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

This could turn into the new 'cancel the cheque' thread, OP. A landmark moment on MN

@BitOutOfPractice she might have form for this, in which case you’re doing everyone a favour. People think this kind of crime is usually victimless but doorstep theft is not. I know you gave the wrong address but she would have known it wasn’t hers. Nobody I know would keep someone else’s parcel? This is her own fault.

For the love of sanity, RTFT or the OP's posts at the very least

Sensational thread OP.

Justice is slow, but extremely gratifying! I hope the thief is shitting herself and her ill gotten leggings.

This is what I would do! You can restate the obvious that you have photo evidence that then children received the parcel and give them 48 hours to jog their kids’ memory about where the parcel might be. Leave your phone number (or offer to go there again in person). If no change in 48 hours, call the police and be insistent! I know it’s only £20 but it is WRONG to take other people’s belongings so they need to be taught a lesson

love it when an OP updates - thank you!

Who the hell lets their kids answer the door? Are you joking?? We let our 6yo DC answer the door all the time. We're always within ear shot and as soon as it rings we'll move in that direction but she loves to do it and often gets there first.

What exactly do you think will happen when the kids answer the door? Unless you live somewhere seriously grim?

It is annoying when things go missing and people play dumb @BitOutOfPractice. It's not about the items or the value, it's selfish people thinking they can do what they want. The people in your former house probably thought there was nothing you could do about it. Maybe it'll make them think twice in future.

I wouldn't worry about wasting police time either. It's got to be straightforward for them. They have all the information that leads to where the parcel should be, and it's not there. If they didn't take it maybe the police investigation will clear them. That's what the police are there for.

I rather liked it!

So were are the pearls? Did you decide to post the bleeding obvious months too late instead 😂

The number of people who think this is not worthy of investigation is quite depressing. It’s theft. And who knows how many times she’s done it.

You’ll probably find that this person has form, which is why they’re taking it further. And I really don’t understand the ‘waste of police time’ angle. It’s theft. Investigating it is what the police are there for.

I live in a village with a very low crime rate and some bloke went into my back garden early one morning and pinched my son's gym kit off the line. I reported it only because I had ring doorbell footage of the cheeky bastard and I wanted to let the police know that if they had any reports of any important thefts, I had this footage in case it was the same man.

Like with you, they took a statement and everything and I forwarded them the footage of the bloke walking off with my son's stuff up his jacket. It also recorded me using the doorbell to ask him if there was anything else I could help him with. :D

maybe its just another report against her maybe she steals stuff all the time? i cant see them going to court over 20 quid

Skulls need to be metaphorically cracked, and early on in a criminal's career too. A musician at my local venue lost his 450k instrument to a little tea leaf who colluded with venue staff to steal it, then panicked when he realised he couldn't sell on due to watertight registration and it being too distinctive. He handed himself into police in a panic, and surprise surprise... had a long rap sheet of smaller petty offences leading up to the damp squib of a jackpot his dumb ass thought he'd landed 😆

A financial retribution system would work nicely. You're over 21, you get 2 strikes, then on your 3rd conviction the debt collectors descend.

Steal a package worth 20? £100 comes out of your bank account every week for the next 12 months, and straight into the pocket of the person you robbed. And you gotta give up an hour a week for the next 12 months to do their gardening, clean their car, empty their bins etc too while they sip sangria and the neighbours gather to livestream and mock you. Indentured servant style.

Steal a car worth 10k? 30k bounty on ya head and you'll work to pay it off like a student loan repayment. Plus you'll have to pay that person's Uber bills for the next 12 months. No money? All your assets seized and off to the chain gain with ya.

That'll stop the fools.

A couple of days really isn't a very long time.

"So once I clocked on what had happened, I went round there to collect it - couple of days later."

It's a days later. How long were you expecting her to store it for? I'd have left it outside to be collected and put it in the bin in a few days if it hadn't been taken.

'The downside for me is the stress of the whole thing'

Exactiy! Why bother for a 20 quid sports direct item. You made a mistake with the delivery address you should've just let it go.

I'm astounded that the police are pursuing it.

Oh @BitOutOfPractice I see you did report it! Good for you, don’t let her get away with it, it won’t be that bad at court - just the magistrates in worse case scenario but she may admit it and get a caution or another “out of our disposal”.

Go for it!

I’m not really sure actually…

I agree with you, it’s the sense of injustice and not the way you would behave. A reasonable person (which she clearly isn’t) would want to help you and would be happy to hand it over to you. For those people saying it’s only £20, it’s missing the point. It’s something that leaves a bad taste in your mouth, what ever happened to the moral code of some people. 😡. Maybe some bad karma will get her soon.

It's great your local police have taken seriously and progressed it. Hopefully more forces will start doing the same as all the low level crime going unaddressed is rotting away at societies roots.
Fingers crossed shoplifting is next on the list because we're all paying for that with higher prices.

ahahaja where is the laugh reaction gone?! 😤