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Parcel deliveries not for me

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lesserspottedbird · 14/05/2019 16:14

Just come back and found 3 packages on my porch. Not one of them are for me. One is for next door, the other two for a lady over the road. Now I have no problem taking in parcels for others not yet home, but AIBU to mind very much that delivery drivers are just dumping them in my porch? What if they are taken by a third party? What if I am on holiday and away for 3 weeks (I am sometimes). Getting really fed up with it.

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GreenFingersWouldBeHandy · 14/05/2019 16:20

Annoying but just leave a note on your door saying 'Please do not leave packages unless for this address.'

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lesserspottedbird · 14/05/2019 16:20

I'm not wanting my home to look as though there is no one in though - and I think notes on the door do that

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DoxxedFox · 14/05/2019 16:21

That’s really weird. Why not just leave outside neighbours houses if they’re going to do that?

GreenFingersWouldBeHandy · 14/05/2019 16:21

Parcels left outside your door will do that anyway.

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lesserspottedbird · 14/05/2019 16:22

Good point!

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Hairyheadphones · 14/05/2019 16:23

Get these stickers

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lesserspottedbird · 14/05/2019 16:23

Doxxedfox even weirder (is there such a word?) - one of the neighbours whose parcel I have found today has their own enclosed porch!

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Skylucy · 14/05/2019 16:25

I had this, and when I managed to nab a delivery person and question it, it turned out my new neighbours had put my address as an "if recipient not in" alternative. They work full-timeand I'm a SAHM so have been around to take a couple of things in for them in the past, but I was miffed by this!! I corrected the delivery person then mentioned it to my neighbours. I'm not normally at all confrontational but I'm a shattered mum of 2 under 2 and my fuse is short. (And we're moving!!)

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lesserspottedbird · 14/05/2019 16:26

Hairyheadphones I like 'em but I'm not wanting to be totally unhelpful, I don't mind taking in parcels I know about, it's just this business of them being left without the courier asking me. Surely if the intended recipient isn't in and they try and leave with me, if I don't answer my door either, what mentality tells them to abandon in my porch and not in the porch if the person it is for?...madness reigns!

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lesserspottedbird · 14/05/2019 16:27

skylucy thank you I will ask my neighbour, though she is lovely and I would have thought she would ask me first, based on her normal considerate ways

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