AIBU To not want to take parcels?

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I'm currently on maternity leave hence I'm home a lot more than usual at the moment.

Usually I don't mind taking parcels for neighbours, but the last week we have taken at least 2 parcels a day for various neighbours. The neighbours to our left usually get home from work between 4-10pm, the lady next door always arrives home before her partner but he's always sent to collect said parcels from us. Most of the parcels we have taken have been for these neighbours.

At the moment I have four parcels in my porch, and tonight I just thought to myself why should I take parcels for the whole street when only a couple of neighbours take them for us?

AIBU do you not want to take parcel to anybody any more? Part from those that take them for us obviously. I always try and be neighbourly but this is getting beyond a joke. Even the post lady has commented that we are the only house that seems to take everyone's parcels. She even tries to use alternative neighbours as she understands it must be annoying, I think partly it's because I would like it if a neighbour took a parcel for me.

How do I say no if somebody tries to deliver a parcel for neighbour? I know it's easy to just say no but sometimes it's quite hard if that makes sense?

Sorry for such a long post about such a trivial problem

The postman/woman shouldnt actually just be leaving parcels with you unless the neighbours have specifically asked for them to be left with you (i work at royal mail) parcels should be taken back to the delivery office unless neighbours have said your address is their "safe place" -to leave them

I rarely take in parcels, but then, I'm not home much on the daytime.

I have refused parcels before, such as the one with a strange name on but which had our address on. I know who my immediate neighbours are, but if someone's putting my address down when I don't even know them, well stuff that.

And I have no wish to get caught up in being accused of theft by signing for a parcel, another reason I only take in rare parcels for my immediate neighbours.

As for my own parcels, I arrange for them to go to safe places or to collection points, and it's very, very rare for one of my neighbours to be inconvenienced by a parcel of mine.

Make a sign along the Ines of, 'new baby sleeping please do not ring bell. Please leave any deliveries for this address in the porch.' I was always having to take parcels for a neighbour as they only appear at the weekends, they would then sometimes take weeks to collect them. They never bothered to make an effort to get to know us or really thank us for taking in their parcels. In the end I just started saying no and they now collect their parcels from the depot and I don't have a stack of deliveries getting in the way!

I sympathize. I work from home, so am the drop off choice for several neighbours. I mostly don't mind, but occasionally it gets out of hand. It isn't the responsibility or parcels clogging up my hall that irritates so much. It's the frequent interruptions from people collecting them.

Just don't answer the door 😋

Just don't answer the door

Tried that once, next thing I saw was a "sorry you were out" card on the mat!

Postmen are pretty good at remembering if you don't want to collect parcels for neighbours. I said no for the future for one neighbour after they failed to come and collect the parcel, I had to take it to them myself which irritated me. My postman completely understood.

if it is an issue just refuse them. One of my neighbours takes in parcels for us, but seems very pissed off about it. I would rather he didn't honestly as I would prefer the hassle to feeling guilty that he obviously dislikes it so much!

Yes it is neighbourly etc, and delivery guys have a job to do, but I totally agree, it's a pain in the butt.
For years since my youngest was born, I have taken all and sundry on our street. Parcels that have clogged up our tiny porch for days on end, and an 8ft x 4ft unmovable box that was left in our house for a fortnight as the neighbour in question had gone on holiday!
Over the past few months I had a growing frustration with the postman ringing my doorbell at really inconvenient times...nursing sick child..in the shower..getting child out of the bath etc etc. Only to find he had zilch for me, but something for the neighbours! The final straw came last month, six doors down for neighbours I have never spoken to and have never smiled once in 15 years..and I have to say, I politely declined. No more..I'm sorry, no can do. And lo and behold..he's not knocked since!