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Stupidest place a courier has left your parcel?

163 replies

Mavericksaviators · 20/01/2023 15:32

I had a delivery today of barking heads puppy food, order was £50. Not money I can afford to loose ( like everyone else) I never heard them knock, I got an email to say it was delivered it to a ‘safe space’ I went outside, where was this safe space do you ask? On the pavement outside my house in full view of everyone walking past! ( my house has steps going up to the house, they’d obviously just dumped it there) Luckily only been out 5 minutes and hadn’t been stolen. Where have the genius’s left your parcels??

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Spanielsarepainless · 20/01/2023 16:25

Two pairs of Hotter shoes lobbed over the side gate we had never used, in the rain, before alerts were a thing. Not sure how he fought his way past the overgrown vegetation, even now.

AnonSource · 20/01/2023 16:25

My local Evri driver opened my door and threw the parcel inside before I could even acknowledge the bell ringing, made a change from him throwing it over the gate.

Amazon once left a parcel in my recycling bin, but left no note and the app didnt notify me that it had been delivered. I found out through the seller two days after bin collection 🤦‍♀️

Tarkan · 20/01/2023 16:26

Amazon once dropped a delivery which was obviously a book of some sort into our empty wheely bin right into all the gross bin stuff right at the bottom. I had to tip the bin right over to even reach it. Angry

Molehillfromamountain · 20/01/2023 16:31

At the local scrapyard because he couldn't find us. He'd called in to ask directions and the owner knew where we lived so he asked her to drop it off to us on her way home 🤦 she did and I was very grateful.

ReformedWaywardTeen · 20/01/2023 16:38

*wheelie bin (amazon)
*Neighbours house 6 doors up on the wrong side of the street (also Amazon)
*Totally different house nowhere near my house, no idea what area but not my village and disinterested response from delivery company (Royal Mail who even confidently sent me a delivery photo as if to suggest I was too dense to see it was delivered to me. Except it wasn't my house, and it was supposed to be signed for and wasn't)
*Given to a random who was getting in a car two doors down who didn't even live on my street and was just using our street for parking (also Royal Mail, never got that back)
*Hidden under doormat (Evri, was a replacements car exhaust, far too big to go under a doormat so presumably stolen)
*Partially out through the corner of letterbox, photographed and then pulled back through (Evri, this week, who clearly didn't think I was in, luckily I was and he nearly shit himself when I opened the door and told him I knew what he was up to, and he'd have been disappointed in a vintage pink vest my DD had bought).

Eastereggsboxedupready · 20/01/2023 16:38

Buggy worth £300 thrown over an 8 foot wall. Sent it straight back. Again I was home. Didn't even knock.

SirSidneyRuffDiamond · 20/01/2023 16:39

For one parcel, that we never found, I was emailed a photo of its delivery location. This was of a tree branch viewed through swirling night fog, with the moon illuminating it in an eerie way. So I would say my parcel was left on the set of a 1970s Hammer House of Horror film.

SirSidneyRuffDiamond · 20/01/2023 16:40

Ohh and another parcel meant for delivery in Norfolk was left at an address in Belgium.

Lakeyloo · 20/01/2023 16:40

My very distinctive craft gin club box (when they briefly moved away from Royal Mail to another courier), on the pavement outside the front door from lunchtime until I got home at 18:30. Might as well have put a big sign there too saying "free alcohol" Very surprised it was still there ..... obviously underestimated the neighbourhood !

OrangePomander · 20/01/2023 16:41

Thrown over the locked gate to a disused alleyway in the vague vicinity of our house, hidden in a jungle of weeds. We found it eventually after a week of continual rain, and had to use ladders to reach the soggy remains of the cardboard box.

JennyJone · 20/01/2023 16:42

TallulahBetty · 20/01/2023 15:39

"Left with your receptionist" along with a picture of it being dumped on the doormat. The tip of my cat's tail was a visible in the corner of the pic - perhaps they thought this was the receptionist? (Actually they'd be right - he is in charge)

Brilliant

user982548025 · 20/01/2023 16:43

case of champagne was once left on the roadside about 400m from my house

IncompleteSenten · 20/01/2023 16:46

Can we do stupidest person too?

If so - outside someone else's house.

Not in itself the most stupid thing but they then proceeded to argue with me that it was my house.

