To wait until he comes around for his parcel

Don’t put it in their doorstep. You’ll create a problem for yourself if it’s stolen. Just ask him to collect t it today.

I'm even pettier and would ignore the door when he knocks for it 🤣🤣🤣

I wondered that too!

I suggest you take the parcel over to his, do not knock, do not leave a note, just leave parcel outside so he falls over it when he exits the front door and do not accept any further deliveries of any size or weight.

I wfh and my previous neighbours constantly put me down and never collected their parcels. I stopped
accepting them

I was so apologetic when a parcel was delivered to a neighbour the other day. It’s an inconvenience, especially for people who are trying to work from home.

I think I’d be tempted to leave it on his doorstep next time it’s pissing with rain. Or when he does knock and ask for it, make him wait for ages on the doorstep pretending to look for it.

From experience sometimes Royal Mail does sometimes they don't...and if it's companies like Evri they probably don't.
You could ask them if they had a notification next time?

I don’t understand why he doesn’t answer the door, or isn’t in for the postman but does for you

Ok so a complete randomer then?! 🤷🏻‍♀️

Here’s what I’d do. Go round with the parcel and knock. If he’s not in, pop a note saying you’ll need it picking up by the end of tomorrow or you’ll return and leave it on his step. Then tell him either to his face if he answers or in the note that you won’t be taking in further parcels for him as it’s not convenient to store them and not have them collected. You aren’t a post office. He needs to select a new safe space, get things delivered to work or use tracking info to see when things are due and reschedule to days where he’ll be in. He has plenty of options, he’s just a lazy CF.

If it’s big they might leave it for you to store so when they eventually come I would definitely say oh it was returned to the carrier I thought it had been delivered in error. After they panic tell them it’s in the garage but won’t be taking any more parcels.

Who is ‘he’ please?

My advice would very much depend on this - could be a grown up but dozy son, dad or father in law, could be an ex in which case are you amicable/ is he kids’ dad? Or is he just a random?

Sorry if I’ve missed something, am newly bereaved so not firing on all cylinders, but without the context of ‘he’ in the OP’s original post, I’m unsure as to how to advise x

@quietmagic I have a neighbour like this, never collects his parcels, his stuff has sat at ours for weeks and in the end it’s started to get on my nerves as it’s just in the way.

He’s never collected his parcels, we always had to drop them off.

Whenever the postman asks if we can take a parcel I always check which neighbour it’s for, if it’s his, I just say no sorry as he doesn’t bother to collect his parcels and they seem fine with this.

I'm with you, I would keep it forever.

When (if) he came over, I would tell him no more parcels will be taken in and it is taking the piss leaving them in your house.

@quietmagic Or, if they eventually come to collect, thank them for their generous Christmas gift and then close the door.

@quietmagic I'm in such a bad mood today that I encourage you to take it to the tip.

We had this in the run up to last Christmas with one of our neighbours. It drove me mad and in the end when yet another parcel had sat in my living room for three days, I went and knocked on her door - without the parcel - and told her that I had a parcel for her at my house. She didn’t come round until the following day when, annoyingly, my husband was in and he was all nice and chatty with her which spoilt my fun no end. 😂

I've stopped accepting parcels for neighbours, I don't want the hassle of it. When the delivery guy knocks I just tell him no.

It that case, I’d take it to him, say here is your parcel which again I’ve had to bring to you and we won’t be accepting any more.

dont accept anymore parcels

If you still haven't told him you have it, I think YABU. Cards get lost or rained on, they're not always legible, sometimes it's just a token biro mark instead of a house number.

Text him when you have them - that’s how it works on my street

The parcel problem has come to my house. My neighbour has four parcels from Next in my porch. I just leave them there now if she picks them up great 👍🏻 if she doesn’t I get the next delivery driver to take them back.

to solve the problem I now lock my porch door. I don’t have any other parcels and I won’t be getting any either!

I had this exact problem with a couple that lived next door, it really was a case of they never ever came to get their parcels. Sometimes I’d be struggling down the road with heavy boxes and then waiting a million years for them to open the door.
I tried leaving it to see if they would eventually turn up, but they never did. In the end after a year of constantly taking in parcels for them, I stopped taking them in for them. Problem solved.

Put a note through his door saying come collect your parcel.