The Parcel

It's simple. Tape a message to their letter-box, or to the knocker, where they are sure to see it coming or going, to the effect that "Unless you call for the parcel by *, I will leave it on your threshold that same evening."

About delivery drivers: poor things, they are operating under the gig system and have to deliver a specific number of parcels daily in order to earn a half decent wage. No wonder they are always in a tearing hurry and mostly look so gloomy.

Id rather they leave it in my porch than bother others..i have had a couple left with my nxt dr neighbours,who are a busy young working family, newish to neighbourhood,and ive done same for them,but rather would not have the bother.

On the other foot- i was expecting a delivery,and when it never showed up i emailed the company,who said it had been delivered by royal mail. I contacted them,who said it had been 'signed for by you or one of your neighbours' -well it sure wasnt by me,and i had not had a card left either by royal mail- usually there is if you miss delivery- there was no mention from royal mail of which neighbour had 'signed for it'-and i asked again when i rang,but they did not know who signed?( surely they knew what number they left it at?) i asked a few neighbours round about,no one had accepted it. I never did receive nor find it,and never got a refund,nor was i able to claim it from royal mail as it was down as 'signed for' - i think company was a scam,and it was never even sent so i was out of pocket,and as it was a gift for someone i had to buy again.(from somewhere else)

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

Id just call the couriers to take it away.then refuse next time.

Perhaps they are ill disabled dead ...
Return to sender

LoveLaughLive, please see my post @ 19.29.

If it was large, bulky and take up space in my hall I wouldn’t have taken it in, just in case this scenario arose.
However, we know out neighbours well and they take parcels for us and vice versa. One family are a bit slow at picking up their parcels or dropping ours off, but they have four young children, so their lives must be chaotic to say the least. That’s fine though. We go over to pick up/drop off. Sometimes we have the parcel for more than a week or two if they’re away, but again, I only accept it if it’s a manageable size. I just put it to one side until they get back.
I’d much rather have that relaxed attitude and not have parcels on my doorstep displaying like a neon light that we’re away!
But yes, for any large parcels in future say no due to storage. It’s up to you on smaller parcels. I take those in whatever. Life’s too short to get worked up about little things like that.
As for for your EE neighbours, stick a note through saying that you’re sending it back on X date and do exactly that.
And take a chill pill because life just isn’t worth getting so het up about.

Possibly the sender input a wrong address on the parcel and the neighbour has no idea what it can be. My DD has taken in a parcel and put out an “appeal” on ShoutOut in order to find correct recipient. It worked!

Have you thought of ringing their work place. It does sound like they are away.

Unless you bang on their window really loudly.

Thank goodness Chewbacca

Chewbacca
ignore previous, so glad that it was sorted amicably and that you have met a pleasant neighbour after all that!

MadMaggie mail is no longer redirected unless you add more stamps to cover the cost - hopefully if you just add the new address the cards will be held at the Post Office until the addressees turn up and pay a vast amount!
Chewbacca I'd contact the delivery company, explain what has happened and say you're no longer to look after the parcel for them as you don't want to be involved in a possible scam. Get them to collect it and then put a final note in your neighbour's door saying that you no longer have their property and for them to contact the delivery company.

Eureka! The young woman neighbour called this evening to collect it. I'm really glad now that I didn't throw a strop because she explained that she's attending evening college 3 nights a week, straight after full time work, and so doesn't get in until nearly 10 o'clock at night and she felt it was too late to call to collect. Her OH could have collected it instead I suppose but, I'm really very pleased that it was the young woman who called because she stayed and chatted for a little while.

Thanks all!

I keep popping back to see if they've got their parcel yet.
Why would folk order stuff and then not bother picking it up?
Very odd......more money than sense, maybe!

Madmaggie you can just write "not known at this address" and put back in post box. That way you have discharged your legal duty of care and it becomes the post office's responsibility.

The latest scam is to claim thst a parcel has not been delivered get a refund ftom company/person then pick up parcel so just make sure you are not part of that. I would give them 3 days or yoh will return yo sender with vosts down to them

Madmaggie I'm sure it is still possible to request the Post Office to re-direct your mail when you move and it is a fairly simple process.

I think I would save up all their Christmas mail, put it in a large envelope and post it to them without a stamp.
Enough is enough!

Newathiss
The plants or the neighbours? My plants always thrive, they are in flower now but rather small as they should have been planted ages ago. They were a present for her daughter .

If you know roughly when they return from work then nip over and leave the parcel on their doorstep about 10 mins before they are due to arrive.

In a similar vein, we're still getting mail for the previous owners of our house - we moved in 5 years ago!! We have their new address and have tried everything from hand delivering to re-addressing, returning to sender (when it's obviously from commercial addresses), we even got one of our neighbours who were still great pals to phone them up and ask them to call and collect their mail marked 'private & confidential)! They did, they promised to sort it out. I've even had the adult daughter knock last year and accuse me of deliberately witholding mail, at this point I waited til she paused for breathe & let her have it - cheeky mare! Now it's started again with Christmas cards. It's an offence to destroy them, there's no return addresses so I'm still redirecting that's why I have printed up a load of sticky labels on my desktop pc with our return address & let our contacts know when we moved so no one is lumbered with my post!

It doesn't have Laithwaites or Naked or something similar stamped on the box, does it?

We'll all be round to yours later Chewbacca

They are away in the Caribbean or somewhere like that. Bet they turn up in January.