Taking in neighbours parcels?

Some of you don't sound very friendly neighbours to have.

I didn’t tell them a thing, anne I expect they figured it out though!!

muffinthemoo they are truly horrible people! I hope you told them.

I take in parcels for my immediate neighbours and they do the same for me, sometimes I deliver the parcels to them but most times they collect them from me. Twice in six months doesn't seem much to me.

I take their parcels round at a time convenient to me if I can. Then you don't get them them ringing the doorbell when you've just sat down to eat etc.

I take in parcels when necessary but do ask for a phone number so I can ring and advise where it is and when I'm available etc.

My next door neighbours saw me loaded into the car in established labour with number two (several weeks early). Waved us off and everything.

Husband got home after the big show was over to find a note through our door saying that we owed them an apology as someone had tried to deliver them a buggy (oh the humanity!) and they had been “forced” to refuse it and we needed to organise ourselves better.

NB there was already a note on our front door explicitly saying NEVER to try and deliver anything to any neighbour but return to delivery depot.

That was the point at which husband stopped cutting their extensive hedges free gratis and they now pay a company to come four times a year.

I am so glad to be moving from here.

Our storm porch is always unlocked during the day and the various delivery men seem to know this now. We take in parcels for our neighbours who work, and for our daughters who also work and have no-one to take in parcels for them nor anywhere parcels could be safely left. No problem at all, we're happy to do it, sometimes several times a week.

I shop online a LOT and occasionally our neighbours take parcels in for us and we always go to collect as soon as we get home. Whenever possible I give delivery services details of a safe place on our property to leave parcels if we're not in. We've never lost anything yet!

It's true some delivery men don't leave cards if you're out - they can't be bothered or they may have run out of them. But I find Parcel Force, DPD and Hermes usually leave cards or follow 'safe place' instructions.

We don't mind taking parcels in for our neighbours - except one - and they usually collect promptly and it gives us a chance to chat and catch up. But I refused to take any more parcels for one neighbour after he practically accused me of withholding/stealing a parcel he'd been expecting. It turned out it had been delivered to a street with a similar name in another area! He didn't apologise.

I once asked a delivery man if I should get a locked parcel box where deliveries could be left safely, he said 'NO! Most of us hate them, they're never big enough, and unless it's built into a wall they're not secure'.

I often take in neighbours parcels. But they never call round to collect them, so inevitably we end up taking them round.
I know for a fact they are in so why don’t they come and collect.
I will have to ask next time.

Ahh am glad its not just me that is peed off with acting as a parcel office. My neighbours are both deaf. The children can hear. The wife is an online shopping fan and parcels come nearly every single day. Big and small. What makes me so mad is she is often in but doesn't answer the door. We had a large flat pack dog kennel delivered a while ago and I knew they had gone out. Turned out they had weekend away so I was stuck with a huge parcel for 4 days! Often I take her parcel in and find she is sunbathing in the garden. I have tried to refuse to take parcels but the Hermes/RoyalMail guys are so nice and I feel bad that they would have to come back because I wont accept the parcel. Mental I know. They always put a card through her door and Amazon text her when/where is has been delivered but it is hit and miss when she calls for it. I have tried to ask her whether she has a bell system that triggers a flashing light but she just smiles at me. Thing is I cant just ignore the door so have to stop whatever I am doing, often when prepping a meal only to find it is not for me but for next door I think I will make a stand and refuse. Hopefully the delivery guys will get the message and not bother knocking. Fingers crossed.

Just wait for them to collect it and live normally while you do. No rushed showers etc. I take in loads of parcels as I'm usually the one who is in. Sometimes I drop them off, it depends, but people aren't fussed about it, they are always very grateful that I saved them the long hunt for the parcel office. Most couples are both working so they have to manage somehow.

I take parcels in. But on 1 occasions there was a new computer ordered which in those days came in several big boxes which were to big to keep except in our (small) sitting room with no warning. And another time the people down the road put a notice in their porch telling delivery person to take parcel to us!!. Blooming cheek I thought.

We always take in parcels for neighbours. I did get annoyed at one point though, because one neighbour would not open the door to the delivery man even though he's there all day. He does it all the time.

When his wife came to collect after returning home from work(!!!) I mentioned I knocked the door but no answer 'Oh, he was probably working and on the phone' she said.

