To have refused to take in another parcel for next door neighbour?

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It was the fourth in three weeks, getting fed up! Do you put a limit on how many you accept?

My neighbours and I all take in parcels for each other. It's a nice thing to do for your neighbours. Four parcels in three weeks is nothing! I took in four parcels one day this week as three neighbours were all out when the courier came.
After one time when parcels didn't get collected for days by a neighbour who was away (but had left student child in house who was too vague) I've got all my neighbours numbers and I message them to let them know it's arrived if they haven't turned up by 7pm.
But normally they come straight over to collect when they get home, as we all do.

Are you my neighbour? 🤨

OMG, how do you cope? That's literally 10s of seconds out of your life every 5 days or so.

March round to the neighbours, throw the parcel at them and scream that you are not their slave.

This made me laugh.

Of course YABVVVU.
Why wouldn't you make someone else's life that little bit easier if you can ?

I don't understand why you wouldn't help your neighbours out. Helping each other makes for a good community.

4 parcels in 3 weeks is a tiny, tiny imposition on your day. It really is quite negligible.

Don’t accept parcels if you don’t want to but be aware that it’s reciprocal and therefore no one else will take your parcels in either.

We always accept deliveries if we’re in, including some pretty large items.

I have a strong feeling of deja vu!

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3429426-To-expect-neighbours-to-come-and-collect-their-missed-parcels?pg=7

On the whole, I refuse parcels now. I'll take the odd one in for the neighbour opposite me but the other people in the block of flats I live in can sort out their own re-delivery. I am fed up of people just assuming because I'm at home in the daytime that I'm happy to keep doing it. They never come and get the damn things, always expect us to take them up or down to them and very rarely say thank you.
Ever since I've stopped taking them in, I've felt a lot happier.
When you live in a block of flats and you're the one who takes stuff in, it can become a chore! I'm not doing it any more.

Me & my neighbours take in parcels for each other, we collect them though. We don't expect them to bring them round when we get home.

I wouldn't accept anything too large tho as that would cause a problem. That said, I took a neighbours grocery shop in the other week as it turned up early lol.

No. We often do. It’s not a problem. Happy to help our neighbours and they do the same for us. You sound mean.

I take in parcels for the whole neighbourhood all the time as i am at home during the day now. Cannot for the life of me see what the problem is.

We do a lot of mail order. Thankfully our neighbours are great and we would always take a parcel for them too. No problem. 4 parcels in 3 weeks is nothing.

I work full time and DH works nights so a parcel box by the back gate has been a godsend for us. Which is why a doorbell waking up DH asking him to take a parcel for a neighbour is really infuriating. We do it through gritted teeth as an occasional favour but honestly in this day and age with so many alternative delivery options no-one need really to rely on neighbours to accept parcels on their behalf.

I never understand why people wouldn't take in parcels. I'm in most of the day and must take in a a dozen a week. Postie hands them to me, they sit in the porch, neighbours come and get them and say thank you.

remember people, it's nice to be nice

redfairy if your DH is sleeping because he’s on night shift that’s entirely different - of course it’s not unreasonable to not want to be disturbed.

I’d put up a sign.

I'm home a lot and regularly take in parcels for a lot of neighbours. I did refuse one for some nice neighbours once because the box was enormous. Turns out it was an adult mountain bike which they had arranged a specific delivery slot for and it had been due the following day.
I will not take anything for the family opposite who are miserable and unfriendly, they were horrible to the old lady who used to live next to them.

Oh don't be mean!

Doesn't bother me. I like my neighbours...they would do the same for me!

My neighbours are lovely and come and collect parcels as soon as they get home, so I really don't mind taking any in for them. If they didn't do that, I might think differently about it.

I’ll always take the parcels, I’m happy to help, my neighbours always take mine when I’m not in.