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To think neighbours should come and collect their parcel?

264 replies

bibbitybobbityyhat · 10/12/2016 21:51

Dh took in a fairly large parcel (think box of wine size) for our neighbours on Thursday or maybe even Wednesday afternoon - I can't remember.

It has been in our narrow one person width hallway since then.

Aibu to be a wee bit pissed off now?

And

Wwyd?

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Guavaf1sh · 10/12/2016 23:02

YABU

cardibach · 10/12/2016 23:03

And this two minute trip happens how many times a day, OP? Struggling to see it as a massive disruption, especially when you look at other workplaces. (I'm a teacher and never get more than about 10 minutes of admin/prep/marking time without an interruption!

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bibbitybobbityyhat · 10/12/2016 23:04

Apologies Saucery, it was HeadElf who said about the photo of the rubbish! You were the one grilling me about everything else.

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PaulAnkaTheDog · 10/12/2016 23:05

Yabu for having the luxury of working from home ina large London terrace and complaining about people who have to leave their homes for work?

Will that yabu stick? I doesn't even really make sense but we're all pretty desperate now Grin

HeadElf · 10/12/2016 23:05

Two whole minutes Shock well that changes everything...

Saucery · 10/12/2016 23:05

Ah, ok. Check your clocks though, cos I very much doubt it's 2 minutes down those stairs top stealth boast though

WorraLiberty · 10/12/2016 23:07

God, threads like this just make me appreciate my neighbours even more.

It's the run up to Christmas, if we have to take parcels in we do it for each other because it's the decent thing to do.

If someone doesn't collect once they're home, it's just assumed they haven't received/seen the delivery card.

No fuss, no drama, no martyrdom.

Saucery · 10/12/2016 23:08

Grilling?

Because I didn't pat you on the head and agree they are consumerist pisstakers with a lax attitude to waste disposal and a crack team of trained vulpines?

AuntJane · 10/12/2016 23:10

Are you my neighbour? Checking on line, a large package we've been waiting for was "signed for by a neighbour" on Thursday over a week ago, but we have no idea which neighbour. We've tried half a dozen, but are now hoping that someone will knock on our door and ask "Can you come and get your parcel please?"

SailingThroughTime · 10/12/2016 23:13

Love mine too. We do lots of stuff for each other in our street but the thing I like best is the lack of judgeyfuckerness. Almost all my neighbours are older than me but there's not a single curmudgeonly fucker amongst them.

galaxygirl45 · 10/12/2016 23:13

If you know they are in, I'd dump it on their doorstep tbh. I never mind taking parcels in, as our neighbours are very good at doing the same. But I would be fed up looking at it for several days. I always specify that we leave our shed open at the back for deliveries, and usually book them for when I know I'm home. I used to work for a florist, and it was the worst part of the job doing deliveries, people were rarely at home and you could trek up and down streets trying to find a neighbour that would take them, and you couldn't ever leave them. It was a nightmare, so I try and show courtesy to delivery drivers.

Saucery · 10/12/2016 23:15

I had a parcel left for someone who had been admitted suddenly to hospital. There in my porch sizeable, large Victorian, nice tiles, doorbell a bit dodgy, can't hear knocker at back as goes back a fair way for over a week. Bloody liberty! Angry

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bibbitybobbityyhat · 10/12/2016 23:16

Yeah, iabu for working from home, living in a large London terrace (it's not that large, just has a lot of stairs), noticing that neighbours bins are always overflowing onto the street/our garden before bin collection day, not wanting parcels in my narrow hallway, not wanting to take in parcels just because I happen to be working from home, not admitting to being angry when I'm not, not having anything better to do on a Saturday night,
hypocritical over use of the strike through, not posting photos of my front garden, being embarrassing and everything else. I admit it all.

Dh just got in from work 10 mins ago and asked what I'm doing. He is bemused.

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lauryloo · 10/12/2016 23:17

You could have just popped it round in the time you've wasted ranting about it

PaulAnkaTheDog · 10/12/2016 23:18

Dh just got in from work 10 mins ago and asked what I'm doing. He is bemused.

As are we all.

HeadElf · 10/12/2016 23:18

What's DHs stand point on the issues at hand here?

Saucery · 10/12/2016 23:19

I'm not surprised he's bemused. You could have been fitting a wide bannister for you to glide quickly instead of titting about on here trying to convince a load of people who are laid back about doing a neighbour a favour that you're not a miserable and unhelpful sod.

Starlight2345 · 10/12/2016 23:26

I will add another YABU...I won't explain why as you aren't interested..

My neighbour with a young child has been looking for a parcel all week..Courier had put wrong number on the card... Luckily a neighbour saw her and said she had a parcel so all problems solved and we live on to take in each others parcels without any problems.

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bibbitybobbityyhat · 10/12/2016 23:27

Indeed I could have just popped it round lauryloo, just as the neighbours could have just popped round to collect it any time in the last 2 or 3 days.

But I have not been ranting. I do take issue with that. The most I have admitted to is being a "wee bit pissed off".

All the anger/bitterness/unneighbourliness/curmudgeonlyness/not being quite right in the head/stealth boasting/ranting have been conjured up by my fellow posters.

Dh's take is that ianbu either. If we are going to have boxes cluttering up our hall he would rather they are our boxes.

Anyway, I've suggested its the last time we take a parcel in for these neighbours and he agrees. Hopefully the couriers will soon catch on. I won't put a note on the door as that seems to be a step too far.

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PaulAnkaTheDog · 10/12/2016 23:28

Op, if you need rid of the wine send a couple bottles my way. I'm out 8-6.30 but I'm sure my neighbours would take the delivery.

Seriously though; other than hoping that people might agree with you, what responses were you wanting?

HeadElf · 10/12/2016 23:31

Oooo your DH sounds fun, what does he plan on doing with his preferred boxes in the hallway? Might he build a fort?

Perhaps he could build you a bridge so you can get the fuck over it!

Floggingmolly · 10/12/2016 23:32

If it's definitely wine and they don't know you've got it... get stuck in!

Floggingmolly · 10/12/2016 23:33

You could probably use a glass after this thread. Very aggressive, for some reason Confused

Loubilou09 · 10/12/2016 23:36

Such an awful amount of time, worry and angst spent on this thread instead of just popping round and telling the neighbours there is a parcel for them.

That shit is weird ConfusedShock

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bibbitybobbityyhat · 10/12/2016 23:37

Saucery and your Victorian tiled path, if you want to believe I'm a miserable and unhelpful sod then do carry on. There is a great community on my street and I am friends with many of the neighbours. I shall be doing Christmas drinks with a good few houses in the next few weeks.

I'm wondering if "miserable and unhelpful sod" is now verging on the personal attack? It would be interesting to ask HQ as the rules are a bit vague just now.

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