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?

If you don't want to accept parcels for your neighbours then don't. No biggy surely?

My work don't allow it. With 300 staff in the building the reception would end up doing nothing than taking in parcels.
We use click and collect or collect+ service when we can, but lots of stores don't offer these options.
If it's pissing you off, just say no to the delivery driver. Simple.

Right, and now I should not answer my door incase its a delivery driver delivering something not for me! You can't be serious?

Yeah I do get where you are coming from - my neighbours always seem to order large parcels before going on holiday, unfortunately the males in my house take them without considering where the hell we will put them.

All very well and good people saying "well don't take them" but I still have to answer the door when I am trying to work.

I live in a village and even here there are 3 shops which you can have parcels delivered to

If you keep taking them in, the delivery companies will keep knocking on your door.

Put a sign up to say you don't take in parcels for neighbours.

I'd hate to live next to miserable mean-spirited neighbours who would refuse to take a parcel in.

Not allowed at my work place. I do always try and ask for Royal Mail delivery though, as we live very close to the delivery office to go and pick things up.

Her say No I am unable to take delivery. Then they have to leave a card.

Her = just

I work from home and the bloody delivery drivers always seem to turn up during the school run so my neighbours get loads of parcels for me. I do ask delivery drivers to leave packages behind the gate but they never do. It's really annoying. But I will give the neighbours a box of chocolates at Xmas so maybe yours will do too

Just tell your neighbours you can't take parcels in for them anymore. Or tell the couriers and they won't knock on your door any more.

The couriers will tell your neighbours though.

people are ordering things for home delivery knowing that they are not going to be at home! Make other arrangements, lazy people.

How nice of you. We are not lazy. We don't expect you to take our parcels in and we don't generally get the option of being picky as to when they arrive. We expect to go collect parcels from the sorting office/have to rearrange delivery to a more convenient time when the DPD text/email arrives. This is perfectly normal.

If you are so bothered by it stick a notice on your door that you do not accept parcels for other people.

Who knows, you might live near me AgentP!

Point being, of course, that since I am accepting deliveries all the time (to the extent that it annoys me) I am not actually being mean-spirited and refusing to take in parcels for my neighbours .

I always hate it when my parcels are delivered to our neighbours and have actually asked parcel force (the worst culprit) not to do it on more than one occasion.

I am happy to arrange a re-delivery if I am out, that is what the card is for. I live very rurally and shop online a lot.

I dislike it because - I never know whether I will get a wave or a dirty look from the neighbour concerned (nothing to do with parcels I might add when she is always charming) - they are almost my parent's age and I don't like to think that their afternoon snooze has been disturbed - it just feels presumptuous, like I requested it when I absolutely did not.

So I think that YABU, the problem is with the delivery driver here, not the person who ordered it who might feel as awkward as I do.

Well then I think you need to stop taking packages and stop being such a martyr about it. As someone else has suggested, put a sign up. Much better people actually KNOW what you want rather than doing to opposite and then speaking to everyone else about it.

You can put a note up saying you only take deliveries for your address, then you won't have them ringing your bell.
But i agree that YANBU as they should clear it with you first if it is a regular thing.

Rather than getting pee'd off. Just say No. They will eventually get the message and stop asking you if you will accept the delivery.

Problem solved.

I think, MrsDe, that the people who have ordered packages should leave a sign saying "please do not deliver to neighbours" on their door. Why should the onus be on me to sort out their parcel deliveries?

There is a shop on our High Street which has the lockers. I think I will tell them about it when they come to collect their Boden parcel tonight.

My work will not allow us to get deliveries there at all so YABU!

Well, you have no control over what they do but you do have control over what you do. Put a sign up saying no deliveries, speak to your neighbours and say it is intrusive and you won't be accepting any more deliveries. And then don't accept any more deliveries.

Done.

if you refuse it enough times they will stop

Well, whats the answer fluffy? Its rather presumptious to just think someone will take care of it for you isn't it?

So, in other words IANBU then MrsDe .

i do agree with you btw - i would never expect my neighbours to be around for my deliveries and i felt very bad when there were a couple of periods around christmas one year when i mistimed the deliveries and they were on days when i wasn't in, and the neighbours kindly took in a few parcels

i'm lucky that my workplace now does accept deliveries

YABU in accepting parcels, not saying anything to the neighbours about it and then moaning to everyone else.

I have no idea what the neighbours are doing or why you're getting the parcels (could be delivery company ignoring instructions, not delivering at the right time/day etc) so can't comment on that.