To think postmen etc should not be allowed to deliver parcels to neighbours without explicit permission

John Wayne Gacy perhaps?

I know right! Do they think a sex offender is grinding on their parcel LOL 😂

I think you sound like a miserable cow who lives in a very rough area. Not everyone is or does.

I know right! What a miserable person this must be to have posted this!

So you have to then traipse to the post office to collect a parcel from the sorting hub? God, what a miserable post

Put a note on your door. ‘Please DON’T ask the neighbours to take in my parcels’

Living in a set back house on a busy road with no pavement on our side is great. You can't see our house behind a huge hedge so our stuff gets left outdoor in the porch it can be left open if we're out

At royal mail thats what posties are told to do. I wasn't keen when I worked there doing so

Thank goodness we live in rural North Yorkshire where neighbours are still happy to help each other, and we can just tell Postman Pete if we want something putting somewhere different.

Royal Mail used to do that in the UK, it was an absolute b0llache. Our Post Office is the other end of the village inside a petrol station with a manager who doesn’t know how to schedule staff and doesn’t stick to the published opening hours. Would turn up to get something and they would be shut!

Where on earth do you live?

Even if they are on the register, it’s a parcel, it is very unlikely they r0p£ you on the doorstep. Perhaps just don’t go inside their house?

It actually is - unless you happen to catch the 3 second window they allow you to reschedule.

Why is it stressful? Just be nice to them and say thank you. We all take each others parcels in here - a couple of us WFH on different days so there’s usually someone around.

If I can I will rearrange for a day we are in but they don’t always let you do that.

Of course she isn't. She'll be able to get a replacement, since the item was delivered unsafely AND get the courier/postie sacked in the process. Win win

He's the pedo who sniffs Amazon boxes

Oh well, WE’RE sorry that WE have jobs and lives that necessitate us being out. Jesus.
Maybe trying to redeliver later or on another day?
Bearing in mind the footage we’ve all seen about Royal Mail blatantly not delivering I wouldn’t be so sanctimonious.

Yep. When did post parcels become a drama? 🙄🙄🙄🙄

I work in online retail customer service.
The amount of people who order when they know they won’t be home to receive a delivery is unbelievable.
If you don’t want your parcel leaving with a neighbour or in a safe place then order it to be delivered when you know someone will be home to accept the parcel.

Our postie is brilliant, he tends to leave in our secure porch. But we’re lucky we live on a friendly street (city not a village). I don’t mind taking in parcels for neighbours and they don’t for me. (As I say we’re friendly so I tend to text them to let them know I have their parcel and they just collect when back home from work/day out) as do them to me. But then we do live somewhere where each other drop off keys if away or come asking for supplies/DIY tools etc. Only issue is you go to collect your parcel and leave 30 minutes later after an cuppa and chat!

Nothing constructive to add here, except to say how much I'm enjoying this thread. Peak Mumsnet nuttiness, where all neighbours are strangers and potentially on the sex offenders register, where it's "mortifying" to have someone knock on your door and calling round to collect a parcel causes "haunting stress". I mean, what the actual blue buggering fuck is going on here? 😬

I take any and every neighbours parcel, unless I'm too ill to take it in. I am the unofficial neighbourhood depot.

Sometimes though the person collecting doesn't even give me any thanks believe it or not, and this thread is reflective of how increasingly detached people feel from other people.

True.. but does that mean your neighbour is more likely to be a sex offender? Say If 1% of the population were sex offenders then and 1% of the population are sex offenders now (for arguments sake) then dos that mean they you had a 1/100 chance of living next to a sex offender then and a 1/100 chance of living next to a sex offender now?

And everyone else who has told you they don't get updates or a 2 hour slot I suppose?
When I enter the tracking number on the RM website it states clearly on there that it cannot update until the parcel is delivered. This has happened several times with different companies. Sometimes I get updates and a 2 hr slot. Sometimes I get this. It depends on the service purchased. It's not a glitch. And, no I don't know why this is the case.
Why can't you accept you are wrong?

In any case, I prefer Evri around here. My local courier is great although I know it's not the case everywhere.

Ok but I know the technology it uses so what you’re saying doesn’t really make sense. Anything that isn’t first or second class is tracked. Tracking data is accessible via their website using the tracking number. If they don’t send you this usually the company your purchased from do. It’s just what you’re saying doesn’t really make sense in terms of the actual service they use. But maybe something went wrong with your orders and it was some kind of malfunction.