Parcels delivered fro someone else - What is the norm??

[HLaB]

I usually wait for my neighbour to come round. Couriers are always chucking things over my fence for them because of the way the gardens are laid out. I have occasionally took stuff round to them when I hear activity from their house.

 

[Drago]

I occasionally take items in for my very nice neighbours, and I drop them round when I see theyre home.

Also if parcels just get dumped on their doorstep I retrieve them and drop them back round when they return.

 

[Tenkaykev]

A few weeks ago I watched our local courier walk down the path and turn to our neighbours door. I expected him to ask us to take it in as there were no cars on their driveway so opened our door in expectation. I then heard him chatting to someone and then watched him carry the package back to his van. Evidently he'd been chatting to the neighbour via her wireless doorbell while she was at work. ( The package required a specific signature so couldn't be left with us)

 

[Drago]

Our old neighbours on one side where we used to live were arrissoles. Because of this I refused to take parcels in for them and one courier got jolly batey when I refused. Sorry Joe, not my problem.

The other side were lovely and I was always happy to take items in for them. Indeed, Mrs D receives a monthly box of preprepared injections the need refrigeration and thr nice neighbours were authorised to take them in for us if we weren't home.

Sadly if I'd stayed at the old place much longer I'd have stabbed the arriswipe neighbours.

 

[ianrauk]

We are lucky that our immediate neighbours next door both work from home and are more then happy to take in our deliveries and vice versa. When we moved in we told them that we were going to get a delivery box but they said don't bother.

 

[ClichéGuevara]

I'll take parcels in, and as far as I'm aware my neighbours do the same, and we each try to get it to the neighbour as soon as we are aware that they're at home.

I tend to get mine delivered to the local collection point, partly because my neighbour works shifts and I don't like to think of them being woken up for my parcel.

I received a notification telling me a parcel had been delivered, but I hadn't received it, and no card was put through my door even though I was at home all that day. I called the company, and they (eventually) agreed to send a replacement, which they did.

About a week after that arrived, I spoke to a neighbour across the street and it turns out they'd taken the parcel in, but went away a few days later and hadn't managed to catch me before. It seems the delivery driver dropped mine off with one they received and told them I was out.

I rang the company and told them they could come and collect it, but they were (initially) insistent I post it back, which I was happy to do, but they needed to cover the cost. They declined, and told me to keep it.

Seems an expensive way to resolve one lazy delivery driver.

 

[briantrumpet]

I occasionally take items in for my very nice neighbours, and I drop them round when I see theyre home.

Also if parcels just get dumped on their doorstep I retrieve them and drop them back round when they return.

Ditto.

More recently I bought myself a very mini dustbin that I leave on my doorstep if I'm expecting a parcel that deliveries can be left it. I used the very local Co-op for the first time for a camera that needed a signature and I knew I'd be out (and didn't want to risk no neighbours being in) - it was super-easy.

 

[Electric_Andy]

Not really. They are not working for the delivery company. Up to you to check your notifications.

That's the whole point, we didn't have any notification at all. We didn't know who it had been left with. IMO if you're not prepared to take responsibility to ensure it gets to the right person, then you should not agree to take the parcel.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

IMO if you're not prepared to take responsibility to ensure it gets to the right person, then you should not agree to take the parcel.

You’re assuming they accepted the parcel rather than just got left in their garden. But even if they’ve accepted it, they haven’t agreed to deliver it, just look after it, till the intended person it is for comes and collects it.

 

[Dogtrousers]

I'm a bit surprised by this thread. The rest of the country seems to be awash with parcels going to the wrong address. Just doesn't happen to me, except for during lockdown when everything went a bit haywire.

On the subject of neighbours, I joined a local WhatsApp group during lockdown. To begin with it was lovely and neighbourly. I gave away some excess tomato and chilli plants. How nice. Pretty soon it descended into an opinionated cesspit of antivaxxery. I left.

 

[presta]

I bought myself a very mini dustbin that I leave on my doorstep if I'm expecting a parcel

I once had a card through the door telling me there was a parcel left in the wheelie bin.

 

[Sharky]

We live in Xxxxxxxx Road and less than 2 miles away, there is a Xxxxxxxx Avenue. Not frequent, but on more than one occasion, parcels have been delivered to the wrong one.

Last year, we even had a lorry load of building materials turn up. The delivery note had our address and postcode correct, but the wrong customer name. We guessed that the building yard taking the order, looked up the post code for mistakenly Xxxxxxxxxx road instead of Avenue.

We told the delivery driver where to go.

 

[BoldonLad]

There are so many variables though - I was sent something recently which I didn't know about. I got it the next day, but what if I'd been away for a few days or on holiday... Or I'd taken ill and are in hospital or something?

If you don't know, you don't know. 🤷‍♂️

@Regular.Cyclist I'd never throw anything out, it's not my property. 🤷‍♂️

Parcels are not typically sent spontaneously, without the intended recipient ordering them, in my experience. But, I get your point, there are, sometimes "mitigating circumstances".

 

[BoldonLad]

There's a chance they may not know who's got it. But I always take it to them as soon as they are in, and I expect the same. If it's left with you, you are essentially taking on the responsibility to deliver it safely and timely IMHO. We had one left with opposite neighbour once but we didn't get a note. Took him a week to eventually bring it round, that's rude

That may be your opinion, in my opinion, you are doing the Courier and the neighbour a favour.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

This^^^

Talk to all the neighbours on my road and have a good few of them on WhatsApp so will give them a cheery 'Oi, got a parcel for you when you're passing' message if something arrives. Even have neighbours message me if they know we're away and something gets left visibly on the doorstep or at the back gate. They take it in and keep it safe 👍

You get the community you build IMO.

Same thing here - mostly
It is just this one house that never seems to come to get things and their reaction with one thing was rather "annoyed" rather than grateful

I did take another one round yesterday and they were normal
but we had still had it for over 2 days before we noticed someone was in and I took it round

I was just wondering what people think of as normal as everyone else goes to get their parcel as soon as possible