Random stuff in the pick up locker

[RobinEllacotStrike]

I've recently started buying on Vinted and getting items delivered to a collection locker not far from my house.

On the weekend I went to collect a package and there was a random item of clothing in the locker with my parcel - a pair of jeans. Not wrapped, or addressed or anything - just a pair of jeans in the locker.

I took the jeans out of the locker and took them home with me - I've been wondering ever since why I did this and where I've landed is I felt like it would be littering if I left them there. If we all left random items in lockers its going to get very confusing very quickly. I now think I should have left them there but then what would have happened to them? I can't return them now - I can't recall what locker it was.

Is this very common to find other random items in your collection locker? What do you do in this scenario?

You contact the seller and say they have sent the wrong item?

They didn’t. I don’t think you read properly.

OP I don’t think there’s any way of returning these to where they should have gone, pop them to a charity shop. The buyer/seller who sent those jeans will get refunded as their parcel has been lost.

OK I've re-read your post, thank you for the prompt and still want to ask why you don't contact the seller of the item you were expecting to collect but instead found a pair of unwrapped jeans? I don't mean to be dense.

Your responses are baffling me. OP said “in the locker with my parcel - a pair of jeans.”

So somebody locally has put those jeans in - either a different parcel that was torn and the collector didn’t realise and left them behind, or some other story.

What would the seller of OP’s parcel, which arrived sealed and happened to be placed in the same locker where somebody else left a pair of jeans, have to do with this?

You retrieved your parcel and then took the jeans home? I wouldn't have taken the jeans home in case someone else was supposed to collect them and there was some kind of mess up with codes/locker numbers.

Yes I got my parcel.

AND a pair of unwrapped jeans - just a pair of mens jeans on their own. I don't think they are associated with my seller at all - or maybe they are? Who knows.

If it happened again I will just leave the item.

In this case I just took them and then wondered why one earth I did that? The jeasn are cheap - £21 new on Amazon & these are clearly 2nd hand.

Well yean of course you should have left them there!

"What would have happened to them?"
Who knows but as its nothing to do with you, why would you care?
They would have had more of a chance in getting back to the right person (if they wanted them!) had you left them there than they do now!

Wittering on about it being "littering"
and "if we all left random items in lockers its
going to get very confusing very quick?" doesnt negate the fact that you knew they weren't your jeans and you took them anyway = you stole them.

Surely you made it more confusing for anyone trying to find them, not less!

If it happens again I will leave the item.

But do you really think someone is coming to collect an unwrapped unidentifiable pair of jeans - no name, no codes, no numbers? Its just so strange to find a random item like this in there isn't it?

Are you saying someone could have a code to collect jeans from the same locker as another parcel? I thought the whole point of these lockers is they were private & secure? This doenst seem to be the case

Is it possible for someone to use the lockers even if they don't have a parcel? So someone left their jeans round someone's house and the person put them in there to be collected? I don't know how the codes etc work for those things.

I would assume they were waiting to be collected by someone? Or someone got a pair of new jeans delivered, hated their old ones so stripped them off and changed as soon as they got new ones? And left old jeans in locker as CBA to find a bin?

Weird. But also a bit weird you took them home.

I'm not sure to be honest on any of those points. But taking them home means there is no way of getting them to where they were supposed to be going to.

Put the info on a local Facebook group or two and hopefully the owner will come forward. I expect it was someone who didn’t realise parcels had to be wrapped even if you are using the QR code for label less drop off.

I don't think I would have picked up a random item of used, unwashed clothing and brought it into my house. I salute your bravery!

Amazon I think can collect from those and they do allow you to send back without any documentation for some things. Maybe they were worn, defective and being returned?

id post in the local facebook group to see if you can return them to the sender.

They were probably put there as a return, but the sender thought they were being clever by not packaging them up. So they weren’t collected by the delivery men as it’s not wrapped 🤷🏼‍♀️

Someone collected their parcel of new trousers/jeans and stood there and changed into them, leaving their old ones in the locker….? I feel I need to know why those jeans were in there now! 😂

Agree it was weird I took them home.
I don't know what I was thinking doing that.

I won't use this delivery system anymore - it doesn't seem very secure.

Funny!!

Imagine this is some kind of returns scenario gone wrong, the question still remains why different people are sharing the same "secure" locker.

Ewwwww

Contact the operator of the locker and let them know.

It’s just an error, when you send things it asks what size locker and then opens a door. I believe there is a button to tell it something is in there, which then closes the door and opens another. For whatever reason the item hasn’t been collected or registered in the system properly.

Odd for someone to just leave a pair of jeans in the locker, but much weirder to take them home with you! Why would you do that?! 😂

OK, so I'm guessing that the person who previously and legitimately used this locker to pick up their package shoved a pair of (presumably) used jeans in it at the same time. Nothing registered on any system because they weren't packaged, labelled or a "return" to anywhere. It was just a pair of their personal old jeans. Why they would do this and what they wore to the store is another question but, whilst grim, it could have been something even more revolting that they shoved in there.

Yep I bet this is what's happened.

I wish I knew!!
🤣

It’s really tickled me 😁😁😁😁