What do you think has happened to my parcel?

[moonshinepoursthroughmywindow]

I have been waiting for a small parcel (which would probably have fitted through the letter box).

I've had an e-mail saying it was delivered at about 4.30 yesterday afternoon. Unfortunately I didn't see the e-mail until this afternoon. I don't get many e-mails to that address and just didn't think of looking.

I was in at 4.30 yesterday, and so was at least one other member of the family. One of us would have heard either a knock on the door or something coming through the door. Therefore I knew that if it was delivered here at all, it was left somewhere outside. It's not in the carport, the most obvious place to put it if you were going to dump and run. DH suggested they might have put it in one of the recycle bins - which unfortunately have since been topped up, then put out overnight and emptied early this morning by the bin men. However, there's been no history of delivery people putting parcels in those bins and they certainly didn't leave any note to say they'd done that.

We then thought of asking our immediate neighbours in case it had been delivered to one of their houses by mistake. The man on one side said they hadn't seen it, although they had a delivery of their own during the day. He checked with his wife and she hadn't seen anything either. It then occurred to him that he had a Ring doorbell (I never knew much about how they worked before) and he went through all the footage and there doesn't seem to have been a delivery van opposite our houses anywhere near the time they said! I did then go to check with the neighbours on the other side too but they weren't in. That's not unusual and I will probably try again tomorrow.

But what else could have happened that I haven't thought of? I'd be beginning to wonder if someone had stolen it out of the carport except the neighbour's detective work is making me wonder if it was ever really delivered at all. For what it's worth, the e-mail was from Etsy, not the delivery company. Do they have a history of getting it wrong? There is no photo of where it was supposedly delivered.

The item isn't valuable or urgently needed, I'm more puzzled than anything.

Was it Evri? Our Evri driver marks as delivered (I assume to get paid) on the day it is due, then we have to wait till they have other deliveries to our road/area to actually get it.

Thank you - yes it is! I haven't had that happen before with Evri, but your explanation makes sense and I'm going to leave it a couple of days before trying to contact anyone else.

Uuurrgh. Evri! Might have guessed.

You should have a tracking number you can enter on their website and you will see a photo of where its been delivered.

Good luck!

On the Evri website will be a random photo of a random parcel (clearly not your small pack of sewing notions, some box of stuff) having been left on a doorstep where the red door is not yours, and nobody in your road has a red door.....

Have a look in your orders on Etsy - there will often be a tracking link there.

Sidenote: I don’t understand people who have to actively check different emails, I just have them all come to the same app on my phone.