...to refuse any more parcels for next door neighbours?

[Justmuddlingalong]

I think my next door neighbours have put me down as the official 'taker-inner' of their parcels, without asking. I am at home during the day, so always take in parcels. But it's getting ridiculous. I've taken in 2 separate deliveries today alone, for next door. They work all day, Mon-Fri, so the postman and numerous delivery drivers knock on my door, and I'm getting pissed off with it. When they get home, I take the parcels to their door, where I get a grunt in what I presume is thanks. Dp is nightshift, so it's annoying him too. I don't want to be unneighbourly, but should I just start refusing to take in next door's many parcels?

Yip. The note's still there, expat. I heard the gate open earlier, no knock or anything put through my letterbox, so it could've been a parcel. Fingers crossed. DP will be delighted to have had an uninterrupted sleep before his shift tonight.

Your DP's sleep is reason enough to not accept these parcels anymore.

The woman said they weren't expecting it until after Christmas and they didn't have room for it, "What with the decorations." DH explained it would be in their front garden if they didn't pick it up straight away. The man thought DH was being very unreasonable because we live in a "big house" and there's "only 2 of us".

Some people are shocking

If I'm on nights I put a polite note on the door asking not to be disturbed. (Unless I'm expecting a parcel myself).

Lilymaid thanks so much for the link on your post (page 4) to the Royal Mail 'opt out' sticker (to tell them you don't want parcels going to neighbours- also you don't want to take in parcels for neighbours). I have just ordered one. Let's hope delivery drivers from other companies will see it and also take the hint!

I would be pleased with the grunting, because if at any point they come and complain that you don't take in their post anymore, you can just explain that you didn't think they appreciated you accepting their post, what with them never thanking you...

Magimix I really hope we're not who we each mean! Mine went on for a month or so and I'd be even more mortified if the neighbours had thought that was a really long time.

Some incredibly bizarre behaviour on here though!

I chap their door to give them their parcels because they never come to collect them

Maybe they read that barmy thread a while ago where someone insisted going to your neighbours door to collect your parcels was the very height of rudeness.

I heard the gate open earlier, no knock or anything put through my letterbox, so it could've been a parcel. That's a nice update Fingers crossed you get no more!

Nah, rainy, we're talking many, many months. Not neighbours after all then

Phew!

Phew!
How rude

Though you obviously sound like a very nice neighbour!

I do understand why you don't want people knocking at your door during the day, OP (shift work) but people are different. I wouldn't want someone knocking if I were in your circumstances but I seem to have become the package taker-in for this small close of twelve houses because I appear to be the only person who's in during the day. Postmen and delivery men have learned this and they now all know where to come to offload the goods. If I'm out, tough. I always ensure that they put a note through the addressee's letter box though and I wait for that person to collect.

Next door has so many things delivered (friend) that I have a front door key and the things are delivered directly into that house because they are usually extremely long or big in other ways.

I took in a parcel for someone in the first house in the next street and a joke was made about my starting up a business as a collection point . I quite enjoy it actually because I have someone to speak to even if it's only, "Yes, I'll take it."

'Just take it in and wait for them to come round to collect it.'

'That only works if it is a small parcel and the delivery driver has remembered to put a card through their door.'

Occasionally a neighbour's parcel sits in my hallway for a while. I just go round with it, armed with a postcard saying 'Come and get your parcel from my address' in case they're not in when I take it.

It's not a neighbour's fault if a delivery driver has failed to put a card through their door. It's happened to me and I know how annoying it is.

I would put a sign on the door saying that you will not accept parcels for neighbours.