Neighbours keeping hold of parcels

The normal rule is you are expected to collect it. They won’t be aware you don’t know what number house. I’m sure they will drop eventually

IF you know where it is, YOU should go for it, that's just common curtouesy.

However if you do NOT know where it's been delivered, (we dont always get notice but out neighbours are lovely and will let us know) or if its been delivered to the wrong address then it's basically impossible to find..
Our local fb page is FULL of people looking for parcels that have 'been delivered to customer' but they haven't. Usually a pair of feet and a doorstep to go off!!

They could be housebound. We are and if we had a random parcel left we’d have to wait to have a visitor who could take it. Really this is a RM issue of wrong delivery - and very frustrating for poor OP!

I think you mean telepathy!
Telekinesis is moving objects by though!

100% agree with OP and so many pp seem to be missing the point here. The parcel was not kindly taken in by a neighbour- it was incorrectly delivered. There is no card. The courier will not have a record(other than the socks photo) of where it was delivered as they believe it to be delivered to the correct location.

I received someone’s delivery recently- I took it round to them (about 3 streets away) the same day.

No, you go and collect a parcel if a neighbour has taken it in. If I've taken in a parcel then it's because the neighbour is not home, how on earth would I know when they're home? I'm not nipping over multiple times in the hope they're in, come get your parcel.

Why is everyone assuming it's royal mail? It could be any one of the courier companies

And do you do this for your neighbours, given that your wfh?

People expect the person to collect. Yabu. Your problem is with the company who didn't give the tracking information not your kind neighbour who took it in.

Have to say when a parcel is wrongly delivered I don’t run around anywhere. Next time I go out I just pop a note through the letterbox - “We have your parcel” and our address.
Works fine.

What you want is both a parcel delivered knowing you will not be there to recieve it, for someone else to mind it for you, then that person to watch for you coming home so they can drop what they are doing to hand deliver it to you.
You are v unreasonable
If i were your neighbour, I'd take in your parcel and go on holiday for a fortnight

So what? @Bride2Be25 just has to do a bit of legwork to find it.
Terribly entitled to think that a neighbour will spend their evening popping along the street to knock on the door of intended recipient, or staring out the window to see when they get home
It's a favour to take in a parcel. People should be grateful, not demanding personal deliveries from the person doing the favours

Ring your RM delivery office and explain. They can see on their system where the parcel was scanned for delivery so you will know where it is

Because if Royal Mail have delivered it to the wrong address, they think they’ve delivered it to the correct address so there’s no need to record where they dropped it off.

I had this happen to me recently. The Royal Mail website said the parcel had been delivered, and there was a photo of it sitting on the ground next to a dustbin. Except it wasn’t my dustbin. I went to look at my neighbours’ dustbins and eventually found it in the garden of the house next door. Several letters had been delivered to him in previous weeks - the house numbering in this street is a bit unusual and I think a new postman was assuming that the house next door was my number (it doesn’t have the house number prominently displayed). If my neighbour had found the parcel he would have brought it round to me, because he always brings misdelivered post to me.

If a postman or courier tries to hand me a neighbour’s parcel because they’re not in, then I know they’ll have a card and will come to collect it. Often I’ll take to them as soon as I can see they’re back home, just so it doesn’t clutter up my hall. But if I’m handed a parcel for a neighbour without being asked if I will accept it on their behalf, then I know it’s a mistake and I point out the mistake.

If I had a neighbour’s parcel and they hadn’t collected it after a week, I would definitely have taken to them, probably the same day.

It's all well and good knocking doors looking for a parcel. But recently, the photo of the parcel delivered to a neighbour looked like nowhere near I live. Turned out the parcel had been delivered to North Yorkshire I live in South west England.

Eventually got the parcel

@Tablesalt111 Ask your courier/delivery person.

Well, like everyone on this thread has already said, take it up with whoever did not give you the details of where the parcel is, ie the delivery company. They will let you know, then you go and fetch it yourself.

I don’t think telekinesis is necessary really.

How if you don't know where it is. Telekinsis?🤣

My issue with this is how do I know whether they will be in , I could end up calling on them several times before I catch them

Oh that’s bad. They could have just walked off with the parcel and neither you nor the neighbour would have known 😡.

@MeAgainAndAgain

We assume the feet belonged to the postman/woman as they were wearing shorts and the scrubby grass was at the start of the neighbours drive, so they must have taken it prior to walking up the drive and putting it in the box!

Oh that’s weird. So whose feet were they? Was it just a random photo that wasn’t taken at their house then?

This happened to us last week. We were expecting a parcel to be delivered on Thursday and happened to check the tracking on Wednesday afternoon to see if there was a time for delivery.....only to discover it had been apparently been delivered on Tuesday morning! Photo of feet (no parcel) and a bit of scrubby grass (no front door!)

There were GPS coordinates that gave us an
idea of where it was delivered to and so we went off and called on our neighbours. They have a box outside for deliveries where our parcel has been put! They don't check the box unless they're expecting something, so they didn't know it was there.

Whilst I agree that neighbours who agree to take in a parcel that isn't theirs are to be thanked, if the delivery driver has just left a parcel at the wrong address, there's no note through your door as they think they've delivered to you!

Hope you find your parcel OP!

Obviously Mumsnetters who do t answer the door unless you've written to them to say you're popping over with their parcel, with at least 14 days notice!

I used to take parcels wrongly delivered to me to the correct address, but I got sick of knocking doors and hearing the people home but they couldn’t be bothered to answer the door (I assume the reason the delivery driver couldn’t give it to the right person in the first place!), that now I always wait for them to come and get it themselves.