I am not a fucking parcel holding service!!!!!

[cjt110]

IKIABU ... Have posted about this before - but last time was potentially understandable... We were getting calls via our intercom (it is linked to our mobiles not handsets in the home) for our neighbour - We are 105 and they are 105A. OK fine. Easy done.

Now it appears we are the ONLY people from the whole block of 30 apartments to be arsed to give our mobile number over. So I now get calls for every fucker.

Yesterday I get a call "Hi it's Amazon. No 100 isn't in" Whoopy do. Few days previous "Can you let me in - I have a parcel for 79" Repeat ad infinitude times per week.

I am fed up of being called for everyone!
I wouldn't mind but we have a fucking consierge that's the between 8 and 1 and a foyer in which parcels CAN be left. Clearly the parcels do not need to be signed for... if 100, or 79 or anyone isn't in they aren't going to get a signature... leave the bloody thing in the foyer!

Lost my shit after Mr Amazon yesterday and have put this notice above the intercom in the foyer...

Had it read what I wanted it to ACTUALLY say it would also say something like "To obtain your parcel back, I want a handling fee or I'll throw the thing in the fucking bin you lazy arse!"

ARRRRRRRRRRRRRGH. Just sheer laziness and a fucking pain in the arse

OP if you accept a parcel you become a bailee and are not obliged to do anything other than take reasonable care of it until it is collected. You are not entitled to throw it away or to convert the contents to your own use.
The best thing is to refuse to have anything to do with the parcels.
Maybe contact your building’s management company and ask them to advise residents of the correct procedure re delivery of parcels.
Could there be ( hypothetically) security problems regarding parcels left randomly outside doors etc?

Your notice is a bit silly. You need to addresss the courier and tell them to leave parcels with concierge. You can't steal the parcels just give notice you don't accept them for other people, they don't have to give a number out, they can tell companies to deliver to concierge

@Ngaio2

I have refused and I still get the bloody calls. The management company have already written 5 or so times asking for people to provide their numbers for the intercom service.

No security issue for parcels being left in the main foyer or on people's doormats.

@Missingstreetlife The conseirge is only there between 8 and 1. The call from Mr Amazon yesterday was at 2.30.

Hence why I've said provide a number to the consierge, management company or the courier service.

I wouldn't really take something that isn't mine but it's bloody frustrating because you're then playing cat and mouse trying to catch the bloody neighbour.

when we have people come round, they can't get in because the intercom doesn't ring us...

Could you tell your visitors to ring your mobile instead?

So just say is this for 105...
If they say no. Then say bye. Disconnect the call ..

@Ellie56 How do I then buzz them in from 4 floors up?

My grandma has started getting parcels addressed to her house instead of the neighbour a few doors down but with the neighbours name on it. When confronting the neighbour (bear in mind my grandma is 89 has blood cancer, heart failure and needs a Zimmer to walk) the neighbours reply was "your always home and we're not"
Told her not to accept any more parcels for anyone else. It's too much for her.

They text you to say they've arrived and then you buzz them in. Parcels all delivered to your work and number blocked. Job done

How frustrating it can’t continue

So what happens if you just say no and hang up

Peanutty, that is shocking behaviour on the part of your grandma's neighbour. I just cannot get over how utterly cheeky, inconsiderate, selfish and bad mannered some people can be.

People are getting unduly confused by phone thing. (Probably OP's fault, as that's how she framed it.) Just think of it as a doorbell. The OP's doorbell is being rung because other peoples doorbells don't work. The solution is not to disable her own doorbell. They only thing she can do is refuse to open the door or accept parcels for other people. And maybe leaving a note on the communal door in the hope that couriers will be deterred from ringing.

@PettyContractor Thanks for similifying... I don't think our type of intercom is common.

Why the hell should I stop my own "doorbell" and access working because there's upto 29 lazy fuckers in the building who can't be arsed.

It won't really help for everyone else to fix their doorbell (give their phone number) as presumably the main issue is that most people aren't at home when the courer comes. He's still going to try and leave parcels with whoever is home.

I've been in a similar position to OP, for a while Amazon were ringing me every time they needed to come through the communal gate. I suspect Amazon man or even Amazon's computer had made a note of who is always home when they call. It seems to have mysteriously stopped now though.

@cjt110

I assumed once they had contacted you, you could then buzz them in. This is what we did when the intercom buzzer of the holiday flat we were staying in, wasn't working properly.

Same here. I lost my shit when upstairs rang an ambulance and didn't answer. That was 11.30pm. 2am intercom goes, OOH GP. 5.30am nurse rings
If I don't answer the intercom we don't get post 🤷🏽‍♀️
They rang 999 again the other night at 11pm and I heard the crew arrive and they didn't answer the intercom. Can't be that urgent if you ring 999 and don't answer the door!

We do have a full-time concierge at the gate now, but Amazon man actually stopped pestering me a little while before that was in place.

I now find (meaning it's happened twice) that I get parcels left with concierge even when I'm in. (The concierges rules for taking deliveries is that the courier is supposed to actually try and deliver to the flat first, before relying on him. Doesn't always happen.)

"Hi it's Amazon. No 100 isn't in" ... "Can you let me in - I have a parcel for 79"

"No".

Job done.

The intercom gives people the ability to press # on their phone, regardless of their location - at home, work, abroad, Tumbuktoo - and allow door access to leave the parcel on the doormat

People won’t change anything as they’ve got their parcel

The best way to stop it is to say no

The best way to stop it is to say no I do! And it still bloody rings...

Going round in circles now lol

I need to live in non-communal living

Oh right that is a hard in then

Note it is

Hard one then

I wonder if Amazon can be told to not to use an address for other people's deliveries?

I'd contact the management company and tell them that you're changing your number and you will no longer be providing it to them as you are inundated with calls from delivery personnel for other residents on the one you've supplied them with, and based on the current situation, as no one else has provided the management company with their numbers, this will be the situation going forward.

Push it back on the management company to get sorted.

The other residents are CF as they now know that your mobile is linked to the intercom system so they don't have any pressing need to supply the management company with their mobiles as yours works fine for them!