The least you could do is make an effort to come and collect it asap?
I am currently a SAHM and live in a small quiet cul de sac, where apart from my other elderly neighbour, I am the only one who is normally at home most days with the DC.
Normally if anyone gets a delivery and no one is at home, the driver (mainly the same woman who usually delivers my orders) will come and knock at my house.
Now I don't have an issues with taking in parcels for people as I understand people work, so I take them in with the though process of
- Its the neighbourly thing to do
- It saves the driver, who I happen to spend time chatting with, and Is a lovely woman, from having to re-deliver on another day
- it saves neighbours the hassle of re-arranging delivery.
Each time I've took a parcel in depending on which neighbour it is, they usually get home, see card and call straight over, or I've caught them as they've pulled up in the street, However NDN on the other side of me makes zero effort to call to collect their stuff. I have on occasion either popped ND and dropped it off, or caught them in the street but once when DS was poorly & I took a package in, I made no effort to drop it off for them and it took them 2 days before they called for it without so much as a thanks! (they had been home during this time an no doubt would of see the card the driver pushed through the door stating it was at mine).
Fast forward to today and DH was working from home when another package arrived for NDN, he signed for it, took it in and watched the lady post the card through the door. NDN is due in soon and I know they wont collect it until they can be arsed, which means I have a huge bloody box stuck in my hall until they do.
AIBU to now just start refusing to take anything in for them or to tell them to move their arse in terms of collecting their stuff because if I have to answer "mummy what's in the box?" one more time I'll bloody scream!