Does anyone get this with deliveries and take aways?

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I'm going to make the name of the streets up but say I live on High Road, and there's an High drive not too far away..

Everytime I get a delivery they leave it at high drive, same number as mine but obviously different street.. I'm constantly having to go to High Road for my parcels/post. A lot of the time when I go for my parcels at their house I then have stuff to give them that has been delivered to mine.

Didn't really think too much of it and thought it would all sort itself out but it's getting worse.

Ordered a pizza the other night, got notification saying on the way, then nothing for hours, rang them to be told it was delivered hours ago, i then had to explain I didn't get it, they didn't believe me at first but then went to check and it had been delivered to High drive, then waited a further hour for them to deliver food to me not them.

Also ordering taxis is a nightmare as I get texts saying they have arrived then go outside to see nobody there, they then call me saying they are here when they are parked outside High drive.

never had this issue before, and only been living here 6 months. Is this just my life now?!?

Have you got the wrong postcode?
You can check it online.

how odd.
do you always give your postcode?

I think id start putting 'High ROAD not High Drive' in the delivery notes?

Include your home's What Three Words in your address/delivery details.

Oh we have similar High Road and High Grove, one runs off the other. We're always getting random deliveries and vice versa.

Why would the other house have accepted your pizza delivery? Parcels I can understand because they often just get left, but taking in someone else’s food delivery is odd

I got to know the people one street over that had the same
house number as me in our new build. Completely different street name, but same number and the houses lined up exactly. We got packages and mail for one another constantly the first couple of years.

This happens to me regularly with takeaway deliveries. My street name is similar to a main road near by. I think they see the start of the street name and just assume it's the main road which has lots of flats on it. Thankfully they always call asking for the flat number (I live in a house) so I have an opportunity to tell them they are in the wrong place. I don't order takeout that often but it probably happens 3-4 times a year. It's really annoying.

I live in a series of three small parallel streets. If we were in a town, we might be called mewses. We share the beginning of the postcode ie: AB1 2xx. The xx bit is different for every house. Say the streets are called Alpha, Bravo and Charlie. They were all built at different times and all look different.

I live at 22 Charlie.
I'd say about 10% of my deliveries go to 22 Bravo, and a bit less to 22 Alpha.

We get similar amount of deliveries for them. Could have had Braco's Asda delivery last week!

Yep - we live on a long road one end is eg. home lane north, the other home lane south. Different postcodes so should be easy. I've had tradespeople go to the wrong house, parcels etc and memorably a Nintendo Switch I ordered for DS!

We have this ALL the time as we live on a cul-de-sac called (for example) Angel Close that leads directly off of Angel Drive. Different postcodes and everything but it doesn’t seem to matter.

It’s exhausting and taxi drivers are the absolute worst for this, so much so that we no longer use taxis at all. Many, many times I have called in frustration at them being ridiculously late, only to get a telling off from the taxi dispatcher for missing the taxi, when I’ve been stood outside and waiting since well before the time only to find that they had gone to Angel Drive, marked me down as a no show and driven away to another call!!
Luckily the house on the other street with the same number as us is now occupied by a couple that I went to school with which makes it easier to exchange wrongly delivered parcels but it’s still frustrating.

Yep. We used to rent a house in X Close and our deliveries and takeaways often went to X Road or Y Parallel Close.

”I’m outside your house.”

”No, you’re not.”

Drove us absolutely crazy. It was a lovely road otherwise!

OP ask the restaurant to call when they're outside your house. When you get product deliveries you can usually leave a note for the delivery person, just explain in the note where you are and the colour of your door.

Yep, sat nav updated and takes everyone to the back of the address so I keep finding confused delivery drivers looking in the window

I now put in the delivery "off X road NOT Y road" which seems to help a bit

Yes we have it

I live at

8 smith Street ( obviously not the street name )

after my house is a small space and a ginnel .

then the numbers start again on ‘higher smith street’

normally delivery drivers are quite good when I point it out, over the 20 years we have been here we have only had a few massive problems over it - most notably a takeaway delivery driver that didn’t really speak English, who shouted quite a lot at me for money , that shook me a bit , and once my kids had taken a small parcel in and not told anyone , and the people from the other house got quite cross and accused me of stealing it. Luckily they rented and moved out a year later.

just one of those things, I would suggest making friends with your neighbours to make like easier !

Yep my road is split into 2 with a different road in the middle. Think Alpha Road for 10 houses, then Bravo Street for 20 houses, then Alpha Road for the rest of the road. I have no idea why it's like this but used to get lots of deliveries going to Bravo Street cos the drivers don't notice the name change.
It's better with things like Uber Eats and Deliveroo where it shows your actual location.

Yep - get this all the time - we live on (names changed) Dedman Close & 2 streets away is Redman Close, and the postcodes end 1AB & 1AP so we’re constantly getting each other’s parcels. Have actually become quite friendly with the people at the same number on the other close because we have to pop round to each other so often to pick up parcels!

Oh god I had this! I lived in one of just six houses randomly built on a back street that had nothing else there. The amount of times I'd put UNITY CLOSE NOT GROVE in the delivery notes only to find they'd tried to deliver to Unity Grove!

Another one that gets parcels, taxis and deliveroo etc to the lane behind. We have a completely different road name and a different postcode - the lane behind is even a private road! The problem is, if you look up our address: road and postcode Google maps shows the road behind. So satnavs etc regularly show the wrong location.

Yes we have the same problem. Avenue and drive getting mixed up, so annoying.

Not quite the same, but my street is a little spur off a longer, curved street. Totally different name, but sometimes drivers don't realise it's a different street and come down our bit instead of continuing on the main road. Then they knock on my 6 Tango Court instead of 6 Sierra Crescent.

Haven't had takeaways getting it wrong for a while, but had someone try to deliver a washing machine once - they'd already unloaded it off the lorry and weren't super happy when I denied all knowledge! And on several occasions had parents come round to collect kids who had gone to play there after school - I realised after the first time and could redirect them, but what that poor first dad must have thought when I said "no, there's no Jamie here!"

What three words on the delivery note will stop this

All the people saying to add details on the delivery note - not everyone sees or reads these.

I used to get this at my old house.

Let's say it was Rose Court, which turned in Rose Gardens further down the road. I lived in Rose Gardens, but quite often got attempted deliveries for the same number at Rose Court. Memorably, one was a sofa at 7:30 on a Saturday morning!

Amazon are the worst! We live at 5 Henry Close and they throw all of the deliveries over the fence in to our front garden for 5 Henry Road even in the pouring rain. Then we have to peel them off the wet grass and take them round apologetically dripping wet.