To pick up a parcel at 8.30pm?

[CottonEyedJoe]

Just got an email saying my parcels been delivered to a neighbour. I don't know them, quite a few doors down.

I'm not home from work till 8.30pm. Is this too late to knock to collect? I realllly want it, but it's not massively urgent.

AIBU to knock? Happy to be led by opinions so don't flame

I would be glad to be rid of the parcel - perhaps check if there are lights on/if the house looks awake and be really, really apologetic about how late it is, just in case...

I'd say your fine before 9 x

I think fine before 9 as well.

I wouldn’t mind if it was me

8.30 would be a good time here - kids bedtime over but my bedtime hasn't begun....

Yes of course.
Unless your neighbour is an mner then they won't answer the door after dark (and before dark in some cases)

Might be too late for an elderly person.

I had a neighbour knock on my door at 11pm last week to drop one of my parcels off he'd taken in so I'd say 8:30 is absolutely fine!

Fine with me but according to another thread on here people don't answer the door after dark. or at all.

Normal people-perfectly fine. Mumsnetters will set the dogs on you.

Yes, I think I've been on MN too long and that's what's making me doubt myself

I've got 2 young kids and a stupid doorbell. It wakens the dead.

I don't appreciate it being ring after kids are in bed (but I do answer!!)

Don't worry. In the RL people answer doors to their neighbours. if they have your parcel they will be expecting you. They may knock your door and give it to you.

Hmm one neighbour I wouldn’t at that time ( elderly) the other I would. But I would check for signs of lights on etc

I probably wouldn't, but most of my neighbours are elderly. If I knew it was a young person who was less likely to be intimidated by a knock at the door after it had started to get dark, then I would. And I'd be fine if someone collected a parcel from me at that time. After 9:00 then I wouldn't unless it was urgent. But I wouldn't telephone friends or family after 9:00 unless it was urgent or they were expecting me to either.

I'd say it was fine before about 9pm ... as long as there are lights on/they're clearly still awake and up and about, I'm sure they will be glad to have prompt collection

*I've got 2 young kids and a stupid doorbell. It wakens the dead.

I don't appreciate it being ring after kids are in bed (but I do answer!!)*

Ok, doubting myself again. But have to leave at 7.30 tomorrow to get to uni and am then working late again. So they'll probably be more annoyed having it until Saturday won't they? I did tell the website to put it in my garden

I'll check the lights

830pm is fine. Especially if the other option is leaving it til the weekend

Wouldn't bother me at that time, I wouldn't answer the door after 10 though, mostly because I'm in bed.

I wouldn't even mind 730am, though you'd catch me in my dressing gown.

"They may knock your door and give it to you."

If this happens you must of course ignore the knock and complain about it on here tomorrow

YY definitely Bertrand and call the neighbour a CF for daring to ring your doorbell and expect you to answer your door.

I also have a 9pm deadline in my head (I don't like people phoning me after 9 either) - so 8.30 is fine

And then ring 101 to "log it"

A neighbor brought a parcel around for us at 8:30pm last night. She didn't ring the bell so as not to wake our kids (she explained when I answered) which was very sweet of her - she rapped very hard on the living room window then disappeared from view before I looked in the right direction (into the door step as it turned out) so there appeared to be nobody there, outside in the dark where the sudden dramatic knocking came from, which freaked me out a little though :o