Argued that the sat nav confirmed it.

Sent me a photo of what they were still insisting was my house.

Lovely green door. Beautiful shade of green. A nice sage. Gorgeous old style door too.

My door is white.

I sent them photos of my front door. My front garden. My path.

They still tried to argue about it. 🤦

I ended up going on Google maps, getting a screenshot, circling the house they'd left the parcel and my house.

My house is right behind the other but on a different street! The road the house they'd left it with doesn't even share my street name! I still have no idea how the hell they ended up leaving it there.

It was bonkers. On the phone arguing with someone who basically insisted I didn't know where I live.

OldTinHat · 20/01/2023 16:47

In the same named road in another town with a different postcode.

Happens so often now, and the other way round, that we've swapped phone numbers.

VinylCafe · 20/01/2023 16:49

Two very heavy boxes of dog food left on our front step right in front of our storm door that opens outwards. We had to go out the back door and around to the front to shift them. They could have placed them beside the front step out of the way of the door.

Another bizarre place is at the house on another street! The house numbers are the same and the name of the street is the same as ours but with a 'west' in front of it (think West Main instead of Main). The nice lady who lives there has caught a few drivers leaving our packages on her step. She sometimes has quite a time trying to convince them they have the wrong street!

VinylCafe · 20/01/2023 16:52

Oh! Another place was on our deck in the back. It's always windy here and I was puzzled why there was a white Amazon envelope blowing about on our deck only to discover it was an actual delivery!

Lilibert456 · 20/01/2023 16:55

Thrown onto the grass verge, 20 yards from the house in the pouring rain. Neighbour rescued it when she was walking her dogs.

countrygirl99 · 20/01/2023 16:57

Treehouse at the bottom of the garden in the middle of winter. No card left. Only found out where it was when I chased the supplier.

yahpahha · 20/01/2023 16:58

Just want to say I get asked at least 4 times a day to leave things in bins. If I had a £1 for every time I've knocked AND rang a bell at a house only for no one to answer and then appear at the door after I've been to neighbour/safe place, I would be rich.

Survey99 · 20/01/2023 16:58

I was leaving my house just before Christmas, opened the front door to find a small box containing an item worth £1,200, delivered/left on my doorstep for all to see, easy to pick up and just walk off. Checked email and it had been delivered 2 hours earlier.

We regularly get pictures posted on our estates fb page asking if anyone recognises this door/slippers/wheelie bin contents etc.

TheNoodlesIncident · 20/01/2023 16:58

Once left next door put through their annexe's letterbox. They had moved out but fortunately it was spotted and returned to us.
Also plenty in the wheelie bins; the garden waste one was popular but the recycling provided exciting challenges, as the packaging of the newly delivered blended beautifully with the packaging already in it for recycling.

We've also had items abandoned to their fate on the front doorstep. We have that arrangement like a porch over the front door, where there are two side walls that support pillars and the porch roof? Often the parcel is left on the side wall, mostly just under the blue and white sticker that says "if no answer please put in the parcel box".

The parcel box is fantastic. Tucked snugly between the wheelie bins, it keeps parcels dry and out of sight from the road. Sometimes couriers use it if we're not in when they deliver, some prefer to assume we're kidding and want the thrill of seeing if it gets nicked or not...

2bazookas · 20/01/2023 17:01

This week, evri left my delivery on the floor in the pongy communal rubbish bin shelter, which is not locked or secure, and its most definitely NOT a safe alternative delivery place suggested or permitted by me.

Because of heavy snow I've been at home ; nobody came to the door; nor did Evri put a card through the letterbox to say " We came, no answer, we left your parcel in the bin shelter".

I don't know how long it had been there , a neighbour found it by chance.

I've informed the company I ordered from, that using Evri to deliver, means they'll get no more business from me.

BiologicalWoman · 20/01/2023 17:02

In a neighbour's bush across the road and 4 houses down...no fucking idea why.

AragornsGirl · 20/01/2023 17:02

Rather than knock on the door and hand it to my husband who was in (which is what the tracking said had been done) the parcel was thrown over the fence of a house across the road…

eatdrinkandbemerry · 20/01/2023 17:06

Under a hedge at the bottom of my garden!
No note left so it was sat there for three weeks in torrential rain . I only knew because I reported it missing to the company I purchased from and they sent me a photo!