What should I do with the neighbours parcel?

[TheDoctor]

Wasn't there some great idea the post office had a year or so ago that by default if you weren't home they would deliver your parcel to a neighbour. I thought it was a stupid idea because Mrs Doseone is forever ordering stuff off Lovehoney.

You have to opt out if you don't want it.

Photos OIDH!

 

[Doseone]

Photos OIDH!

Here you go

 

[byegad]

Putting a note through the door and telling them they have a couple of days to collect it and then it goes on the doorstep may well work, but if they don't come Porcel Farce have your signature. So maybe you'd be liable, having accepted it in the first place. Next time you'll know not to take it in!

 

[ComedyPilot]

Too heavy to drop-kick over the fence?

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

I had a parcel the other day that turned up on the doorstep already opened at one end. Turns out they had delivered it to the wrong house (quite how, its usually the same postie and he knows who we are), and the old couple who got it never thought to look at the address on it.

I kind of wish it had been something to shock them now, but it wasn't, it was an old Lima bodyshell from a model of 47846 Thor.... in the late '90s/early '2000s Great Western green livery (which admittedly must have caused a fair bit of confusion in itself!).

 

[Steve Malkin]

If you kick it really hard do the contents sound broken?

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

FFS! Just open it and then once your curiosity has been slaked, seal it back up again with identical/similar looking tape or whatever!!
Just remember to do it at a time when they are not likely to come and pick it up.

 

[Custom24]

FFS! Just open it and then once your curiosity has been slaked

I think it is the forum's curiosity, rather than the op's, which needs slaking.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

I had something similar happen except the parcel had been delivered to me in error, my son signed for it thinking it was for us. I had it for over a week. In the end I took it to the post office and asked them to take it back, they refused as it was delivered by parcel force which apparently is nothing to do with the post office. I took it back home and tossed it into the bin.

I take it you did take it to the right address? Also, what was the recipient's excuse for not picking it up? Finally, you chucked it without even opening it? (You could say you opened it in error like my parcel), what a wasted opportunity potentially! Where is your imagination, your curiosity??!!

The next day they came round and asked for their parcel, luckily the bin men had not come so was able to dig it back out of the bin.

Yeah I bet they were really chuffed about that! I mean, I hope it never happens to me, but there must be a whole gamut of reasons why someone might not pick up a parcel straight away, and if someone had thrown away something of mine because, say, it was a pre order and it came whilst I was away, or I had suddenly taken ill or whatever, I would not be very pleased at all. I know there has to be a limit and all, but imagine it happened to you with something expensive or valuable, would you be happy?

Why had they not come to pick it up beforehand?

I now have one of those stickers on the door saying not to leave my deliveries with anyone else which I believe also means they will not leave other peoples items with me also.

Personally I just wish they would leave parcels in the greenhouse round the back or similar, but they never do.

 

[asterix]

'ere in France we all have quite large lockable mail boxes. Postie has a universal key so can put stuff in quite easily.

Must say if they left anything with my neighbours in the UK I'd never expect my neighbours to bring it round, I go round and wring it out of them. One guy was actually watching my DVD once when I turned up. Shoulda been 'The Last Picture Show' as far as he was concerned.*

*actually that only happened once; they have all been very good since then.

 

[Puddles]

I do know my postman, he is called Tony, we do not like it when we get a different one, if he has to deliver parcels and I am not in he just goes through the gate into the garden and pops it somewhere under cover and leaves a note through the door, Maj knows him so lets him in and out.

I take in lots of parcels for both the next doors and sometimes across the road, because I appear to be the one most likely to be home at the right time, December last year was challenging as my hallway looked like a parcel depot, they all come round really quickly as soon as they are in and all say thank you lots so I don't mind. As my parents also live near they leave a note on their door saying to deliver it to me if they are not in.

A couple of times I have received flowers or chocolates because the item has been large and unwieldy and a right PITA to have in the hallway so all in all I do not mind here.

 

[rich p]

I dropped a parcel I'd taken in round to a woman down the road, when I saw that she was in. She asked me if she needed to sign for it, clearly not recognising me, despite the fact we'd lived 5 doors apart for years. I'd even admired her breasts all those years but I suppose she wasn't to know that.

 

[Lance Jack]

I am a Postie and I have these sorts of things happen a lot. I ring the bell or knock on the door and wait, after a while I knock again and then write one of those cards out everybody loves. I post it through the door and as I am walking away somebody will open the door and just look at me.

As per rich p's comment, I also admire nice breasts when women come to the door semi naked.

 

[vernon]

As per rich p's comment, I also admire nice breasts when women come to the door semi naked.

My breasts startle posties when I come to the door semi naked.

 

[Moon bunny]

Thanks for the tread title by the way. Hover fly read it and is now washing up while singing it, to the tune of a well kown sea shanty.