'So was I. I had to stop work to answer the door'' I said. He's answered the door ever since!!

farmnanjulie everyone is taking the mickey! Stand un front of the mirror and practice ....No!

I wouldn’t accept a neighbours key unless we are really good friends Sheilasue because if they lose, misplace or something is stolen you will get the blame if I were you I would give them the key back immediately.

I take parcels regularly a couple of my neighbours who I know and get on with. As annep says notes aren’t always left as the last time I accepted a parcel for a neighbour they didn’t leave him a note but he called round anyway because he was expecting the parcel and had asked me previously if I wouldn’t mind signing for it. Good manners cost nothing so maybe you could ask your neighbours to let you know next time they are expecting a parcel they want you to sign for. Don’t feel obligated to take the parcel though, I had some nightmare neighbours a few years ago and when asked to sign for their parcel I flatly refused.

We live in a block of flats everyone is at work, we take in the parcels but if we are out no one can be there to take in ours.
Next door neighbour gave us a key so h puts it in their hallway. No thank you though.

I has this happen ,we live on a farm in a quiet lane ,our nearest neighbours are over a mile away and are not farmers but either do not answer the door or not in, well they order huge amounts from Amazon and Zara,and couriers do not want to come back so they leave a card in their doors saying it's at ours!
The parcels used to sit for days and they never came round for them! Until I took them round,I do not drive ,So it's over a mile ,on a busy country lane with no pavements just ditches and dangerous! And everyone in their house has a car and drives.!!
It got so many I had enough,I like to be neighbourly but these were taking the Mickey!
So i refuse all their parcels,the couriers are really angry with me as the have to go back or they leave them the wrong side of the gate and they go missing,
Unfortunately our neighbours always want something,we run a farm and they or usually after the following...
Free hay and straw
Use our hedgecutter for free
Can you cut our grass with your tractor
Can I shoot on your land
Can I metal detect on your land
Can I fly birds of prey on your land
Can I use your land for hunting/ motorbikes/ offroading our land rover
Can I have some red deisel
Can I borrow,strimmer,tools, grass cutter,
Can I store my caravan at your place
Can I drive your big tractor
And so it goes on! Does anyone else with a rural property have this!

While I'm on a rant! We have a old farmhouse cottage with a a pretty garden and old laundry in the garden,we have lots of family and friends turn up on nice sunny Sunday's sit on the garden furniture and say we haven't eaten,and how about a tray of tea!
So I'm obliged to provide lunch in the garden! It's getting so bad ,my husband wants to print a menu!
Funnily enough it stops in Autum and winter.

Often take in parcels for the neighbours as they work full time once had a mattress dropped off that blocked off the hallway know they would do the same for me so it's not a problem and they are always so appreciative

Pixie1 why delay your shower on the off-chance they will call to collect, I'm sure they'll come back if you don't answer the door?!
We're always happy to take in parcels for neighbours we know, its hardly a chore. I do always ask couriers to be sure to leave a card for them though, as they sometimes don't bother. Neighbours take deliveries for us too.
I don't take parcels for people I don't know though, there are quite a few flats locally and I couldn't be sure I was handing it over to the right person if the card was left in a communal hallway.

I had to laugh when I read you'd taken in a parcel for the second time in six months. Is that all lol ? Count yourself lucky! My neighbours have parcels delivered several times a day and when they are out, the delivery drivers bring them to us. Some weeks we take in two or three parcels a day!!! Mostly they come round and fetch them but sometimes we take them round. It doesn't bother me at all, I just wonder what on earth they keep buying ?

It wouldn’t occur to me to wait for a neighbour to collect a parcel I’d taken in - I’d take it to them as soon as I saw they were in. I don’t really see the problem.
Except if it was a roll of carpet Chewbacca!

You say they are fairly new neighbours, so have you asked them whether they want you to take in parcels for them?

If not, go across with the current parcel and ask them.

IMO you need to be a little careful here, as hanging onto a parcel addressed to someone else might just be misunderstood. You don't want to be accused of theft, after all.

Marycat2 My very thoughts. Who in this day and age, with tracking, hasn't the means of receiving a text or email when a parcel will be delivered .Suppliers will or should ask for a 'where should we leave your parcel if you are not in.'It is up to us not our neighbours to shoulder the responsibility.







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