AIBU to think it was rude they kept my misdelivered parcel?

Not really no. It's not their fault the postman gave it to them. But if it fits through a letterbox I don't know why they even knocked on the door.

You're missing the point. It's not a situation of being either 'nice' or 'rude' there is an in-between. They weren't extra nice as they didn't bring it. But they weren't rude either as it's not their responsibility whatsoever. They've done literally nothing wrong.

How would the neighbour know that? Delivery companies are supposed to leave a slip.

No it is not! It's your job to get the parcel from where it was misdelivered. Of course it's nice for them to bring it, but definitely not rude for them not to. Especially not within 30 hrs!

So a signature wasn't needed.... but tracking info was, because a photo was taken. You seem to ignore that fact that royal mail don't take photos of every letter they post. There was a photo of someone taking delivery. It is now deemed to have been delivered to them. If they now come and stick it through your door and it gets eaten by the dog/hidden by a child - you'll be pointing the finger at them. I think it's fully understandable for them to not want to just "pop it through the door".

Letters generally aren’t tracked. Therefore no reason to think the neighbour would know where it was.

I'd either drop it around if I had a moment, or stick it back in the postbox.

Of course you can asked a question. Its a distortion of the situation in the OP though.

If it was my parcel i would contact the delivery company if I was unsure where they'd put it. Definitely so if I was unhappy with them delivering my parcel 8 doors down (justifiable annoyance) The OP choose to look for the address based on the pic and found it. Happy ending.

The neighbour did absolutly nothing wrong and absolutly nothing bad happened here other than bad delivery service.

. . .but we could probly strawman this to try an convince someone that there is a situation where the neighbour can be seen as in the wrong and bad.

It required a photo proving someone accepted it. Because that is how you knew where it was. So signature or not, it needed that to track it.

I'm sure the courier would far rather have just shoved it through as well. Though they should 100% have left a card, to save you being Miss Marple, that's not the neighbour's doing.

May I ask, genuine question, if something was delivered through your letterbox with someone else’s address on it, 8 doors down/up, as opposed to a ‘parcel’, would you still think it’s up to the intended recipient to come and get it? If so, what would make you think they knew where it was?

When you lost the argument, pick on something tiny and irrelevant

Why on earth should they apologise to you?? Why were you expecting them to deliver it to you? Your email comes across as being really "entitled "

How utterly entitled of you to have a job and a life that doesn't prioritise the possibility that RM will make a delivery mistake and one of your poor neighbours will have to put a little bit of effort in to find their own parcel!!
I mean what's the world coming to when people want to sleep after a nightshift (at the weekend no less when everyone is off!) and live their life, rather than anticipate RM making a mistake and your absolute responsibility to recognise and rectify that mistake immediately and to give this situation the utmost top priority in your life. Shockingly selfish behaviour!

😁 (The above is tounge in cheek for the avoidance of doubt!)

How were they to know that the delivery driver was crap at his job and didn't leave a "left at" card? It's not their job to deliver it!

Main character syndrome

You don't sound like a pleasant neighbour because you are finding unnecessary fault with a completely innocent person who can't defend themselves because your courier didn't deliver your parcel correctly.

Your neighbour has nothing to do with you not knowing where your parcel is or it being posted through the wrong door.

They're not a delivery service and probly didn't even read the envelope to see your address. If I take a parcel in I put it to one side until the owner comes I dont check their name or house number. Who has time for that. I hate taking in parcels to be honest. Boils my blood to clutter my house with other people's things and keep them safe from my little ones. The fact someone would also expect me to deliver their parcel to them aswell . . . . behave yourself.

YABU. If your parcel is delivered to my door you need to come and collect it. I dont want your parcel and I dont want to be a postman either.

I once had someone's shoes for three months. Tried very hard to pass them on but she was never in & didn't respond to my notes. The were no good to me but if I'd had them after 6 montjs, I'd have given them to a charity shop.

My take is that you are being pretty entitled!

I work 14.5 hour days/nights. Maybe I accepted the parcel on a day when I had just got back in from my night shift before I went to bed. I then went to bed for the day, worked the night then back to sleep for the day! Dropping off a package to another house wouldn’t have been on my to-do list and if it had not been collected for a few days then yes when I had chance to drop it off (whether it was something that would fit through the door or not, it is still time out of my day) I would but sat in their hallway for 30 hours at the weekend is nothing! People have lives and it being delivered a short distance away is better than waiting for a re-delivery!

Stop being entitled!

but they didn’t find it, it got dropped into their property! They probably thought I’ll look at that when I get a minute. And 30 hours later the op is pounding at their door breathing fire.

So they didn't apologise who gives a shit.
They probably didn't see it as a big deal. They may have thought the delivery company was instructed to drop it to them in her abscense and they think SHE'S rude.
Who knows who cares.

And if I found something thanks to mumsnet I'd walk the other way because you're dammed if you do and dammed if you don't so I wouldn't bother getting involved these days.
Once I got it back to the person I'm sure there would be a thread on here about not saying or doing the right thing...

Well where WE differ is that I don’t think they’ve been thoughtless. They just took in a parcel, assumed the recipient would collect it - and she did. Where’s the drama?

This is where we differ. I don’t think it’s a level of thought or logic. My mind would go to it straightaway, as soon as I saw it was small and had someone else’s address on it.

And OP is just saying they’ve been thoughtless. Not that they’ve done anything as bad as stealing.

“Iffy”?

None of my neighbours have ever specifically asked me to take parcels in for them. But I always have if delivery drivers have asked. That doesn’t mean I’m planning on stealing them. And if it was so “iffy”, why did they hand the parcel to the OP, unopened, when she went over? Why didn’t they claim they hadn’t received it? Why hadn’t it been opened to check if it was anything worth having?

If they’re parcel thieves, actually handing the parcel to the genuine recipient makes them the worst parcel thieves ever.

I’ve done it all the time for neighbours without them explicitly asking. Because I know it’s easier to walk down a few doors than it is to try and re-arrange delivery or head to the delivery office! In return, my neighbours are kind enough to do it for me.