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

This is the issue. OP thinks it was wrongly delivered. Neighbours thought it was handed to them for safekeeping.

This thread is hilarious!! 🤣 AND ridiculous!! I can’t believe it’s made it to 14 pages!!

To be fair, most of that is OP stamping her feet and shouting “But I didn’t know they’d got it!! How was I supposed to know? Why didn’t they just drop everything to hand deliver it to meeeee?!”

So unreasonable. It's your parcel go and find it. If you'd not turned up after 2/3 days I might wander down and knock assuming you had no notification, but not after 1 day. You're being precious.

This thread is hilarious!! 🤣 AND ridiculous!! I can’t believe it’s made it to 14 pages!!

Oh well, in for a penny! 😂

Yep, I really wouldn’t have given it any thought, life is busy, and would have given it several days until I became postie myself. Regardless to shape, size, colour. Well, I may try sooner if large as it’d be in my way!

@FrostedCandyAngel I really hope your neighbour doesn’t read this and realise it’s about them!

It's on the delivery company to let you know it's there and for you to collect it. Your neighbour was probably assuming you were coming over. Did you thank them for taking it in for you? Sounds like you need a neighbours' WhatsApp group. I live in London and it's lovely to actually know the names of neighbours. We message about stuff like deliveries and ask for recommendations for electricians etc. It makes living in an anonymous city a lot more enjoyable.

Your parcel you collect it. Yabu

Obviously it couldn't just be put through the letterbox if a pic had to be taken. What if the neighbours put it through the door and you then complained you hadn't got it or the dog ate it? If i was handed in something common sense to me would be to wait for someone to take it from my hand, properly. I wouldn't walk down and shove it through the letterbox. It's not the same as a letter posted through the wrong letterbox.

I take parcels in for neighbours all the time as it's a block of flats and I'm the only one not working and home all day.

I never take the parcels to them, I wait for them to come to me. I already did them the favour of taking it in, I'm not playing a guessing game as to when they'll be home and knocking several times.

You got your package, say thanks and don't accuse people helping you of being rude.

That seems unlikely as a signature wasn’t required and it easily fit in the letterbox.
if I were the neighbour I’d probably question why they don’t just deliver to correct address.
our couriers often post thru the door or even leave by the door.

Totally agree, I only know the neighbors next door and maybe one other, no clue who lives 8 doors away!

So the option is they could have said they were not accepting it and send it back would this have been better?

But the neighbours don't know you didn't get a card through the door. And they can't really be expected to think through all the logistics of whether it fits in a letter box or not and why it was left there. They probably assumed (or were told) the delivery was because you were out, and gave it no more thought. It wasn't the main event of their day . Especially if it's the type of delivery where they take a photo for tracking as those wouldn't normally be posted through a letter box would they? It's not comparable to a mis delivered letter. If they know a photo was taken they may have assumed the tracking would also tell you the house number it was left at. Letters don't usually have photos and tracking.

At least they kept it for you, just be grateful! You don't know them or their routine, they may have had 101 things to do or a sick relative to deal with which prevented them brinig it to you!

Maybe your neighbour didn’t want to go round, find you weren’t home, then have the dilemma of do they put it through your letterbox or not. Because some people will accuse someone else of stealing their parcel - so if you hand it to them, you know for certain they’ve received it.

As for not spotting the name/house number - maybe they were expecting a parcel themselves so didn’t pay attention to the label? I’ve had that before (although it had our address on, it then had a completely different name).

Your anger is misplaced. You should be cross with RM for delivering to the wrong house if the parcel was clearly labelled correctly.

If I were the neighbour I would have said - This is not my address, sorry, it is a few houses down - then gone back to my gardening.

If the Postie had said - I couldn't fit this small parcel into no. 60's letter box, would you mind taking it on their behalf. Or I can take it back to the P.O.? And I would have taken it and resolved to deliver it to you over the weekend.

Postie took a picture of the driveway so you could track down your parcel rather than waiting to visit the P.O. on Monday.

I am surprised that a small sentence was not on the tracking information stating exactly which address the Postie had left your parcel. Maybe that would be opening the Postie up to being repremanded for not strictly delivering the parcel, or taking it back to P.O.

Depending on what is going on in my own life as to when I dropped it off, but chances are it would be that same day. I know people may be anxiously waiting for it. I'd probably have realized before accepting it that it was not for our house though. But having chronic illness means no guarantees.

I think the situation here is that it may very well be that your neighbours were being unreasonable but at the 30 hour mark I think they're still Schrödinger's neighbour: both potentially reasonable and potentially inconsiderate.

I get parcels delivered for the neighbours all the time. I don't give much thought to it at all, especially not at to the size of the parcel etc. Any it may have been a busy weekend. I completely agree that the considerate thing to do would be drop the parcel over but I reckon you've got to give them a bit north of 48 hours before you assume they were being inconsiderate. I don't think they have a duty to immediately stop what they're doing and drop it over.

I never take in deliveries for anyone. If the people concerned are not in. Then it's is is their problem. Same with post.
Just return it to sender

Also on the small estate where l live several moths back, several.parcels were left with new neighbours who swore bilind they had not taken them in. Delivery company denied having a record of this.

This sort of thing does happen.

Tracked delivery needs to take a photo when it's delivered.

Maybe the postie has been told not to post it through the letterbox, and to ensure it's handed to a person?

Either way, your beef is with the Delivery Office, and not with your neighbours.

Can’t believe it’s just me that thinks this is crazy!

OK but you asked if YABU and you've then posted several times making the same argument again and persistently expressing surprise. That makes the thread slightly pointless.

This has happened to me a few times, where a courier has delivered me a parcel that was for another address. It’s always in the middle of the day when I’m working from home, and usually busy in the middle of something, or on a call. Since I get regular parcels anyway, I don’t stop and inspect the address of every one before taking them in! I assume that the courier knows where they should be delivering it!

Also, they don’t always knock on the door. I’ve had someone else’s parcel dumped in my bin before. I only discovered it by chance!

Agree that 30 hours isn’t long at all for redelivering it. I’m working during the day and often out in the evening. I’ll take it round when it’s convenient for me.

I’m not the gobshite who thinks her neighbours are at her beck and call.

I’m just way too busy to think about this. By the time we’ve got the kids to bed and cleaned up dinner and got their things ready for the next nights training/dinner plan, it’s 10 pm and we have washing to fold, plants to water, things to do for our kids sports clubs and nursery, work I said I’d send that night, I’ve already skipped the gym as too much on, and if I get to bed by midnight it’s a good day. Give people a break with your judging, it takes me a week to collect my own parcels.