How long must I keep neighbours’ parcels left at my house?

Makes no sense if you’re not on - the couriers are supposed to ask permission to leave a parcel for a neighbour. When this happens I just keep ringing on their door a few times a day in case I was out when they came, ever had one more than about 3/4 days. I’d keep it longer if they were away.

if the address is indeed a neighbour then I’d out of courtesy try to deliver it to them or possibly just dump in in a ‚safe place‘ on their doorstep because I’d have no clue how to return it to a courier.

if you know how to return ton lurker you can do that straight away really as you didn’t t accept the parcel. Royal Mail keep for 2 weeks before resending but they do accept responsibility and they do have storage

The gates of my garden are mostly locked. I only open when Im expecting a parcel or visitor. In one week Evri left two misdelivered parcels outside my gate. Both were for houses the other side of the estate and I am mobility impaired. A relative appered 3 days later and offered to drop them off on his way home. The first house there was a car in th drive but no one would answer the door. He left the parcel on the step. The second house the woman moaned because he had taken 3 days to deliver her parcel. Relative explained that it was misdelivered to his disabled aunt who had no way of bringing it along. When she still moaned he told her "Next time I will tell my aunt to either bin it or leave it out to get stolen."

No good deed goes unpunished.

Id take them to post office marked as return to sender until the message got through

Id probably dump them on the correct doorsteps: take photos and pop a note through their door

it may take time but ill bet they make alternate arrangements in future

What, do other people's admin for them? I don't think so.
Plus, have you actually tried calling a courier company? You get a bot at best.

Can you call the courier companies and tell them you won’t accept parcels for other houses?

Why can’t you just send the addressee a message saying they can collect their parcel from your doorstep and forget about it? Why is it such a big deal?

Tell the delivery company they've delivered to the wrong address and get them to collect them. It's their fault.

What gets me is when the email "confirmation" says handed to resident, when it certainly wasn't.

So they are just leaving them outside your property even though they aren’t yours and you’ve not accepted them? Why can’t they leave them outside the correct address? And they are ignoring sign saying not to leave any? How annoying. I get you’ve decided not to redeliver but I’m not sure how else you get rid of them. I am good terms with my neighbours though so don’t have a particular problem with re delivering and they occasionally do the same for me. If you just binned them or whatever you might get in bother for not just taking them to the person or contacting the courier company. What a complete nuisance.
I wouldn’t destroy them but I would leave them off my property, like out on the street.
Is it the same neighbours all the time? I would send them a one off, generic note saying ‘the couriers are continuing to leave your parcels on my property. I’m not taking responsibility for delivering them to you nor am I keeping them so in future you will need to come and collect them from outside my front fence. They are left there at your own risk so please collect asap’.

This drives me nuts too. I will take a parcel for next door because they always come and collect it the same day and vice versa but no one else. They never come to collect! I’ve thrown them over the fence before now but just refuse to get involved in the process. Life admin is enough for my own household without doing theirs too!

And what if the neighbours have no idea where their parcel is? I had a courier put that I’d accepted my parcel at my address when I was miles away at work! The proof of delivery photo was a photo of my parcel on a piece of tarmac with a tiny strip of grass to one side. Just that, nothing else.

I went round my whole estate knocking everyone’s door but no-one had it. I then walked down the road to another estate looking at pieces of tarmac to see if I could spot one that looked like my photo or, indeed, spot my parcel. I did eventually find it but only by a stroke of luck as some woman had had it dumped down the side of her house, kindly took it into her house, and had then seen me rushing round frantically outside.

Couriers hardly ever leave cards now so the poor recipient has no idea where their parcel is.

Do you have a neighbourhood WhatsApp? We don't but I have the number of the neighbours who take parcels for us and us for them. We only message to say when we're in for them to pick up or to ask if they've taken in any parcels that have gone missing. They've got a toddler so I don't like to knock on their door too late and texting works for both of us. I work from home so it's no bother for me to take them in.

My next door neighbours don't take parcels in (they're disabled and getting to the door is a huge faff so it's totally fine) but we'll take theirs in.

Sorry - this is all very boring! I think my point is: see if you can find a way of messaging without inconveniencing yourself by having to leave the house. I don't know why the delivery companies are ignoring your signs. How annoying!

They are leaving at here property.

Bizarre that aside from the courier continuing to deliver, the true recipients aren’t even bothered about their parcels whereabouts or if they receive them or not?!

We used to get parcels for others because though there are lots of houses with the same postcode along our road our house was the one satnavs directed drivers to (no house numbers, just names, in our road).
Nb. We get our own parcels sent to a local drop off point now, it is a lot safer.

Leave it in the front garden where it was put

Put a large note on it:

'Parcel for No x
Contains TV(?)
Please Take'

It's not your fault if someone other than No x takes it!

Delivery drivers barely bother to ring the doorbell now, in fact most don’t. One tried to force a package through the letterbox last week, which, had he succeeded, would have broken it.

I’m baffled as to why you would take these round to the neighbours? Just leave them until they come to you, don’t take them inside. The message will soon land…

We had this with amazon for a while. A house about a 5 minute walk from us with a similar address but a bit harder to find kept ordering from Amazon and Amazon kept leaving it outside our house. We were patient to a point because it was new baby items but it was several times a week. In the end we told them and Amazon we would not bring items addressed to them inside, we did not accept them or responsibility for them. After a week all the items disappeared and it hasn't happened since

I would put them out on the pavement. If anyone's going to be investigated for fly tipping it would be the person who's name and address is written on the parcel, not you.

I have couriers that don’t read delivery instructions. We are in. They don’t even knock and so we don’t know it’s there. Get a notification saying delivered and a photo. I have it on all my instructions to not leave outside as we have porch pirates. So started saying not received and because I put leave with neighbour in instructions the seller has to send another one. Takes some time as they do their own internal investigation first.

I then donate the spare item to charity. It has stopped as I send doorbell proof showing they didn’t even ring the bell. I also verbally told the Evri driver that we regularly have that if he didn’t ring the bell I would deny the item was received every single time they left it outside.

I would tip the box back over your fence or hedge and while it technically is littering it is not YOUR litter and the owner of the parcel will be the one to answer to a litter charge.

Hi OP, where we live we have a local Facebook page. Its amazing how many people post on it asking if anyone has received their parcel in error, or if anyone recognises the doorstep on the delivery photo. Also folk post to say they have received parcels addressed to Mrs Xxx and if anyone knows them can they get in touch. I realise that if a person moves, it's their responsibility to make sure addresses are updated etc. Hope it gets sorted soon x

Shitty is a bit harsh. They are minimum wage workers delivering tat to confusing roads with houses with gates.