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

The neigbour might not be coming for them because they don't know you have them.
I just had it. Absolute no indication where the courier left it. None. I have instructions in case I am not home, I was anyway! Guy was not pleased having to bring them over, but I imply couldn't get out of amazon where they were.
Half the couriers do not read house numbers, signs, instructions.

I don't think there is easy solution. You all have signs etc. It's just shitty local delivery person. I miss my old good one...

I am not even surprised like others that some delivery just leaves them willy nilly at yours. Evri reddit shows things like that happen.

There’s no way a courier is leaving a parcel outside a neighbours house instead of outside the recipients house. Not in a million years.

I genuinely think it will be because your neighbours have ticked ‘deliver to a neighbour if out’ - they may even have an historic ‘if out, leave at No XX’ from previous neighbour - so they need to update this on every courier platform.

On all the platforms I use (Evri, DHL, DPD etc) I have ‘if out, please try neighbour at no XX’ so I have one nominated neighbour, and they have the same notice on their orders, so it is reciprocal. But the courier always knocks to check I am in and ask if I am happy to take it. It’s never just left - otherwise, why not just leave it on the recipients door step?

I would definitely drop a note in all their doors and say something like please amend your delivery preferences or any future parcels will be returned to sender or binned.

What a cheek!

Coul it be because the houses have names not numbers and the courtiers can't find the right houses? If so, a large notice on your gate with a rough map showing the houses whose deliveries you get, might sort it.
I would be grateful if my neighbour round the corner who always gets my Evri deliveries would do this. It is a holiday cottage and whether I get them depends on the availability of a serious of holiday makers.

To answer your question tho, Evri for example give you three days to collect if you have a parcel delivered to a pickup point. I had a delivery in store to waitrose and Argos last week and they both gave 48 hours. That seems fair

This… why would they leave it outdoors at an alternative address and not outdoors at the correct address. Bizarre.

Then again couriers have uploaded their proof I wasn’t home and it’s just a photo of a tree. Not even my tree.

Sounds like a new build estate? My parents have the same problem. Gated community, they are the first property, tho bizarrely, number two as it just even numbers! They get everything delivered to them as it was the show home/site office. They are retired tho and love the interaction of all the neighbours coming to collect parcels. It would drive me barmy tho.

But she’s not a delivery service, why should she have to?

If you move the parcels to the pavement, that will be fly-tipping. Although it won't be your name and address on the parcels when the Council start to investigate... But they might still trace it to you.

I'd leave them in your garden near the gate. Around here they'd get stolen pretty quickly.

A similar sort of thing used to happen to my parents because their house was most convenient. They were at the start of a busy road and had a wide driveway. I'm sure drivers stopped there and just unloaded all the parcels for that street to save them having to negotiate the narrow road and parked cars. They didn't even try to properly deliver.

Everyone was annoyed about it. My parents and the people on the street, some 10 houses away, who weren't getting their parcels delivered.

My dad attempted to contact the bigger courier companies but nothing happened. They've moved house so I don't know if anything ever changed.

That would really annoy me OP! Can you tell from the delivery labels which courier delivered them (i think some have the courier name on the parcel), and then raise a complaint direct with the courier that you have signage saying only parcels for your address to be left, which are being ignored?

To be honest, appreciate it's a hassle, but I'd be tempted to also request the courier collects them again as an incorrect delivery each time, if you're making it a pain for them maybe they will take action themselves.

I don't really understand why they are doing this especially if you are out too. From your description though is it simply that the other houses are hard to find? A bit of a trek? Therefore due to being on a tight schedule (which if not completed will impact their pay) they are simply taking the easy option and using your garden as a drop off point?

One thing to note is that I don't always get a picture notifying me of where a parcel has been left or even if a parcel has been. So while not the case for every parcel you receive, it might be that for some the neighbours don't realise you have their parcel and might even be contacting the companies saying it's not been delivered.

I wouldn’t touch them, just leave them on the road outside your house or wherever they are left.

If they get stolen or damaged it’s nothing to do with you.

I just take them and drop them at their front door.

If they are left on your garden furniture i works bout move them, let them get rained on etc. if they want them they will collect. In time they will get the message.

Put them on the pavement and leave them there. When they keep getting rained on and ruined or stolen, your neighbours will get the message.

I would just move them off my property. I wouldn’t deliver them to the houses. I would just move them onto the street and so be it

Am bemused that they are leaving parcels when you are out… because the recipient is also out? That makes no sense!

I would notify your neighbours that they need to change their delivery preferences because going forward you will be binning any parcels that are not addressed to you that are left on your property. It can constitute nuisance under the law if they are knowingly redirecting post to a neighbour without consent, so I would make clear that you feel this is the case.

I would also put bigger signs for the couriers and in very very simple language - ‘Do not leave parcels for any other addresses here. I do not accept parcels for anyone else.’