Postman going straight to neighbour!

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I’ve had this issue for a while and not really sure how to deal with it. I live on a small terrace in the centre of my town so we always have the same postman. I signed up for the ‘please take back to sorting office’ sticker from Royal Mail and have a large sign in my window stating ‘do not leave parcels with neighbours’.

I ordered something very expensive and fragile over Christmas and returned home from visiting family to find the slip through the door saying it had been left with my neighbour. They have a large dog who could potentially damage my things and don’t really trust them as we don’t get on. I knocked on and she told me that he always just takes my stuff to their house as my curtains are never open so he thinks I’m asleep I work from home and don’t want the whole town seeing me in my dressing gown as we get a lot of foot traffic past the windows. Is that even legal, to deliver to a neighbour without even knocking on the recipients door? Other delivery drivers do it too so almost every package I’ve had delivered this past year has been delivered to my NDN instead. So frustrating and not sure how to approach the complaint! I’ve paid a lot of money for things to be delivered to my home not to go and collect from a neighbour who I have disputes with

Don’t work in your dressing gown?

Couldn't you get dressed and then you could work in natural light?

I shouldn’t have to have my curtains open for a package to be delivered surely? Especially in winter at 9am? My heating doesn’t work at the minute also so it helps keep the heat in.

Yeah you shouldn't have to. My blinds are down as my window is virtually on the pavement and my postman still delivers!

The curtain issue is irrelevant anyway as I have 2 clear pieces of signage that state for them not to be left with a neighbour that are regularly ignored. They never knock on my door I feel they are just being lazy as my neighbour often has parcels daily so they will give them mine as well instead of having to walk through my gate and garden. If I wanted to be berated for not opening my curtains in winter I’d have posted in AIBU. I give up with this site!

Ask your neighbours to not accept delivery.

I would tell him I will be putting an official
Complaint in. Alternatively, watch out for him, when he goes up the path to the neighbours house open the door and tell him to give you your parcel but make him walk round. Do it every single time.

I think I’d order something with the express intention of laying in wait for him. He’s being a lazy sod and I get why it’s so irritating.

Also, I work from home in my pjs and dressing gown, I’m not getting dressed because I might need to intercept a postman! The first two responses are ridiculous.

Telephone the local post office. They will either deal with it themselves or give you the contact details of the post office/postal depot you need to speak to. Make the complaint. Tell them that your postperson is not attempting delivery even though you are in as it is easier to deliver next door. They will speak to them.

We had to make complaints about our postman who was mixing up important letters and we had to go and swap mail with the neighbours (on a street of clearly numbered semi detached houses!) He also dropped some mail but carried on his route. FIL had to pick it up from the middle of the road and run after him and the postman grumbled at him and said he was "going to get it when he came back round!"

Oh and make sure your doorbell works. The postie could claim you're not answering.