They went through my skip!

When we have skips round here we leave any metal outside the skip and it goes overnight. Anything except a fridge.

You can't imagine why people might want you to ask before you hang around on their property?

It’s rubbish you don’t want. Can’t imagine why you would want someone banging on your door asking if you mind if they clear out some space in your skip for you. We go skip diving quite often for wood for the log burner.

I'm happy for the postman to come. I'd much rather have the scrap metal collectors than any of the others who leave junk instead of taking it.

But they don't tend to help themselves to other people's property (and I'm not referring to just whats in the skip)

@IncognitoUsername

It's rude but it happens all the time. It's worse when they put stuff IN, taking up valuable space!!

Doesn't bother me.. I don't want it, can fit more in, it's getting recycled. So many positives

There is an implied invitation for delivery and they can only walk up the drive or path to deliver. What would you say if someone used your drive for another purpose? My skip wasn't in the drive or pathway. It was in the front garden.

@puzzledout

It's really not stealing.... but if you want to call the police and prosecute... then good luck!

Personally, I wouldn't suggest calling the police or prosecuting at all - waste of time - but in law it is stealing. People have been prosecuted for this sort of thing - see the link I posted above.

That is a different point though from your previous post which I was answering about trespass/implied licence.

Totally normal to rummage through skips here. People look for things that they can use or sell. Furniture, metal, anything really.

It's really not stealing.... but if you want to call the police and prosecute... then good luck!

@puzzledout @wombat15
people go on my property without invitation all the time
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Do you invite these people?

actually as matter of law, there is an implied licence for the postman and people with legitimate business to walk up the path to your front door. So strictly there is an invitation of sorts - it's an implied invitatinon by custom. Skip dippers are not in that class.

You can expressly state that you do not want any of these people (excluding the postman) by stating that there is no permission for them to be on your property.

It's why you sometimes see "No Junk Mail Permitted" or "No Canvassers Allowed" or similar signs on garden gates. The effect of that is to make clear there is no implied licence for these people and then if they step on to your property, they are now a trespasser. Obviously in reality, people ignore these signs and you'd have to be both quick, have evidence and identify them as well as being really bloody minded to do anything about it!

But to answer your post, these are not people who 'go onto your property without invitiation' in the same way as a skip dipper because anyone coming to the door to deliver post/leaflets/over a service/canvass has an implied licence unless it's revoked. People stealing from your skip or bin on your property is not in that class.

@wombat15 people go on my property without invitation all the time.

Postman
Leaflet distributers
Charity bag delvery
Charity bag collectors
Local political party's canvassing

Do you invite these people?

I think people are complaining because the skip was on their property. Do you not have a problem with people going on your property without invitation?

People are funny - imagine getting bent out of shape because someone was taking something you’d thrown away AND saving you skip space in the process. 😅

in the eyes of the law this is technically classed as theft so illegal, once in the skip the rightful owner then becomes the skip company so they are stealing from the skip company but like PP’s have said, it gives you more room & someone is going to make use of it so i couldn’t feel too put out and wouldn’t bother reporting personally

You would have to be stupid to put something you want to keep in a skip. Dipping is acceptable by most normal people.

Possibly less so if the skip is on private property. As I said on another post the thieving bastards tried to take the wrought iron gates and some plant pots that were near the skip but certainly not in it. After that I didn't want anyone coming in the garden to rummage as I was worried what else they might take a fancy to

It’s pretty common & means you can fit more in the skip. I don’t think it’s rude, you have literally thrown it away & are sending it off to landfill. They are then taking it out of the skip, freeing you up space & recycling it… so better off all round.

Anyone suggesting calling the police is ridiculous.

You would have to be stupid to put something you want to keep in a skip. Dipping is acceptable by most normal people.

Years ago I had an allotment and my boyfriend and I would check skips for windows - we managed to set up lots of great coldframes to start off fruit and veg early. Far better used for that than dumped into a pit.

I left our old washing machine by our front door which is about 8 metres from the pavement - was out for 45 mins and it got taken ... good job it wasn't the new one lol

She said "isn't it polite to ask first??!" Which to me indicates that she actually did mind that they didn't ask first.

No one is dumping, except for you maybe.

Well you’re not storing the items in the skip they are in there to be disposed of why do they need to ask ? It’s good if things get reused instead of going to landfill etc if you want to get rid of it why bother about it ?

Please don’t advise this, they are not going to be interested and if it’s metal, then it’s highly likely to be the scrap metal merchants (all of whom are travellers round our way). Fair play to them, they’re creating more room for the OP. Yes, technically it’s theft, but not really actionable.

A skip is rubbish, I would just be grateful. Our local metal collectors were very useful when we were sent 3 bent radiators in a row. The first one outisde they asked if they could take it, the second they knocked to ask if I wanted it brought in as it was raining so "yer new one will rust" and were delighted tglhat was scrap too. I made an appointment for them to check when the third one arrived - they knocked again to double check it was definitely bent rather than just dropped off. Lovely polite men. I would have been really pissed off ny having to make disposal effort otherwise.

Quoting myself here before everybody jumps on me claiming I didn't read the bit that says she didn't mind.
My point is by putting it in the skip says you probably will mind to others! It doesn't say I am a nice person who is happy to give my unwanted stuff away to people who may need it. If you don't mind stick a sign on saying, please knock if you want to take something so I am aware you are on my drive! You are expecting the to assume you're not the person you're advertising you are, that's not their fault! Redeem yourself and stick a sign on! Everyone will be happy! A simple solution that would take no time at all!