to think no I do not want my parcels to be delivered to a neighbour if I am out and

[threesocksmorgan]

I don't want to take theirs in either.
I only speak to my next door neighbours, other than that I either don't know the others or they are not nice.
so why would I (SAHM so I will be lumbered) want to play post offices for them

I get all mine delivered to work. I hate imposing on my neighbours like that. I will happily take stuff in for them, but it doesnt happen very often and they are all luvverly anyway :)

I'm quite happy to take in parcels for my neighbours. I don't expect friendship in return.

I'll be bloody pleased that Royal Mail start doing this, it's a PITA having to rearrange delivery as I don't drive and the delivery office is a bus ride away and only open for about 3 hours every morning. I had a 'While you were out' card on Saturday, I won't get my parcel now until Wednesday!

If the postie knocks the door can you just refuse to take it? Because I will be doing that. one of my neighbours is one from hell and the other bless her is elderly, deaf, and partially sighted and freaks if anyone including me knocks her door.

I can se a lot if chaos at Xmas......

the thing is imo, if you are in you will get the postie ringing your doorbell about someone else's parcel!
so you still have to go and anser the door even if you don't accept the parcel,
that can be annoying if you are in the midl eof something like toileting a disabled child

SoupDragon not everyone has a child that can be sent round

Agree threesocks it drives me round the twist if anyone knocks my door in the morning at the best of times. So sticker it is then.

So just opt out

Pretty straight forward really.

Perhaps a nice little sign that says "sorry, I am unable to take parcels in for other addresses"

I know you can opt out but who wants a sticker on their door advertising the fact that they are mean and miserable for all the world to see?

So you think it is mean and miserable to opt out then?

Blimey - what a fuss about nowt.

1. Put a polite sign on door to say you can't take parcels.

2. You are under no obligation to answer the door if you are either on the loo or taking a child to the loo.

3. Look on Royal Mail website for opt out instructions.

4. Relax and have a cup of tea (or other prefered beverage)
   

I take in parcels occasionally - I will grateful if people take some in for me occasionally - no biggie. If they don't, I simply rearrange delivery for a convienient day.

Oprt Out Form

I have done this. My neighbours have stolen from me in the past and we regularly have post and parcels go missing, so there was really no option.

It's okay if you have nice neighbours, but when you are already having to put up with bad ones it's not great to be made to feel like shit because you don't want them having access to things they can't be trusted with. Or that you don't want to be put on the spot by not taking things in for them. You can tell the postie that you don't want to take an item for them and feel uncomfortable about it, not because you know YABU, but because you are too polite to give the full explanation 'I would rather not take it because that will mean I have to come face to face with the drunk idiot who regularly makes my life a misery!'

Would I be unreasonable to get a sticker printed up with that on it I wonder

Opt out, even

YANBU but I don't see the big deal myself.

Don't answer the door then if you are in the middle of something and not expecting anyone? I regularly ignore the phone or the door if it's during the day as most of the time the phone is telemarketers and the door charity canvassers, if it's someone I know they will either leave a message or come and peer in the living room window next to the door so I can see it's them. You don't have to answer the door if you are attending to your child's needs.

OP, I don't see what the problem is. Just opt out. And as for postie constantly ringing on your door to take parcels for others when not convenient for you, just don't answer the door. Its not law that you have to open your door to every caller.

Personally, I think this is a good idea and have no problem taking parcels in for neighbours and vice versa - even though don't really know them other than to say "hi".

It can be a massive imposition. What if you are breastfeeding a tiny baby, what if your child is asleep - most parcel delivery people seem to knock really loudly, and that doesn't help.

And then you put down said baby or stumble to the door still attached to it - and find its' someone else's parcel that you have to sign for.

Yes, just opt out. This is such a non-thread.

If I recall the leaflet said something like 92% of the people they asked wouldn't mind so it's not as if they unjustified in thinking this is a good way to go. Perhaps the 8% are SAHMs and pensioners, but speaking as one myself, I wouldn't mind.

My old postie used to put mine in my DC play house and put a note through my door. Last week, the new postie put a note through my door saying it was taken back and I had to shift my arse to go and get it. I was not happy.
This week, he left a note saying my parcel was in the playhouse. Happy me!!
I do not want parcels left with my horrible neighbours though.

I generally have all parcels delivered to work as there is always someone there to receive it unlike us at home. Neighbours have always taken in the stuff that other people have sent directly to us. We get on with/know pretty much all our neighbours so this wouldn't be a problem for us but I don't like the imposition that could be placed on them.

i don't get people who call this a fuss about nothing or a non thread, you could say that about most stuff on mn,
maybe it doesn't bother the people who post that. but I heard it on the tv and thought it was imo wrong.
so I posted. I have found stuff out, like it isn't random, you can opt out and stuff like that.
so how is that a non thread?

if I opt out though can I still take them in for the couple of houses I don't mind?

I love my lovely neighbour. He's taken in four parcels in the last week for me and always knocks when he knows we are in or collars one of the kids.

He will be getting a nice bottle of something this Christmas. We're always ordering rubbish off of Amazon, the poor man is going to be tortured now Royal Mail are leaving things. We never/rarely get parcels for them. We get for next door the other way and over the road and round the corner. I always just give them a quick knock on my way out to work. No hassle, no fuss. They smile, say thank you I reply you're welcome, and that's it.

The girl next door is shy, she never speaks to us, but I'd still take in parcels for her. She is a single mum of two and doesn't drive. I'd not be nasty enough to give her the extra hassle of having to drag two kids down to the post office all for the sake of having a box/whatever in my hall for a few hours.

You're being a bit miserly imo OP.

I have ordered my sticker. I seem to be the local delivery office as everyone else works. I am fed up of being disturbed all the time for other people who then don't bother to collect their parcel for days.

Ice told our postie to pop it in the recycling bin rather than leave it next door. Dp gets all his parts delivered here as the post ay his shop is ay the crack of dawn and we don't want them being handled by a load of randoms and possibly lost

Postman was very grateful to have a spot assigned by us as it saves him hassle too. Took 20 seconds of my life and all sorted, hardly worth moaning about!