briantrumpet
Legendary Member
- Location
- Devon & Die
Now we know how you got your name!
Parcels delivered fro someone else - What is the norm??
- Thread starter ebikeerwidnes
- Start date
Page may contain affiliate links. Please see terms for details.
Now we know how you got your name!
- Location
- Glasgow
Yes, we do that too here in my street.
Not everybody has an enclosed porch like me, so if parcels are left exposed to the elements/passers by, next door neighbour will move them to a safe area.
Most of us are out working, some of us are on longer shifts or away on jobs for a couple of days.
We also have a local FB page, sometimes I see people from a few streets further up asking who's got their package, usually they find it.
HLaB
Marie Attoinette Fan
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
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
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.
Also if parcels just get dumped on their doorstep I retrieve them and drop them back round when they return.
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
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
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.
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.
ClichéGuevara
Legendary Member
- Location
- Kingston upon the River Hull
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.
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
Legendary Member
- Location
- Devon & Die
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
Heavy Metal Fan
- Location
- Plymouth
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
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
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.
Last edited:
Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
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.
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.
wiggydiggy
Legendary Member
I think I've only had 2 parcels for neighbours, and they had 1 of mine, so 3 in total in neary 3 years here. We all WFH or are retired layabouts so generally we're in to receive things.
I do use parcel drop off at lockers or shops a lot, and its really convenient when ordering for others as I just get the stuff delivered to their local parcel drop off and let them know when its there.
I do use parcel drop off at lockers or shops a lot, and its really convenient when ordering for others as I just get the stuff delivered to their local parcel drop off and let them know when its there.
presta
Legendary Member
I once had a card through the door telling me there was a parcel left in the wheelie bin.
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.
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.
