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

ME chill out?! Seriously, read your own thread!!

No one has said it is an acceptable delivery. And OP should indeed complain to the courier. However, that does NOT make other neighbour’s fault. It was her own fault for not checking.

The neighbours had their photo taken receiving the parcel. This suggests it was an item that had to be handed to a person, and could not be posted. Now, either this was the case, which explains why postie did not post it and quickly handed it to a nearby neighbour who happened to be out in his garden, or it was not the case but YOUR NEIGHBOURS ASSUMED IT WAS.
Think about it- if someone hands you a parcel small enough to go through a letterbox and takes a picture of you, you are likely to assume that (a) you are taking in a parcel that could not be posted through the door (perhaps contains valuables) and (b) the picture will be used to prove the the addressee that it was left with you, in combination with a note on the app or through your letterbox saying “left with number 36”. THE NEIGHBOURS DID NOT KNOW YOU HAD NOT BEEN NOTIFIED.

So they would have thought it incorrect to go and post through your door when postie had nit done that, and they thought you knew they had it.

Again…

WHAT HAS THIS GOT TO DO WITH YOUR NEIGHBOURS?!

It really isn’t.

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Well how the hell would they know the concierge hadn’t told you? Come on, get a grip.

It could have been rectified in seconds but I had to search up and down the road.

Boo bloody hoo. You had to fetch your own parcel! Hardly a life-changing hardship!

We had one for someone at the opposite end of the street. I was planning to take it up when it stopped raining but they turned up for it about 6pm.

Your neighbours were nice. They took your parcel in and safely stored it. They don't need to take it and post it through your door. They didn't need to accept it at all and I hope you thanked them for taking it in?

So they had it for less time than 2 whole days then.
Yabvu, people have lives, it wasn’t their priority and they were probably expecting that you’d been told which address it had been delivered to and would come to collect it.

I didn't say anywhere that it was an acceptable delivery or otherwise. I merely said that collecting it from a neighbour wasn't very taxing and that she didn't need to knock on up to 32 doors as you claimed she did. I have had a similar experience when the courier accidentally left the parcel at my house number but in the next road. I worked that out for myself and didn't find walking to the next road a huge chore. Nor did I expect the person who had it delivered to them to ferry it around to my house.

But your neighbour didn’t know that you didn’t know where the parcel was.

I seem to be the only person on my street that works from home so I taken in everyone’s parcels. It’s highly irritating to be constantly answering the door all the time, but hey ho. I never, ever deliver parcels. It wouldn’t occur to me. They all just stay in my hallway until someone picks them up.

Are you insane? The courier delivered to your neighbour not you. The courier didn’t leave you a note to say where they’d delivered to. It was the courier’s fault. Poor neighbour thought they were helping by taking parcel in. Never a good deed go unpunished eh?!

TBH I would assume if I took in a parcel for a neighbour they would have a slip letting them know it was at mine…it’s not for me to then deliver (obviously unless I seen them and would tell them I had a parcel for them) and if I found out a neighbour was annoyed I hadn’t delivered their parcel I would just refuse to take any for them going forward

What this thread should have opened your eyes to is that someone else's parcel isn't the most important thing in most people's lives. Last week my child had DoE, partner luckily given all clear from a serious medical issue, I've got big things happening at work that I can't fuck up and a whole bunch of financial stuff to sort out. It's odd that people can be so self-centred not to work out that other people can be busy.
And yes, I would have returned your parcel-it might have taken me till the weekend to do it, that's all.

Their life, your parcel, your problem.

You think it rude of them not having excused themselves for not being inconvenienced.
I would be very wary about an unexpected and potentially suspicious package coming through my door and wouldn’t want it.

It’s a bit odd to accept a parcel for the wrong address so perhaps someone a bit hapless (teenager, visitor, cleaner?) took it in. Otherwise why not say, “that’s not for me”? No one particularly wants other people’s post sitting in their hallway.

A parcel could easily get overlooked at my house for 30 hours (i.e. a day), especially if we were out at work when it came. Sometimes we have a few parcels and don’t immediately open them when busy.

Your neighbour may also have been thinking “I must get around to dropping off that parcel” but slightly lost track of time.

I don’t think you can assume it’s rude - I would let it go.

We both work full time and have busy kids. Redelivering your parcel would not be a priority! We would get to it eventually. A day and a half is nothing in my world.

30 hours isn't much... if they do shift work they may have virtually no time to themselves for a few days or more at a time. Or small children. Or any number of other things going on

You don't know what is going on in their lives. Some days I don't even open my own parcels for a couple of days. If your parcel ends up at my house, I'll take it down as soon as I get around to it, usually within a couple of days. If there's a phone number for the recipient, I'll probably text you to let you know where it is. Then you can come get it if you want. It's not my fault your parcel came to me. Just hope I'm wearing my glasses as I've been knowing to open parcels, thinking it's one I'm expecting, then found it belongs to someone else in the household.

Your neighbour didn't know that though. They were probably assuming you'd have had a card through the door and wondering why it took you 30 hours to get round to collecting it!

I've had similar situations but been so busy it's taken me 5 days to drop the post to the right house. It's not priority 1 and I would just keep forgetting.

People are not factoring your misdelivered parcel into their packed lives! You're lucky you got the parcel. Seems an odd thing to treat it as the neighbour being intentionally rude.