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

It would be seen as theft on part of OP if she is knowingly depriving the cfers of their parcels. They don't deserve them I agree but OP need to do things properly or she could get into trouble.

You've done the first thing with signs, the 2nd being notifying the cfers about their parcels.
The next thing is to contact the compamy delivering and complain, let them sort their couriers out. The parcels get dumped on you because the couriers have so many and you are an easy dumping area, large garden, you're at home etc but that's not the point. If the couriers get moaned at /job threatened that is not your problem.
Please don't leave anything in the street as that could be seen as fly tipping.

Exactly !

It makes me wonder if there is some kind of scam going on .....

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2026/feb/15/brushing-fraud-britons-
mystery-parcels-scam-review

https://www.callercheck.co.uk/guides/parcel-delivery-scams

Yes there is. It happened to us a lot because we had a bigger drive / garden - it was much easier than navigating the rest of the narrow track.

Why would you say this never happened when other people are saying that it does happen?

Just put the packages in your bin. Up to your neighbours if they get to them before the bin men.

Or open the packages up and keep the good items and throw the other stuff away.

Can you put a note through the door of the worst offenders and say that if they continue to get parcels delivered to yours, you are no longer prepared to take any responsibility for notifying them or storing them so in future they will be left outside and you assume no responsibility for the contents . You could finish with a nice passive aggressive line such as “Thank you in advance for your understanding.”

How can they access your garden furniture?

I feel the need for a diagram!

Honestly OP in your shoes I would leave some parcels out in the rain if they’re related to repeat offenders - maybe tip some extra water on them and make them look a bit fox chewed for good measure - and then deliver to them.
Basically you need the recipients to be sufficiently motivated to contact the courier companies and change the instructions to “absolutely do NOT deliver to number <your address>”.

My neighbours used to leave parcels here for weeks on end, the record was 6 weeks they would turn up sheepishly saying they didnt know they were here even though I could hear them on their ring doorbell saying to drop them here! And they weren’t tiny parcels either things like TVs and double beds Even had their family members who don’t live on my street getting their parcels sent here!! Figured they were using my home as their storage unit until they needed the item.

I completely refuse to take them now, had a delivery driver hand me one of the weekend and only told me after it was my neighbours I handed it back to him and shut the door on him. i would either put their parcels outside their doors, or tell them if it happens again you’ll return it to the sender.

Have you got a list of all the people you’re providing this unwelcome service for?

Why don’t you muddle things up a bit and return them to the wrong front gardens? Have a bit of fun with it 😂

We had this because we had a long drive, bigger garden and were in a better position for the courier to then turn around his van. Happened so much.

They’re not knocking, read the OP posts

In my experience once you start saying no a few times, the courier drives know not to knock. I haven’t got time
to run around handing out parcels to neighbours.

I've often been the neighbour who accepts parcels for others on my street as I WFH. Every time I ask the courier if they will put the card through neighbour 's door so they know to come and collect. They always say they will do. Yet my neighbours say they've not received any notifications do didn't know to come pick ip from me.

Your case is different as I don't understand why they would leave them at yours so at wrong address.

Haha you're joking. Amazon has several times left next door's parcels at my front door. These are parcels addressed correctly with their name and number, and our house numbers are clear. Next door even have a parcel delivery box and a ring doorbell. But Amazon still sometimes delivers incorrectly.

If stuff is delivered to you that you didn’t order, you can tell the vendor (not the delivery company) that they have thirty days to remove it from your property at their own cost or you’ll either keep it, dispose of it, or pay for it to be removed and issue proceedings to recover the cost (if it’s something big you don’t want) at your own choice.

Open the package if you need to find out who sent it, email them, and put the package in your shed or somewhere out of sight. If they don’t arrange to collect (at your convenience) in a month, then it’s yours to keep.

You must have better couriers than ours!
One time our parcel was missing for days until bin day when our next door neighbour found it had been dropped over their gate and been hidden from view by their bin!
Ive also had other houses letters 3 times in the last year, had neighbours parcels left by our back or front door, and ours at neighbours despite someone being home at ours and noone knocking.

You're hilarious! Our local Facebook group is mainly photos of parcels on random doorsteps with "does anyone recognise this front door?" written underneath.

I have come to the conclusion that some delivery drivers are actually illiterate.

I put a note right on my doorbell last week telling the courier to leave the parcel in a specific place if I was out. They ignored it and took it back to their depot and I had to drive 15 miles to get it as their next delivery day was after the weekend and I needed it before then.

Leave them out front then forget about them if fed up with taking them around to the right address. Someone will take them, even if not the person's name and address on them. Strange though, your delivery folk are particularly rubbish!

What planet do you live on?

It was only a couple of weeks ago that my neighbour's parcel was on my doorstep on a modern well marked housing estate.

Why should she?? She’s not a courier. She doesn’t want them left there and has told them not to do it. Hence why I’d leave them just off my property and whatever happens to them isn’t on me!

I work from home so I’m literally always in. But half the time parcels still go somewhere else - maybe to minimise the number of times they have to stop off on the street. And no one ever leaves a card. I’ve had a neighbour come over in a fury about a parcel - had no idea he had it, or that it was even out for delivery, and I’d been in all day. It does make me less like to be pissed off at a neighbour - I think it’s really the delivery companies that are to blame. (And obviously being in all the time, I take in a lot of parcels too).

Why are these people ordering stuff then clearly not caring if it arrives or not? I’d be v tempted to get the hosepipe out if they haven’t been rain damaged already or put up a sign ‘Free to Collect’…

Practically speaking if this is an issue affecting all the houses (and they aren’t changing their behaviour) can you all chip in for a a communal box with a number lock on it for the participating houses.

Just take them to your neighbours house.