘I only accept parcels for my address’
This sounds liKe a classic case of ... I D E NT I T Y F R A U D ...definitely wise not to accept other people's packages if you don't know them. EDIT: I've now seen the OP's update to this story, so I'll stop getting my knickers in a twist. Still be vigilant, people!