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

[ebikeerwidnes]

OK - so I am wondering how other people think

If a parcel arrives for a house but the delivery person doesn;t get a reply they often ask neighbours to take it in
and put a note through the door of the person

but if you take in a parcel fro a neighbour then what is considered the norm for what do do after

I am starting this as most of our neighbours come round to get it as soon as they can
If we are going out then we might take it round

but one neighbour nver seems to come round and we always have to take it to them

what do people think is normal??

thanks

 

[accountantpete]

I happily took in a parcel for a neighbour down the road and took it round only to be met with a grunt and a promptly closed door.

Any future parcels for the same address will be soundly shaken to make sure nothing is broken.

 

[si_c]

For either side I run it over the moment I see they are in.

But that's because I've had parcels delivered to either of them in the past (even if I was in the house!) and then marked as delivered to me. So I've had no idea where they were or if just stolen by the driver, easier to drop it in to them and perhaps they can avoid that frustration.

 

[Ajax Bay]

I happily took in a parcel for a neighbour down the road and took it round only to be met with a grunt and a promptly closed door.

I walk any over and if (still) out I leave a note eg "Parcel at No 22").
If I got the ungrateful response as described above, I wouldn't go round again. If it's something they care about they'll be able to track the parcel which will record its location. And if asked to accept again, I'd decline.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

I chuck it over their fence.

 

[sevenfourate]

Depends which neighbour and how high/low they are on my friendly scale!

You mean you have neighbours who talk to you ? Weird concept.

‘All 12 (?)’ in our culdesac had a street party outside at the end of Covid. Not that we had an invite. We just saw it happening out the Window 🤣🤣

 

[Dogtrousers]

I can only recall this happening once. I received the parcel, put it somewhere, and then forgot all about it. I did take it round eventually, about 4 weeks later when I came across it.

 

[Sharky]

We took a delivery the other day for an address that was in a new build and doesn't yet appear on Google maps. It was 10 minutes walk away. I went round and as nobody was in, left a note.

I rang Amazon and they advised to keep the parcel or dispose of it. Presume they send out replacements.

In the meantime, the true recipient called and took the parcel.

A few days later, another parcel turned up. I described to the courier where it should go. By now, I had contact details for the other house and I told them to keep an eye out for. But it never turned up. Presume the parcel got classed as a refusal and would be returned to the depot and a refund to the buyer generated.

 

[grldtnr]

Now as a former postal worker, it was always impressed on us to deliver as addressed, not to neighbours or leave on doorstep, unless given express permission to knock and call on a neighbour, , leave a card to say it's taken back to the office,for pick up or redelivery, do that's how it should be.
When postal market was opened up to competition, other operators would dumb it down, doorstepping or leave with neighbours , or behind whatever, if we did that in the Royal Mail, we would have been disciplined, and rightly so.
Then Royal mail began overrun with the postal market and started dumbing down, standards have slipped, mail or parcels went missing, the post either compensated or business lost out ,with vague claims of missed deliveries.
Now days , it makes my blood boil when I see some off these operators, some do not even attempt a proper delivery ,chuck over a fence or left in plain view simply not acceptable. I myself was a recent victim of such practice, expected a packet , caller said no response, and took it tona safe drop, which wasn't even the stated location but somewhere else!
The upstairs neighbour often gets parcels delivered, the same company operator attempted a large parcel drop, I watched them, knocked on the door , immediately tapped it as undeliverable, then left it outside my back gate, I called him back and said ' deliver as addressed. Or take it back.
Nei' meanwhile neighbour got to the door, driver aggrieved because I upbraided him.
Neighbour never asked him to do that, and I don't want that either.
It's simple , if they are pressured to deliver everything to such strict timing gs and they cannot or are unwilling don't do the work !
A lot of the trouble is companies offering timed deliveries, which are really unattainable , honestly who needs stuff with In minutes, Companies srevecpect6 the workforce to do the unnecessary.

 

[BoldonLad]

I take in parcels for neighbours... but:

I always prompt the delivery person to ensure they have left card saying where parcel is

I expect neighbour to come and collect parcel promptly, particularly if it is large, say 1 day maximum

Any neighbour who does not collect parcels promptly, I don't take in parcels for them after that.

 

[PaulSB]

I would probably say none of the above. We live on a terrace in a village of 35 houses. We all know each other, are friends, neighbours etc. I might bob round, WhatsApp message, leave it in our porch for neighbour to pop round and collect. None of it's a hassle.........except for two households.......

I suppose this is the huge difference between living in a community and an urban environment.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

It depends

 

[Baldy]

It's an almost daily thing around here, there's always somebody who will take it in. Just hand it over when you see them next. No big deal, no one gets excited about it. I guess we're just more laid back than most of the people on here. Y,ll need to chill out.

 

[Regular.Cyclist]

I moved to my current address in January and, for the first few weeks, got a number of packages from the previous folk who lived here. I had no way on contacting them so spoke with neighbours who gave me the address of their business which is just a short walk away. I dropped them round, each time reminding them to update their address. Never got so much as a “sorry” or a “thank you”.

Now, 6 months later, it’s started again. Everything with a return address get returned to sender. Everything else goes in the bin after a couple of weeks.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Any neighbour who does not collect parcels promptly, I don't take in parcels for them after that.

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. 🤷‍♂️