Friend posting things to my parents house

“I only have room in my luggage for the agreed 3 parcels, please make arrangements to courier the remainder’,

WTF?!?! I thought she was a cheeky fucker before I got to the bit that you're flying not driving!! Tell her you won't have room for all of it

Just be honest and say it's starting to piss your parents off so they've said no mas.
Phrase it lightheartedly and that it's out of your control. She won't continue doing it once that's been said surely? And can't be pissed off with you as it's not your house!

My suggestion is that you re-address them to her home address when you are at your parents' house, and have them weighed at the post office. Tell her how much she needs to pay you so that you can post them to her. Tell her there isn't enough capacity in your luggage within the airline's limit for you to have them with you on the flight, so youll either haveto returnthem all or post them directly to her (once she's paid of course). You also need to tell her before you go, ie now, that your Dad has gone mad about how many items there are and she must stop. Do not worry about the possibility of losing this friendship over responding assertively, it doesn't sound like they are worth keeping! Cf.

If the OP want’s to be really picky they need to establish the value of the goods (verses their personal allowance) and TBH consider whether customs would consider it legit to use that allowance in the manner being suggested by the friend.

This 🤣

“Hey Sarah, I agreed for you to send something” to my parents and I would bring it through, I assumed this meant one parcel not SIX. My parents have had enough and I won’t have much space when we fly back, so sadly any further parcels will have to be refused. Of the six parcels received, I’ll have to see how many things I can fit in my case, unless you want to pay for excess baggage? I’ll also have to open the parcels to fit them in and check there aren’t any restricted items. I’m really disappointed that you have taken this so far above what I agreed.”

Because she's a piss taker you might as well list everything she sent to keep us entertained, once opened. I'm curious what was so important that turned her into an almighty CF

She could drop them off at a charity shop on the way to the airport if she so chose.

Feel free to leave them if you have no room to take them back. What a bloody cheek.

Well obviously you should check beforehand if there are restricted items rather than telling the border staff you are carrying something for someone 🤣 but overall it is a massive piss take and I’d be sending some of the items back to sender!

You also need to find out what’s in the parcels before you take them through customs. She could be getting you to courier pretty much anything!

Definitely

So lie, and then when the luggage gets scanned/checked have to continue to lie if the woman has ordered items that are restricted? Sounds great 😄

On second thoughts OP I would send them ALL back as she really has taken this CF behaviour to another level!

I would be livid!

Send the other THREE back and any others that arrive!

CF of the highest order OP!

No words!

I'm a bit surprised so many replies are suggesting long messages of explanation and compromise from OP to friend. The friend has taken advantage. I can assure everyone here this is not cultural. The only message should be:
Hey, about the parcels. You originally said, "something." That turned into multiple deliveries. You need to sort something out now for everything as I'm not prepared to deal with it now and neither are my parents.

@HattenO please don't take any further responsibility. You no longer have an obligation because she took the piss. She knows it.

nope. Tell her that she can arrange shipping from your parents for the things that she had sent there. If there are 3 small, light things, that you can carry, you might agree to bring them.

Tell your parents to RTS / Not known at this address for anything else that comes.

Yes, you can't answer the security questions at the airport if you don't know. I've probably watched too many Border Force programmes but don't carry stuff for others!

It’s like the 12 days of Christmas.
Good luck with getting 8 maids a milking through customs but perhaps you can use the 5 gold rings to pay for the extra luggage. 😂

“I was only carrying something for a friend”….is a standard feature of pretty much every story about somebody banged up in the nick having been caught with something they shouldn’t have been carrying trying to leave places like Bangkok or Singapore….

Charge her for extra luggage. Or post them to her in France.

You need to be firm and tell her you weren’t expecting so many parcels, you might not have space for all of them and that your parents are getting annoyed

Well if you can't fit them all in, what does she expect you to do?

Return them?

Your parents hold them imdefinitely?

Tell her you need her to check you in extra luggage? That’s really cheeky if you’re flying!

Can you take all but three of them to the post office and have them posted to her address in France? Demand she pays you in advance for the postage charges and tell her your plane luggage allowance is needed for all the things you will be bringing back for yourselves, and you had only agreed to bring three things back for her.

When people came to visit me when I lived abroad they sometimes had to post their purchases to their home countries.

Of course she might end up having to pay customs charges on her goods, but she should have thought of that before adding all the extra parcels without checking if it was OK.

If she doesn't agree to give you the money for postage tell her she has a month to collect them in person from your parent's house, otherwise they'll go to the charity shop.