To want my parcel - woman denying accepting it but I have a photo..

We have parcels delivered every single day. Some get put in the correct places, others don't. All the residents of the house <where this parcel was correctly addressed to> need say is oh sorry we were mistaken should a csi squad land on their doorstep.

Wnat a massive waste of everyone's time

Don't doubt yourself OP! The police must (surely, hopefully) believe they stole it or they wouldn't be planning to prosecute someone.
Like you, I would take a thief over a liar, she deserves to be prosecuted for lying.
Unless the kids took it and opened it secretly then destroyed the evidence? if that happened then maybe the police coming round will have scared the Bejesus out of them and will deflect them from a life of crime so there's that.

Absolutely, but people seem happy to never do anything about it and the they complain everything is so expensive!

Surely 'being on the case' would involve ringing the person and asking if they had the item? I don't think it would be a complex investigation involving forensics, csi and teams of detectives.

The op has said she is now stressed with it all. Life it too short, write off the lost 20 quid item and ensure delivery details are correct going forward would be my advice.

That's actually a brilliant tactic ... mental note to pretend to have Alzheimer's if beggars or Jehovah's Witnesses turn up on my doorstep!

Sorry to hear about your mum though 💗

What I’d do is just read the thread. Then I might find out there’s actually been several updates already.

Maybe she’s got form for it or shoplifting in general and the police have had enough of her.

Well you will have wasted police time if you drop it now! I think I’d be quite annoyed if I was on this case and had taken the time to follow it up for you and you then backed out!

i am finding it very reassuring that the police are actually doing something for a change!

No, it's not punishment enough, she's a lying thieving cow. Nobody acts like this as a one off, this is her m.o. Let them pursue it to the bitter end, come what may, and do not feel any pity for her. Maybe then - just maybe - she will think twice the next time. A warning is nothing at all to thieving cretins like this.

Placemarking, to find out the outcome

I think it's not your role to decide based on what you think is or isn't a waste of police time. None of us have the information needed to determine whether it's a waste of their time. If they think it's worth their time it's hard to imagine it's just this one isolated incident, but their time management is on them.
Keep the updates coming :)

I once found the remnants of three mail order parcels in my garden.

Handed them in at the local police station where the desk sergeant proceeded to take the piss out of me: “Was it not your size love?”

A fortnight later, a policewoman came to my door with Polaroids of the parcels. Could I identify them as those I’d found?

Someone had robbed a post office van and my insignificant find was going to be used as evidence in court.

I’m guessing that those who reckon that the OP’s case is part of something bigger are right.

A stolen parcel and a possible court case. I'm definitely invested 😆

I’m in the states, so not sure if this applies. But had an expensive item delivered to me ($300) and after the courier photographed that it was delivered, it was stolen from outside my door. We checked the cameras and there was a guy on camera come into the building and take it. The product company had some kind of insurance because they had a process of replacing the item — if you have a police report. They sent me a new one after they fully fulfilled their duty of delivering the item to my home. I’d talk to the seller.

I suspect it might be that your complaint is part of a bigger crime, the woman might be known to the police and added your crime to the other ones to be able to bring a persecution. This happened to me once.

My Mum was scammed on her door step by a man asking for money to pay his train fare to get the train to Leeds to collect the body of his wife who had died there! She fell for it but on turning round to find her purse she shut the door then forgot about him! She did have Alzheimer’s and we’d installed a door camera to keep an eye on her so had a recording.

As I was driving to Mums that evening to cook her tea I spotted a couple of police walking near by and stopped to chat to them and showed them the video. They knew the man as he was local and often seen begging for money or shop lifting to fund his drug addiction. I gave them a copy of the video and a few weeks later was asked to go to court as a witness, along with some other people who had reported him. Mine was good evidence due to the video so it was shown in the court room but I was not actually called as a witness as the magistrates referred the case to the Crown Court based on other evidence. When he later appeared in court, the evidence I provided, together with other cases, were kind of lumped together to get him a longer sentence. The police were very grateful for the recording as he could not deny the offence like e did some other ones.

It isn't just for £20 is it? It is a principle of British law and it is happening so much now that the police have to take it seriously. If they do not, it could be the courier who takes things, and that is just awful, and must be stopped too.

Something similar happened to me and it was only a few pounds, and because of that I did not report it, yet I knew where the parcel went and should have done. The buyer on ebay had two addresses registered and I put her old address on the package. It was delivered to her old address just a few streets away, yet she refused to collect it, even though I had proof of delivery.

She maintained that it was up to me to get the item to her and it wasn't her place to collect it. I spent money writing to the resident of her old address and included a stamped parcel bag inside, but nothing turned up. I never received the item back.

If only you'd spent the same amount of time reading OP's posts as writing this boring spiel... or at least noticed the date of the first one and realised there just may be a slight chance that in the 2 months that had past things may have moved on a bit 😂

Someone on a local social media has just put out a plea for anyone receiving his parcel because it had the wrong address on it.

It was so similar I have just sent them a short message about this on mumsnet so perhaps you might have given hope to more people.

Well done that lady!!

This might be my favourite MN thread ever…..

The police are interested because it is a straightforward case and an easy conviction. It looks good on the crime statistics!

Right, I've only read yours posts op, but im here to say: good on you and good on the police.

Dishonest people think they can just nick parcels because what are you going to about it? Well, you've shown them what you'll do. And rightly so. Theft is theft. Maybe cases like this will stop small time fraud like this being so widespread and almost written off as something people should just accept.

Not-so-HappyLols by the looks of it, let me tell you what often happens on MN… Some threads are many pages long. People read the first post and go through several replies until they come across one they really agree with. They want to bookmark it in a way, perhaps they feel thrilled that someone else thinks exactly like they do!! They feel pasionate about what’s happening to the OP. So without giving it much thought they quote that reply without realising that the thread had since moved on…
Other posters then come across the out of date reply and zoom past it in 2 seconds, potentially rolling their eye at the idiot who posted without reading the entire thread.
If you were so annoyed about wasting a few seconds scrolling though my irelevant post, then why did you waste even more time to message some about…sanity and RTFT - I don’t even know what that means!!!

I guess I made a ‘mistake’ and got carried away without reading every message in the thread, but you don’t have to become so acidic! If you’re very stressed by all these posts perhaps you need to take a break from MN

No matter HOW dull you think your commuter town, I doubt they’re spending person hours to build a possible court case over just £20? I have no idea what your parcel could possibly have gotten itself mixed up in, I admit [perhaps the police ‘attended’, and the lying lady of the (your) house was checking her massive marijuana grow while wearing your knockoff Seasalt sandals… until she got the blisters?], but I hope they don’t hold court over £20, and not even a mug, from SportDirect (the cut off should be £35 with or without mug or free shipping offers).