to think that if you are a couple who both work long hours every day, you should have parcels delivered to your work address rather than home and rely on neighbours constantly taking in parcels!

[Mintyy]

Well?

But Mintyy, surely you know if you've got a parcel due to be delivered - just like your inconsiderate neighbours do. So unless you've got a parcel due, why not just ignore the door if you're busy?

And if you're working and don't want to be disturbed by answering the door, I don't get why you'd be happy for a friend to drop by.

Like I said, I'd much prefer delivery companies either left notes for redelivery/depot collection or left the parcel in my garden. But some see it as an absolute last resort, and so my neighbours get bothered.

A friend of mine is on extremely poor terms with her neighbour and she has a sign on her door saying "Couriers: if no one at home, please do not leave parcels with neighbours". I think that's the considerate thing to do, anyway, unless you are sure your neighbours are happy to take them in for you.

So, now I have restricted myself to taking in parcels for 6 other houses on the street. I think that's fair enough, don't you?

Up to you - as long as it's not going to bother you taking parcels in for those six. I get the feeling that the issue is more with the household in question as much as the principle, though?

Different people find different things irritating. I don't mind taking in parcels for anyone, as long as it's not disrupting me. If I'm not up for being disturbed I don't answer the door, unless I'm expecting something. Works for me, sounds like it doesn't for you.

I love how everyone who works in an office assumes everyone else works behind a desk. Some of us actually...like........move around during the day

I just came home and a parcel was on my door step-I thought of this thread

Given that I live in a flat, I'm not really allowed to tape anything to the front door. So considerate or not, there's not much I can do.

I've also just ordered something with an estimate delivery date between 9th and 29th October. Quite how I'm to plan whether I'll be in to receive it or not I don't know!

mintyy I'm exactly the type of orrson you are do annoyed about. I'm at work all day and so us DH. We have our parcels delivered to our house too!
I do have a system in place though. I'm expecting the delivery company to leave a note for me to pick up the parcel at their warehouse.
I'm never asking the people I'm ordering from to deliver to our neighbour but they still do.
Simply because they are there more often and they know they will pick up for us. They never go to see anyone else.
Maybe the issue us that the delivery people know you are there because you're working from home AND take parcels. Maybe the one way to deal with it if it's such a nuisance is to put a note on your door stating you don't take parcels?
Tbh there isn't a lot else you can do as you can't expect people to receive deliveries at work (I can see the mess in reception around Christmas where my DH work. 500 people potentially having parcels delivered in reception . That's nit going to happen)
But you would be right to expect the system to work as it us supposed to ie leaving a delivery note and fir the person to go and pick it up.

Also us the problem nit that divert companies EXPECT neighbours to pick parcels up rather than following instruction given by the buyer on the order form?
So why do they think it's ok? Probably because before the internet shopping, receiving parcels was far in between so not such an issue as nowadays.
It doesn't mean they can't change their ways of working though.

We get at least two deliveries every single day and I am the one answering the door as I work from home. They are all for our house. I had two separate ones today both for my daughter.

I find it's bad enough having to answer for my own parcels as it's so disruptive. They always seem arrive when I'm concentrating or on the phone or work call or in the summer just after I've stripped off to lie in the garden.

There are plans to have drop of parcel points in London underground stations which might help people out at work all day who don't have an office or don't have an office which allows deliveries.

Yep, there's one just opened at Waterloo, called Doddle

When I worked from home I could sometimes be the only one in on the whole street, I had parcels from say number 10 when I'm number 30. I didn't mind too much as long as it was only a couple a day or I'd be up and down every 5 minutes.

YANBU.

I work from home. As in, I work. Earning money and everything. It really pisses me off to have to go and answer the door for other people's parcels.

Actually it even pisses me off if they're for DP.

I don't do the "I don't answer the door" thing, though. Sometimes it's for me.

The most annoying thing about taking in parcels for neighbours is that I can't open them to see what's inside.

YABU, my workplace doesn't allow personal parcel deliveries. When I order something online I am expecting a card through my door and then I can collect it at the weekend or I do use click and collect where available.

Have your Neighbours come and collected their latest parcel ?

Have you told them yet, that you will no longer be their unpaid parcel service ?

Are you that poster who has trouble letting go?

huh? clearly not.

I respectfully suggest you hide the thread now and it will quietly die a death.

why do you want it to die? anyway, i'll think about your respectful suggestion.