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Stupidest place a courier has left your parcel?

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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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GossipIsMarmite · 20/01/2023 17:06

I had a delivery of a large box with glass items in with ‘fragile’ and various other warning of fragile items written on it left balancing on the middle of my very narrow concrete outside steps. They didn’t even attempt to knock the door. I don’t know how it didn’t fall down the steps. It was only when I had gone passed my delivery slot and checked my email that I saw the photo of the idiotic place they had put it.

Itsvalentino · 20/01/2023 17:07

I’ve waited 6 months for my Lakeland heated airer, finally arrived yesterday and I asked the driver to hide it behind the 3 wheelie bins, instead he props it up the garage and ‘hides’ it behind a broom 😂

Stupidest place a courier has left your parcel?
Oakbeam · 20/01/2023 17:11

Inside a wendy house at some seemingly random address in the same village. Not mine, obviously.

Luckily, there was a picture of the wendy house. It still took a day to find it.

OneFrenchEgg · 20/01/2023 17:14

The most scary place was right in front of the French doors in the back garden meaning they had come through two wooden tall gates, down the side return, into the back garden and round the side of the extension. If I'd seen a stranger in the garden I'd have been terrified.

kickupafuss · 20/01/2023 17:16

Our parcels are regularly left in the road, in a random place in the garden and thrown over the wall. I am becoming an expert at identifying small details of our neighbours' door mats to try to work out from the photo where our parcel has been delivered. I'm always amazed when a parcel is actually brought to our door.

Aloezebra · 20/01/2023 17:18

In a wood store in the neighbours gated back garden.. without a note! Took a while for the bemused neighbour to bring it round

Millionaireshortbread0 · 20/01/2023 17:19

Once came back from holiday and on my front path a box of medial equipment had been left (value to the nhs of over £500) for 6 days in drizzly spring weather. It had been delivered a week earlier than scheduled as well. Luckily all was still usable. This was with parcel force.

Deathbyfluffy · 20/01/2023 17:20

I've had a few over the years - my favourite was UK Mail delivering a brand new iPhone and yup, you guessed it - they left it in the bin.

Not just any bin... the bin that was clearly left at the edge of the pavement for collection! Needless to say I got home and there was no phone.
I couldn't quite believe it, but luckily we had CCTV so could evidence that it'd happened (there was no courier photo etc).

Apple did put up a bit of a 'computer says it was delivered' fight until I got someone to look at the footage - I bet someone at UK Mail got a ticking off that day...

Absolutely dire company, thankfully Apple now use the (slightly better) DPD.

reluctantbrit · 20/01/2023 17:21

Bins
neighbour's porch 3 houses down but didn't leave a card with us, neighbour was on holiday. I already had a replacement when he turned up at our house.
Thrown over the garden gate onto the stone pave patio - a ceramic lasagne dish. DH called the company he bought it from and sent a picture of the broken dish, they not only replaced it immediately but also send it with a different courier.

Sweetnsourtoday · 20/01/2023 17:24

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)

That's so funny.
My safe place is bang in front of my door in full view, apparently.

I've had some inventive ones. Underneath some random planks of wood (must have spent ages foraging for material and then lining it up for coverage). I've had an old bin upside down over the parcel, as though the parcel is a spider and the bin a glass.

One went to a neighbor three doors down (into their unlocked outhouse) and neither of us knew about it. All fun and games.

DaisyStarburst · 20/01/2023 17:26

Under the car, no card, we were in, no knock on the door or ring doorbell, fortunately we didn't run it over.

elevenplusdilemma · 20/01/2023 17:28

Our DPD courier has a habit of leaving parcels right in front of the cat flap so DCats can neither get in nor out once he's been.

Blackbirdblue30 · 20/01/2023 17:30

Outside a building that had a similar address but was on the opposite side of the city, lied and said I'd signed for it too.
Noise was made.

MargaretThursday · 20/01/2023 17:33

Slipped under the gate that leads to the back garden. Actually it sounds okay, but we only really use that gate when taking the lawnmower from the back to the front and it was winter.
I don't know how long it was there before I found it, but luckily it wasn't damaged by rain or snow.

RaininSummer · 20/01/2023 17:40

In the middle of a ten foot conifer in a muddy, high and dark front garden was a good one and also under a neighbours hedge without telling either of us. That one was found 6 months later after I had a refund.

pompomdaisy · 20/01/2023 17:44

Can't remember which company but they left a gift box full of Thornton chocolate on the door step in 40 degree heat.

HiccupHorrendousHaddock · 20/01/2023 17:44

Timeforachangeisitnot · 20/01/2023 15:40

At the derelict, empty house up the street - Parcel Force.

Outside in pouring rain.

No explanation was forthcoming but when I queried where it was, they sent me a photo of said derelict house , showing the number , which was clearly not mine. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Snap, but it was Yodel!

£48 of pet food ruined.

MrsWidgerysLodger · 20/01/2023 17:53

In our water butt! Not sure if they thought it was a bin but it was a Kindle so bloody ruined.

donttalkaboutbookclub · 20/01/2023 17:54

The shop over the road. The shop doesn't take parcels, but fortunately for me did on this occasion!

TheIsaacs · 20/01/2023 17:57

Books, chucked over the garden gate and straight into the pond.

LittleGreenDuck · 20/01/2023 17:59

Under the car, right in front of the rear wheels. You can guess how that turned out.

IbizaToTheNorfolkBroads · 20/01/2023 18:02

About half a mile away

CatNutsRoastingByAnOpenFire · 20/01/2023 18:03

In the cafe round the corner, about 5 minutes away with no indication that it was there. If I hadn't looked up the name on the online signature and searched it, I would never have received an expensive pair of boots and someone would have had a nice gift.
DPD, always crap.

Hillrunning · 20/01/2023 18:08

Ot mine, but when I worked at a chocolate company years ago a customer called in stating that the expensive Easter egg had been left not on or under but in the rabbit hutch. The rabbit ate through the packaging and died. So that Easter a poor child lost his rabbit and had no Easter egg.

downnew · 20/01/2023 18:11

In the shed, which wouldn't have been an issue if they'd have actually told us they'd left it there. We finally discovered it several months later- the outside packaging had been eaten by slugs but the actual items inside were fine. We'd had a replacement sent in the mean time!