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?

No, it was the comment about the commute. That's what I said "what" about. You seem to be suggesting that because I work from home at the moment I don't know anything about commuting. I can't graps what that's got to do with my op.

I don't know these people. I have never spoken to them. I don't want to be their p.o. box. I think they are taking their neighbours for granted if they don't use one of the many delivery options available to them when they know they are both out of the house 12 hours a day 5 days a week.

What delivery drivers like or don't like should be my concern ... why exactly? Can you remind me?

I am suggesting your approach won't work.

Either all (take in for everyone) or nothing (sign saying you don't accept packages for anyone) is the way to go here.

Click and collect? Surely that only applies to big places like Argos or Sainsburys doesn't it? Little One Man Band Company isn't going to offer that option. I always get my stuff delivered to work when I can but as I not in the office all week it may well mean that something big gets delivered for me when I'm not there and it sits around cluttering up the place until I'm in next. I would never assume that my neighbour is happy to take it in for me - I would assume it would be taken back to the sorting office for redelivery or collection. It's up to the driver in the end.

grasp

You've never spoken to them? What happens when they collect the parcels. Has Marcel Marceau moved next door?

It's also neighbourly not to inconvenience your neighbours and just assume that they will be available for you. The post/parcels are for your benefit and it's up to you to be responsible enough to organise acceptable delivery terms.

Fwiw if I see someone trying to deliver to a neighbour who is out I will offer to take it for them, likewise if a neighbour asks if I would take in a parcel for them I am happy to help, but if they just assume I am purely there for their convenience, then no I won't oblige.

It's all about communication and give and take.

Ok I've read back and seen they're
a) not ndn
b) lummocks who are rude rather than mine artists.
I'd have said 'say please' the first time and 'gosh what a lot of parcels you get- how convenient I was in again'
Without. A. Smile.
But your ways good too.

You've never spoken to them? What happens when they collect the parcels

Not from my post but I've had this situation.
What happens is I ring the courier, play merry hell, and they collect the mis-delivered item from the neighbour and deliver it properly to me. That's the way to go.

At least this OP is not like the OP who took major humpage when the parcel owners turned up at her door to retrieve parcels instead of waiting for OP to graciously bestow parcels upon them at her convenience.

That was whack.

Guffaw at Marcel Marceau

V good

After reading al this thread I am enormously grateful for excellent neighbours. They accept parcels for me, on occasion I do the same for them (Yes, I am one of those dreaded people who is out at work for 12 hrs a day) and I have a safe place in my garden that delivery people use for all the cottages in the row.

It's called give and take.

And yes, I can fully appreciate that lots of parcels for unknown distant neighbours would be a pain so am genuinely glad to live in a place where this is not an issue.

I am so grateful for the neighbours who take my parcels in if I am not at home (lots do come in the evening when we are back) and I am happy to take in theirs too.

Arranging for a delivery at work is a non-starter for me if they might possibly arrive after 4pm, and many of my parcels do!

Exactly Dido, give and take, arrangements that suit everyone. They are neighbours not lackeys.

Yes Pumpkin that was truly whack.

I can't graps what that's got to do with my op.

I was conflating commuting with working out of the home. Not the point really. Just that working from home is convenient and some people simply don't have that option.

That's why I arranged my life to not have to do it.

that's great for you. lots of people can't.

Quite, Mintyy, what is written on?

oh, just a little give and take. being a good neighbour. That's all.

why do you have to know the person to take a package in? Are you really going to list the house numbers of people you know on a little sheet of paper and tape it to your door?

I took in approx 100 parcels for a neighbour over a period of about 6 weeks last year Couldn't have cares less tbh. I cannot imagine getting angry over a parcel. It's completely standard for the courier to knock on a few doors before taking the parcel back.

Yep, that's what I have done

Put a sign up mintyy. YANBU to not want to take them in though.

"Says the person who is at home all day"

to the twat who said that from me and my 3 children, 3 and under.

"Says the person who is at home all day"

i said it.

as about 100 posters have said, it's not at all easy to make other arrangements. so, my comment was "make other arrangements, lazy people". it's not laze that that's the problem. There is no button "deliver between 6:30-8:30 and after 17:00" for most online orders. it's simply not there.

Exactly written be a good neighbour don't treat you neighbours as lackeys there purely for the convenience of accepting your parcel deliveries. The parcels are for you, they are for your benefit, you order on-line for your convenience, factor into that some consideration for others who may not want to act as a parcel depot just so you don't have to put yourself out.

Yes it would seem reasonable to have some level of communication with a neighbour you expect to assist you by accepting deliveries on your behalf.

If your work place allows the option of having things delivered there, then yes it is best to have it delivered to work.

Though plenty of workplaces don't have that option.

Royal mail are getting shit, anyway. I wanted my 3DS (yes, which I bought for myself...) to come to my work address but royal mail wouldn't allow it, but have got cheaper things delivered there before? the order was special delivery guarenteed, so I think that's why. Having to wait till tomorrow now because they wouldn't leave it with neighbours, they took it to a delivery office 45 minutes away!

just so you don't have to put yourself out.

what, exactly, is your suggestion? it's not like you can easily contact online retailers and make a delivery time.

Exactly written be a good neighbour don't treat you neighbours as lackeys there purely for the convenience of accepting your parcel deliveries.

if my neighbours ever expressed that sentiment I would of course take it into account.