To think you don't accept a neighbours parcel if you are going away!

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I had a parcel delivery today whilst we were out, I received a text to say it had been left with a neighbour (gave number of house and name). This would normally be fine but they told my DH at the weekend in passing that they are going away for a few days so I rushed home but they had left!

I am furious that they would accept someone's parcel knowing full well that they were going away. We are going away ourselves at the end of the week and the parcel contains holiday items and I have no bloody idea if they are going to be back before them

And to those saying they just accepted it without thinking, I don't buy that, they knew they were leaving less than an hour after accepting the parcel!

So why do you think they accepted the parcel if not a genuine mistake? Are you suggesting that they were deliberately trying to deprive you of the parcel? What would be their motive?

Did you say they told your husband they were going away? If so did he tell them that you would be going away too? Perhaps they know they will be back in time?

I'm sure they did it without thinking, and I do agree with PP that couriers do often throw things at you. Couriers are under a lot of pressure but I hate that they often ring the bell & wait for a whole minute before trying a neighbour. You can opt out of having items delivered to your neighbour & most retailers will help out if you are waiting on an item. I also do collection now from local shops as i find that much easier.

I work for a company that delivers parcels and leaving with a neighbour is a big thing that were told to do for certain parcels. If we bring these parcels back we're questioned about it and have to fill in a form. They have delivery targets to hit and being delivered to a neighbour counts as being delivered. Just saying that's why it's done so much as I've seen a couple of people complaining about it, I don't want to do it, it takes me longer I'd rather just push a card through and carry on.

At least you know it's safe. Others are right if it's urgent then you make other arrangements - either by ensuring you are there on the delivery date, or by ensuring it got delivered to work/left in a safe place, or you arrange click and collect. You can even call most delivery companies now to ensure that failed deliveries go to the depot and you can arrange a collection from there.

If you work, why not get your parcels delivered to your work address - lots of people in my work do this

Swynwraig I tried this once and they attempted delivery on the Saturday to my workplace, which operates Monday to Friday, they obviously got no answer so took it to a random shop across the road and left it with them

The neighbours at my workplace are a private residential terraced house on a busy road, on Wednesday this week I was walking past on my lunch and there was an amazon parcel on their front step. Literally three strides away from the road. So I picked it up and rang the bell, no answer so I took it in work. Later the same day I saw the neighbour and gave her the parcel. The neighbour had not been left a card or any indication that the parcel was there so it could have been stolen - it had something costing £130 inside. I've no idea why Amazon just left it on their doorstep - we always take parcels in for them so no reason for them to not try a neighbouring building.

In my experience most companies don't give a delivery date and time option. Most don't even tell you what courier. I find it annoying. If they did tell me I would be in or rearranging not possible. I hate it when they leave parcels with neighbours - which is almost always! Even if they had a notes section would help so I could say a place to leave them.

That said although it's annoying, perhaps they were trying to do a good thing by figuring you'd be busy with lots to do before your holiday and would save you a job collecting it.

It is a bit dopey off them but I think they were probably just trying to do you a favour. Most parcels are tracked nowadays and if I'm expecting something I usually track it and make sure I'm in. Bit shit it's your holiday stuff though

Or get it delivered to one of those boxes at Morrisons or don't shop with amazon because they're shit anyway

You're grumpy - cheer up, you're off on holiday soon!