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Where is the strangest place a delivery person has left your delivery?

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OneUmberJoker · 20/11/2025 22:05

In one of the bins.

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SodthatImoff · 22/11/2025 15:41

Parcel related but collection. Large parcel to be collected by Evri on a Tuesday. Changed the day from Tuesday to Friday as I wasn't going to be in. Monday they knocked to collect. Person who was in saw them but wasn't able to get to the door in time (just out of shower).
Tuesday, due to work being moved around, I was in after all-Evri knocked (meant to be here on the Friday if you're still following and not keeled over from boredom by now!). I asked him if he had knocked yesterday he said Yeah but no one was in. I said you do know that you were expected this Friday coming? He said I don't know no one tells me anything!
The good thing was it freed up Friday for me. They were meant to text me a time window as well but never received any texts at all!!

mondaytosunday · 22/11/2025 16:30

It’s not strange but stupid to put a delivery in the bin. That’s where they put my DD’s prom dress and as it was being delivered to a friends address (we were staying in an Airbnb) she just kept saying it hadn’t arrived. She could easily have tossed in a rubbish bag without checking.

CatAsstrophe · 22/11/2025 16:36

The previous Evri courier (when it was Hermes) threw a parcel over the wall, into the back garden. The parcel landed in the fish pond. I was not impressed.

The new Evri courier never knocks the door, or rings the bell. He just leaves the parcels outside the front door despite me asking him several times not to.

whostheshithead · 23/11/2025 23:49

This is a funny one! Dd once ordered an uber to our street name ... without the door number .. the uber driver one-upped her and left her order in the park under a tree on the corner of our street 😂😂ً the next day my dd2 and I investigated the photo of where he'd left it and she went and had a look under the tree.
The milkshakes were still there but someone had nicked the burgers 🤣

sodabreadjam · 24/11/2025 00:13

Quite a few.

Behind a large plant pot at the side of the house. They left a card in our mailbox to say it had been left in an outhouse. The package itself was tiny and could have fitted in our mailbox.

In a mini greenhouse in a far corner of the garden in winter. No note to say it had been left there. (T-shirts for DH)

In a neighbour's garage. (Shoes for me).

Propped against neighbour's French doors. (Aftershave for DS)

Glass TV table delivered 3 doors up. Card through the door saying it had been left at a house number that didn't exist and with a person we have never heard of - and we were at home when they left it.

Three bales of woodchips delivered about 8 doors away. We saw them do it and ran out to tell them. We had roadworks going on outside our house and I don't think they could be bothered with the hassle.

We are retired and at home a lot to answer the door.. We have a nine inch high house number on our mailbox which is easily seen from the street but we still have stuff delivered all over the place.

sodabreadjam · 24/11/2025 00:15

Quite a few.

Behind a large plant pot at the side of the house. They left a card in our mailbox to say it had been left in an outhouse. The package itself was tiny and could have fitted in our mailbox.

In a mini greenhouse in a far corner of the garden in winter. No note to say it had been left there. (T-shirts for DH)

In a neighbour's garage. (Shoes for me).

Propped against neighbour's French doors. (Aftershave for DS)

Glass TV table delivered 3 doors up. Card through the door saying it had been left at a house number that didn't exist and with a person we have never heard of - and we were at home when they left it.

Three bales of woodchips delivered about 8 doors away. We saw them do it and ran out to tell them. We had roadworks going on outside our house and I don't think they could be bothered with the hassle.

We are retired and at home a lot to answer the door.. We have a nine inch high house number on our mailbox which is easily seen from the street but we still have stuff delivered all over the place.

Hollyhobbi · 25/11/2025 01:02

OneUmberJoker · 20/11/2025 22:05

In one of the bins.

Our A Post delivery guy always leaves the parcels in our green waste bin!

FrangipaniBlue · 25/11/2025 07:03

justbecauseyoucandoesntmeanyoushouldx · 22/11/2025 09:19

Someone did that to my neighbours once - they'd scheduled delivery for the following day when they'd be in but it came early... cue a very panicked call from them asking if we were home to go and get it. Luckily DH was home.

Mine is on the doorstep of someone else's house 🙄

Same with mine - it had actually arrived a day early hence I wasn’t home - when I got the email
complete with photo I rang my FIL (lives round the corner) who very kindly went and retrieved it for me !

Dearg · 25/11/2025 07:18

In the garage, complete with a photo of a very neat and ordered garage with a very smart car in it. None of it was mine , nor a near neighbour.

Never did find it, and had a hard time proving thst they’d sent it to the wrong address.
I think it was Parcelpost, so their tracking was poor at the best of times.

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