Neighbours keeping hold of parcels

If I wanted a job as a delivery driver/postman I would go and get a job as a delivery driver/postman.

OP, they very kindly took in your parcel. They are now waiting for you to collect it. The fact that you don’t know where it is has got absolutely nothing to do with them.

Where is your community spirit? Instead of whining on the internet about your kind neighbours why don’t you call whoever delivered your parcel incorrectly (by not telling you where it is) and go and fetch it? And then say ‘thank you for taking in my parcel’ 😊.

But the OP clearly stated it was nothing but socks, so why did you make up a scenario that didn't happen

I think you're overly invested to the point you're making up your own narrative, which is just weird.

Either a) they'll assume you got a note saying where it was and they're cursing you for not coming to pick it up.

or b) they get so many parcels they haven't even noticed it wasn't for them. We get LOADS of business parcels coming to us, which I only sort through once a week, so I wouldn't notice for quite a few days if we had something we shouldn't have.

@Bluebirdover you seem weirdly overinvested in this but ok, maybe the OP has the only delivery photo ever taken that is literally nothing but socks.

I've found multiple neighbours and my parcels by recognising a doorstep or plant pot or whatever in the background, because I've used my initiative and gone and looked. But whatever. Not my parcel (not yours either) so not my problem. Bye 👋

I take parcels in for neighbours but they do need to come and collect it. I wouldn't go to them after all I already did them a favour.

Then they shouldn't accept the parcel.

This is a courier issue, they should have updated you either via sorry we missed you card or a message/ email saying parcel is at x. As a rule it is on the person the parcel belongs to to retrieve the parcel. I do think some people get neighbours parcel fatigue. I know we did with one set of neighbours we had a few years ago. They had 3 young adult daughters who seemed to live on ASOS/ pretty little thing/ shein ect. Some days we could get 4 parcels a day for them, they had selected leave parcels with a neighbour. The parents were at work and the daughters at school/ college/ work so no-one was ever in. The amount of deliveries we would get for them was obscene. They never collected them or said thank you for taking them in. At one point I had 16 parcels in my hallway for them. We started to refuse delivery for them and eventually they put a box out the front for parcels before they moved. I had a small baby and the amount of couriers ringing our doorbell was so disruptive to our family life and DDs naps.

@Bride2Be25 it seems that @Lucienandjean has decided that you've got a photo of someone's feet and in the background the house and door.........

Not that you've put that!

So apparently you can go round looking at doors and find it easily.

HTH!

@Lucienandjean no, she has a phot of the recipients feet, no house or door in the background....

You made that bit up.

She has a photo of the parcel, feet, and - in the background - the house and door.

Sorry why is it you think people should be unpaid delivery people for you? People have better things to do.

@Lucienandjean how would looking at neighbours front doors help?

If I had accepted a parcel for a neighbour and they hadn't collected it a week later then I would think that maybe they didn't know it was at mine. I'm not the sharpest tool in the box but I could work out that there is probably a reason that no one had come to collect it, especially if the actual owner didn't have form for leaving parcel's at mine and expecting them to be dropped off. It's not exactly rocket science.

It would take nothing for most people to nip round and drop it off. Mind you @Bride2Be25 this is Mumsnet so maybe they are worried that you won't answer the door 🤣

Your neighbour has already shown community spirit by agreeing to take in the parcel for you.

Now it's your turn to show community spirit by going and picking it up so the neighbour isn't tripping over it for the next week. They won't know you haven't got a card telling you where it is.

Time to go out looking at your neighbours' front doors!

unlikely to be the case for every poster that has said they'd never take it round because it's not their job,

But she doesn't know where it's been delivered!! She's only got photo of someone's socks!!

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Go and knock on your neighbours houses and make some neighbourhood spirit. Chat about the football or something.

Could be a huge chore. OP doesn't know which neighbour it is. They might have a disability or triplets.

Do people really prefer to have someone else's parcel cluttering up their hall rather than thinking "oh, maybe they didn't get a card..." and dropping it round? If it's not been delivered miles away it's hardly a huge chore.

The people it went to may be waiting for OP to come round. They dont know that the OP didnt get told where it was. But yeah theres loads of this on facebook, posted with a pic of someones slippers or dressing gown. Why dont royal mail record where it was dropped off!

Perhaps all those jumping on OP should maybe think that Royal Mail have delivered to the wrong address and OP has no idea where to collect it from! However the person who has it has the address on the front of the parcel to be able to find OP. I've seen many posts recently on sm of people looking for incorrectly delivered parcels due to Royal mail.

But they don't know that you don't know where the parcel is as the courier is supposed to leave a note.

So they think that it's your parcel and you should come and collect it. And on balance, it's really up to you to do the legwork.

The issue you have is really with the courier for not telling you where the parcel is as they are supposed to do, not the neighbour.

Your thread title is a bit misleading. Your neighbours have taken a parcel in & are waiting for you to collect it. Its not their fault you didn't get a card

If I take in a parcel, the intended recipient can pick it up. I’m not running around the neighbourhood with it.🙄