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

Or what is more reasonable is that it's shitty couriers that don't read the house numbers or even street names.
I've had parcels left with neighbours, in the street over from me, and also in a block of flats 5 minutes drive from my house!

When I went on maternity leave last year suddenly I started getting parcels for a house across and up from me. So not even a direct neighbour. They were left in my garden too for me to deliver. No thanks to that I was not picking up a shift for Royal mail while on mat leave. Anyway turned out she had left a note to go to me knowing i was off now. Check that out

I might start taking the parcels back to the drop off points if I am taking a parcel I am sending at the same time.
I would do this. Don't put yourself out, but do it if it suits you.

Have you got gates you can close over? Bit of a pain for a month but by putting the house number on the gate latch [No 15 only] you might curb things a bit.

I wouldn't be bothering with the neighbours parcel box, I'd just lob it down the driveway but to be fair to your neighbours they aren't the cause of this either unless they've put you down as a default address.

Sadly I think many really do not actually read English, especially if handwritten, and don’t bother to use the translate apps because they are penalised for non delivery or for not completing them in any given day.

In our road we have a whatsapp, and in these circs would simply leave the parcel on the door step and announce in the app, ‘parcel received for Jo Blogs in error. Left on doorstep as I am out’. Then it’s down to them to come and collect it, which luckily people always seem to do. Not sure what you are supposed to do if you have ‘busy’ or forgetful neighbours who don’t collect them? Chuck them over the fence onto their property? But threatening to bin them is legal IMHO - if you have notified them that this is the action you are taking for any wrongly delivered items. If they do not collect their items, then they have technically been abandoned and you are within your rights to bin them.

Repeat offenders I would leave the parcel there and pour a bucket of water over it/jump on it (especially if it says fragile). You've hadn't accepted the parcel and therefore you are not responsible for it.

Is there a local whatapp group? If there is then you could send a to say
Due to personal reasons I cannot accept parcels that are being left at my gate.
If you don’t I would pop a note through the relevant doors and then leave it. And what @NorthSouthEast wrote

If your neighbours have gates and they the delivery drivers can’t access for delivery that is probably why they are being left at your house.

Actually I like the idea of delivering them to the neighbours’ drived but the WRONG neighbours (obviously only the ones she keeps getting parcels for).

Let them see how annoying it is.

Like I said because I was half asleep and I wasn’t even sure of the time until I shut the door and looked at the clock. I assumed it was 9 or something

why did you get up?

I was having a lie in because my meeting didn’t start until 10am wfh and I hadn’t slept well for a few days so was fast asleep when my neighbour rang my phone asking for her parcel at 7:15am. I was so taken aback and sleepy that I just handed it over without a word but not impressed.

Absolutely they are, happened to me on many occation.
Equally every day on SM there are multiple posts asking if "anyone knows who's front door this is as my parcel has been left there" or "does anyone know a Mr/s x as I have their parcel".
Evri are mainly the worst.

They do with us because our house is set back up a footpath and sometimes they can't be bothered. Amazon were really bad for this and used to leave it at our nasty neighbours. They eventually got the message that we weren't going round to collect as it would end up with police involvement and no way would they bring to ours so they had to keep sending replacements.

Put it outside your gate. And then ignore it.

If may get stolen. But it could get stolen off your garden furniture, so...

Put up a large sign on your door in capital letters saying that you accept parcels only for this property.

I do agree she can’t just open and keep the stuff on the day of delivery.

As a strategy, I think the right way to fix things long term is to put pressure on the neighbours by getting the vendor to have their courier collect the items. When the neighbours’ orders aren’t delivered in time they will chase up with the vendor.

We get this. It drives me round the bend as we are rural and it involves me traipsing off to find the correct houses. I find the couriers don't even knock, just leave the parcel in the porch so I sometimes have people knocking on my door to ask for a parcel I didn't even know was there. Worst case was when a parcel arrived and no one came to collect it. I kept going to the correct house but no one ever in and the parcel wouldn't fit though their letterbox. About 9.30pm after I'd had the parcel for about two weeks, neighbour hammering on the door, tears in her eyes, absolutely furious because I had been 'keeping' her engagement ring! I tried to explain that I had been down to her house on a number of occasions, but nope, she just kept ranting at me and then stormed off! If I do catch the courier now, I refuse to take any parcels but it doesn't help with the ones that just get left. I wish I knew how to stop it.

Even as an involuntary bailee she can't destroy or dispose of goods wirhout legal prodecure.

I was answering the poster Anapple who said to keep the parcels and open them, keeping the good stuff and throwing the rest, THAT is theft if she knowinlg deprives the legal owner of the goods by keeping them herself.

You have done enough.

If the couriers are leaving them without you present then there is zero proof they are in your posession.

Either throw them in the bin, leave them outside the relevant addresses or open them, take what you want and bin the rest. You have done your bit, who is to say they werent all stolen from where the couriers dumped them.

If she has refused to accept the parcel - which is clear given she has put a notice up - you could argue it’s been dumped and is rubbish that could be binned

i would think however it would be classed as lost property then you have to take some kind of step to avoid becoming responsible- a note on social media of the company or a note in the neighbours door and keep it for a month ( or if you do a note in ther door you could probably get away with stating 7 days )

i would NOT take the item - I would put a note through the door because they need to take responsibility

I don’t think that’s correct.

If she tells the delivery company and gives them the opportunity to collect the parcels and within a reasonable time they don’t, she’s entitled to keep them.

I believe she is in the role of an “involuntary Bailee” in legal terms and there are well established rules for that.

Couriers don't read signs. My front door opens outwards, and I have 3 signs at varying heights that state this. They still leave parcels propped up against the door.