Friend posting things to my parents house

She's put you in a very difficult situation. What are you going to say when they ask you at the airport if anyone has asked you to carry a package for them?

I live in France and husband works 3 months a year in UK. We get people trying this shit on all the time. Supermarket lists to save themselves a few euros buying it here, air fryer FFS Aldi sell them here. I just laugh and say it will cost my husband more than a few euros in time and diesel so no. People expecting husband to stay in to accept their UK delivery, seriously I just laugh at them, tbh I don't want cf's as friends. Brought back something for a friend that had import duty to pay, we left it with customs, friend had to pay and arrange collection. They do it because cheaper to buy in UK and use you to do all the work.
Pp said bring the 3 agreed, box up rest and arrange DHL once friend has paid for it. You have made a rod for your own back. I suspect this friend wouldn't do the same favour for you. Nothing kills a friendship quicker than being used. You owe your dad a huge apology and tell friend to send him a good bottle of wine to say thank you.

Definitely.

She's absolutely taking the P.
As others have said tell her "no more your parents are getting annoyed, any more will be returned to sender"

Be very careful she isn't using your parents address for any sort of credit. Often suppliers will only deliver things to the credit cards register address.

Cheeky cow!
I'd message saying there's no way all of her parcels will fit in your luggage and you are not paying extra for it. This is not what you agreed and parents are really pissed off now.
They have asked that she arranges for a courier to collect the parcels and to let you know the details of collection so you can pass on the info to them.

Forget about how many things or excess luggage - this is not important compared to being manipulated in to taking unknown items on a plane through customs. You have your liberty to weigh against completing a favour for person who is telling you they aren’t being straight with you already and are prepared to use you. Talk your parents and partner about where to go from here. At the very least declare the all the goods upfront in goods to declare at customs making it clear that they are of unknown origin and being taken as a favour for a friend.

I would do what someone upthread suggested & tell her to arrange a courier to pick them up from your parents house and deliver them to her.

You can say you only agreed to one and won’t have room in your luggage for 6.

I would also say that your Dad is pissed off and not to get anything else delivered there (ever).

Omg this is so cheeky of her! You have given her an inch and she’s taken a mile. She’s using your parents’ house like a post office locker. Tell them to feel at liberty to decline all other parcels! And definitely tell her that one parcel was agreed, not 6+ and the goodwill to do this any more has been lost.

The bare faced cheeky

Three parcels is a lot - 6 is taking the piss,especially when you're flying to have to make space for them

Do you even know what's in them? Be mindful of carrying parcels for someone else, you never know how above board it all is

CF at its finest

Really rude and disrespectful.
Shes a CF user.
I would not be making space for her stuff in my luggage.

I would tell her your parents are very pissed off about it and you are not impressed at her presumption.

Tell her to arrange for the them to be collected by DFL or the like.

Tell your father to refuse anything else.

Are you insane? Do NOT let your parents import goods they’ve not seen.

Does your friend know you're flying not driving?

I would contact her right now and say that you can't bring the things back as they won't all fit in your case.

I’d say sorry that she cannot send any more parcels and it’s likely you won’t have space for all the unagreed ones. Tell her she will need to call and collect them on her next visit to the uk!

I think you need to message her to say that your parents agreed to take in one parcel, and are not happy that she’s sent so many. I’d also deliberately not be able to fit all of them in my luggage to bring back, and leave her to figure out what to do with the rest. She’s massively taking the piss.

This is next level cheeky, especially as you're flying. Send her message along the lines of "Hi friend, my parents have all your parcels, and it's a lot more than we were expecting. Please don't order anything else as I'll already be struggling to carry all your stuff and my parents don't have space to store them".

Why are you so worried about being impolite when she clearly isn't?

"Hi x, my dad has just had a 6th item delivered. He's pretty annoyed about being a postal service for someone He's never met and can't say i blame him! I agreed to do you a favour by bringing back 3 parcels, and to be honest that's already quite a big ask as its going to take up a lot of my luggage. I definitely can't bring more than that so please can you organise returns for the most recent items and don't order any more."

If she kicks off then don't bring any of her stuff at all. You're doing her a favour its in her interests to keep you sweet.

Out of interest how big are the parcels?

you must open them and check…you need to know if duty needs to be paid as you’ll be liable for that and have to them claim from her

Hadn't thought of that - good point

This is excellent post.

As well as telling your CF friend to stop with the deliveries - you should also tell her she will need to pay for excess baggage charge, unless the parcels are very small. Get her to transfer the money before your travel, or you'll never get it back

And make it clear - she should never do this again as she has pushed her luck beyond the pint of breaking.

This

you should never agree to bring unopened parcels though customs in any country.
you must open them and check…you need to know if duty needs to be paid as you’ll be liable for that and have to them claim from her

if she refuses to allow you to do this. Say you will send them all back to the sender, and she’ll have to claim refund

why in gods name did you agree? Let alone get your parents involved.

and yep, if I was your parents, I’d be pretty pissed of too…one delivery , maybe, not multiple. She’s a piss taker.

If you'd been driving, and your folks had a reasonable sized house this wouldn't have bothered me at all.

However it sounds like neither of those things apply, so how does she expect you to get all these things back on the plane?! Is she going to pay excess luggage?

OMG ! You are flying - that is next level Cheeky fuckery. See how big they are when you get there but that is proper rude of her.

I would ask her how she expects you to carry them. Make it her problem.
I would also ‘accidentally’ lose one parcel so she didn’t ask me to do shit like that again but I am a class a bitch

‘Hi Sarah, please don’t send anything else to my parents, my dad has gotten a bit annoyed with the amount of parcels and I’m not sure how I’ll fit it all in to our luggage as we’re flying home not driving. I might not be able to bring everything back sorry. I’ll fit in what I can’

Also-you can pay the post as I will be posting them to you. I don’t have the space or weight allowance to bring it all back for you.