To hate when neighbours sign for my parcels

[Marshmellowfiga]

Especially neighbours I do not even know. I understand it's a nice thing some do but if you aren't in all day then I have to constantly go back and forth knocking on the door hoping you are in.
It's so annoying, why can't people just refuse it? I refuse to do it only my upstairs neighbour I sign for because we have a communal bit that I can leave the parcel for when he returns.
A neighbour few doors down signed for my expensive parcel from harrods and hasn't been in since it was signed for at 11am
Should I leave a note?

[Butteredparsnips]

Oh dear. I think someone's stealth boast go under the radar in the first post.

[Butteredparsnips]

Went. not go. Doh!

[coffeeisnectar]

Our parcels get put through the cat flap or in our shed if they don't fit through the cat flap. Next door get lots of stuff delivered and we take it all in, and we even take in stuff for the previous owners if it's escaped through the mail forwarding system. It's called being helpful.

I think yabvu and stealth boasting about Harrods. I bet you are just pissed off because no one has asked what was in the parcel :o

[Mehitabel6]

A wind up because nothing is worse than having to go and get it. It is hardly a random person! It is a neighbour. I have lived in lots of places and never had a smelly neighbour!

[Starlightbright1]

oooh poor you..What awful neighbours you have...and how dare them go out when holding your parcel !!

[Mehitabel6]

I am sure MN is an alternative universe! I am used to 'dirty' strangers and now we have 'smelly' neighbours.

[MaggieJoyBlunt]

Do and F & M still do liveried delivery? Would that work?

[Mehitabel6]

Absolutely dreadful- how dare they be helpful and sign for a parcel!

[littlequestion]

I work from home, neighbours have proper jobs and I am constantly taking in parcels.i thought I was being nice. They react like I'm being nice....

[Summerwood1]

Haha!!!!

[CheesyDibbles]

having her parcel left with some random person who may have a smelly home

Jesus wept. Sorry, just cannot take this seriously.

[MrsBertMacklin]

I highly recommend DPD, I try to only shop with companies who offer them as a courier.

An email the day before delivery is due giving you the option to rearrange, a two hour delivery window on the day itself and text updates, the choice to nominate a safe place or a neighbour to take delivery and they send you a photo evidencing that they were at your house, to prove any Missed Deliveries

Yodel still shit.

[CatOfTheGreenGlades]

I shop a lot online and almost everything I've ever ordered has an option for you to give special instructions - so in there just put "Please don't leave my item with a neighbour but return to depot if I'm out".

I do think you're unusual – I'm shy and find the parcel-handing-over part a bit awkward, but I'd still rather that than have to wait a day and schlep to the depot. I also take in lots of my neighbours' parcels as I work from home and they always seem really grateful.

[StaceyAndTracey]

I live in a naice area so have a better class of non smelly neighbour

[Ionone]

YABVU. They aren't to know you are weird about it. Most people would be pleased. My neighbours take parcels for me occasionally and I often take parcels for people as I work from home so am usually in. It has never occurred to me that anyone would mind (and, in fact, they don't, they always thank me very genuinely).

As for smelly neighbours, they'd have to be pretty damn smelly to transfer the smell to a parcel (presumably adequately packaged) in the space of a day or so max! Never happened to me. Maybe I'm the smelly neighbour!

[CatOfTheGreenGlades]

I'm probably the smelly neighbour on our street. It's extremely naice and full of SAHMs and retired people with sparkling homes.

[Ionone]

DPD are v good, it's true.

[SEmyarse]

I'm extremely grateful for everyone who takes in parcels for neighbours. i'm a courier, and I would say I get a refusal to take in a parcel less than once a month.

We don't do depot collection, and I only get paid for successful deliveries, if there was a sudden cultural change where most people didn't do this then I would quickly be overloaded with days worth of parcels in my car since we have to do 3 attempts for each one.

[CheesyDibbles]

Will there be a prize for anyone who can guess what was in the Harrods parcel? I am guessing the full La Prairie skin care range. Or perhaps some Burberry (cashmere) baby clothes?

[MrsHenryMountbattenWindsor]

Oh no, what a massive PITA having to pop a few doors down the hall / road instead of traipsing to the post office. That's a real shitter, for sure.

If it annoys you that much, why don't you put 'DO NOT LEAVE WITH NEIGHBOURS' on the delivery instructions?

[Sparklingbrook]

If you aren't in all day don't order parcels to be delivered to your house.

[Mehitabel6]

No- I haven't had a dirty neighbour.
It is quite easy - be clear in your instructions for delivery.