Seething!!!!

People dont park anymore they abandon

try

selfishparker.com and upload the image

I think that from now on you should block your drive and put up a sign that neighbours are allowed to park once they've agreed on some simple rules. Like making sure you always have full usage of your own drive.

I think you have been seriously taken advantage of here, the young man should have been required to move his car as soon as you asked him to.
I think it’s really lovely that you are happy to let your neighbours park on your drive, long may it continue, but people also have to respect that they are parking on your land. They should all be asking your permission and checking when/if you need to go out yourself.
To be honest, if I’d found a completely strange car parked on my land, with no forewarning, I would probably have phoned the Police and reported it as an abandoned vehicle, possibly stolen? That might have given the owner something to think about!
Equally, it’s quite tempting to suggest you start charging, if people want to use your land as a car park, causing wear and tear to your property, maybe they should start paying for the privilege!
You are certainly not being unreasonable to expect to be able to get on and off your property as and when you need to. The unreasonable bit is assuming it’s ok to invade someone else’s property and dump your car there!

I would be furious. We were angry (which l voiced on here recently) when a neighbours teenage kids and their friends kept parking in front of our house and that wasn't even on the drive! Stick to your guns, you're in the right.

Park your car in drive in such a way that no one but you can park there. If neighbours you like, want to park there, explain why and allow them in as a favour. Then when they’ve lost their easy free parking, they may have a word with the annoying neighbour on your behalf to keep their beneficial deal.

'Do not park here! You shall smart for this!' Flanders and Swann, 'The Gnu Song'

Oldwoman, the world needs more people like you; in fact I think the world needs more like most of us on GN. Love your neighbour's idea for the sign and Phoenix and Grannie Guitar's curses! Pins into wax models of his big end, definitely!

Catgrandma's sadly spot-on. Everything these days is 'I'm never wrong, someone else is' and it's madness. It's completely manipulative and has become so entrenched it boggles the mind. But if generous-hearted people change then we're just handing the victory to the rotten little cowards.

Benjiesmum, please take Alchamilla's advice. Don't have any more to do with this person. She's a particularly nasty form of tea-leaf. Hope things work out.

Like the selfishparker website, we have a FB page for our town called parking like a t* in ******.

He's an idiot. I'm sure all the neighbours he's spoken to will be on your side. After all they wouldn't like it if it happened to them especially on New Years Day as most people going out would be expected at friends or relatives at a certain time as I was myself.

How horrible to have such unreasonable neighbours - I live next door to a man who will accept parcels addressed to me but then refuse to hand them over when I call for them. Don’t know what use he makes of the samples of products such as household cleaners and disposable nappies which I am sent but I think it’s a real cheek to nick ‘em from me!

Surely that is theft?

In the future when ordering anything, I would tell them to make a note not to leave at your neighbours address if you are not in!

On the original post, it seems many people are quite selfish when parking and see it as their 'right' to park wherever they like!

It is theft. Did the deliverer leave a card saying parcel left with neighbour. If so, maybe a chat to the police for advice. (Keep the cards as proof).

We are often blocked in by thoughtless, lazy people. Once a delivery van driver just said he'd be a minute. I was desperate to get by so got into his cab and started the engine. I've never seen anyone move so fast or swear so much. But there is a culture of lawlessness where I live. Cars park on the pavement, on white zigzag lines at traffic lights. .There's no one to enforce the law. My rant over now.

So cheeky!