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

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cjt110 · 31/01/2019 10:08

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

I am not a fucking parcel holding service!!!!!
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Jaxhog · 31/01/2019 11:40

You have to keep saying no. I'm betting that the couriers have learnt that you are in. They will eventually stop if you keep saying no. It may take a while though.

And if you do take the parcel in, it's up to your neighbour to come and get it, not yours to take it to them. So don't.

PatricksRum · 31/01/2019 11:43

Why don't they leave it with the concierge?
I still get calls from my old intercom at my old flat which I left 8 months ago!' Angry

PatricksRum · 31/01/2019 11:46

Just read update sorry.
If the concierge isn't there don't they have somewhere to deliver the parcels?

trulybadlydeeply · 31/01/2019 11:48

Can't be that urgent if you ring 999 and don't answer the door!

Or you're now unconscious and can't let them in.

HauntedPencil · 31/01/2019 11:50

I'm more than happy to take parcels in for neighbours and often do.

I would not be happy to be Amazon's point of contact for a whole block of flats though.

Mitzimaybe · 31/01/2019 11:55

Your note is far too long. Most people will not read it. Just a big heading DELIVERIES and then your first paragraph.

Don't bother with the rest of it - you say everyone has already received about 5 letters asking them to do that, which they have ignored, so they aren't going to suddenly take notice now. Your problem is the delivery people ringing your number so just address your very simple message to them - if it's not for me, don't ring my number.

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cjt110 · 31/01/2019 11:55

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. Then I can't buzz anyone in - guests of shopping and have to go downstairs to let them in...

If the concierge isn't there don't they have somewhere to deliver the parcels? There is a foyer where it can be left.

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drspouse · 31/01/2019 11:56

How do you normally buzz people in, when you are in the flat?
And do you actually NEED to buzz people in when you aren't?

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cjt110 · 31/01/2019 11:58

How do you normally buzz people in, when you are in the flat? Via my mobile phone pressing the # key.
And do you actually NEED to buzz people in when you aren't? So that a parcel, in the rare fucking occurrence it's for me/my DH , can be left on my doorstep.

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AdoraBell · 31/01/2019 12:00

Haven’t RTFT but as it comes to your mobile the simplest thing could be - sorry, I’m not at home, try the addressee

YANBU with the sign though.

drspouse · 31/01/2019 12:05

Can you buzz people in via a door intercom, presumably that's how the other people do it?

I would just disconnect the mobile, use the door intercom, and not worry about my parcels, if that's the case.

Nanny0gg · 31/01/2019 12:05

How do your neighbours have visitors if they haven't left their mobile with the service?

DontCallMeCharlotte · 31/01/2019 12:17

How do your neighbours have visitors if they haven't left their mobile with the service?

My question precisely!

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cjt110 · 31/01/2019 12:18

@drspouse No. The door intercom became obsolete so they changed it for this new system.

@Nanny0gg No idea..

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cjt110 · 31/01/2019 12:19

You can only gain entry by being buzzed in (Mobile rings and you dial # to allow people in) or by entering an access code which is for residents only.

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drspouse · 31/01/2019 12:21

So then the other residents must have provided a mobile, or never have visitors?

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cjt110 · 31/01/2019 12:23

@drspouse... As I said, I have no idea.

If they have provided a number, they aren't answering it and the couriers are just then dialling random apartment numbers

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drspouse · 31/01/2019 12:26

Why not try buzzing them to see?

Ollivander84 · 31/01/2019 12:42

@trulybadlydeeply I would hazard a guess both of them weren't. My empathy wears off when she goes in ambulance and he goes following behind in the car

StarJumpsandaHalf · 31/01/2019 12:42

My note would say DELIVERIES NB #105 can only deal with calls related to #105.

I also answer unknown numbers with 'X's phone' and if I don't want to engage 'sorry they're not available, can I take a message?'

If there's not a simple solution then you have to keep batting them away I'm afraid.

BlancheM · 31/01/2019 12:46

I can see why the other residents haven't signed up to the mobile system, it sounds like a pain in the arse.
When I lived in a flat, if you were in then you physically buzzed someone up, if you were out then obviously they weren't getting in. None of this aggro.
Like your sign though.

MyKingdomForBrie · 31/01/2019 12:48

I bet most people have left their number, they're just at work so don't answer their phone. I wouldn't answer personal mobile calls at work unless it was something I was expecting eg call back from the dr.

All you can do is the note as you have done and always saying no to every request to open the door. They'll stop asking you in the end.

BlancheM · 31/01/2019 12:49

Wait a min, didn't you say that if you're out, you can accept your deliveries by using your mobile to buzz them in, then your delivery is left on your doorstep?
So why aren't your neighbours' deliveries left on their steps? Can't you say, 'I can let you in this time, but you must leave the parcel on neighbour's step and not with me'?

BWcastle2000 · 31/01/2019 12:56

On an old fashion entry system with a phone on the wall, you can switch it to private so it does not sound when someone presses your number. Can you do that with your system? Log in and switch it to silent, unless you know someone is visiting?

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cjt110 · 31/01/2019 13:07

Wait a min, didn't you say that if you're out, you can accept your deliveries by using your mobile to buzz them in, then your delivery is left on your doorstep?
So why aren't your neighbours' deliveries left on their steps? Can't you say, 'I can let you in this time, but you must leave the parcel on neighbour's step and not with me'? Yes the whole point is so that we can accept deliveries when we're out but why should i do so for others? I don;t know if they're expecting a parcel or not... could be a raving nutter of an ex (far fetched I know) but I let in those I know I'm expecting... fuck anyone else lol

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