To not take this parcel in for my 'neighbour'.

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Delivery driver from well known website just knocked to ask me to take a parcel in. No problem, our neighbours and I do this a lot.

She tells me the number of the house i.e. 222. I tell her I don't know these people and that we are number 209, which house does the parcel belong to. She points to a house across the road a good 300 yards away, and says the one with the blue car in the driveway. This is my friends house.

I explain that that house is not 222, she has tried to deliver to the wrong house. She then tells me no it's not blah blah blah. I explain to her again, that my friend lives in the house she's referring to and it's not 222, it's not even close.

She then asks me if I can take the parcel anyway because she's running a bit late. I say no, I'd rather not and could she try to deliver to the right house and I tell her I'll be out til about 9pm this evening anyway and they may want their parcel before then. (True).

She then says that I could just take the parcel and deliver it myself when I come home from work. IANBU for saying no am I? She wasn't happy ...

There have been a few threads like this, once you start it becomes a problem. If the parcel goes back to source people get a bit more careful about addresses etc. The delivery people are under huge pressure and I believe some companies only pay for the number of deliveries. Iy was a stretch asking you do do this

I would be inclined to ask number '222' if they ever got their package, and if not, tell them how the delivery driver couldn't be bothered to deliver it.

We live in a little crescent that runs just behind some high rise flats. A driver once asked me to take in a parcel for a neighbour, automatically said yes as everyone knows everyone in our crescent and we take parcels all the time. It wasn't until the driver left that I realised the parcel was for someone in the high rise flats. I know they're under pressure to complete their deliveries but I'm hardly a bloody neighbour, they clearly couldn't get in the flat so decided to try the houses behind. They didn't even put a card through the person's door so she was baffled when I turned up with her parcel.

You were not being unreasonable. I always check parcels now. If I don't know them, I'm not taking it.

I felt a bit like I was being a shit neighbour, but I've no idea who lives at this house and it's nowhere near the driver said it was. I also thought that if she was unwilling to go back to the address to see if anyone was in, then she wouldn't bother putting a card through their door either.

YANBU. I was asked once and I thought they meant the NDN’s who we had an agreement with to help one another out so I took it. Transpired to be for someone on a completely different street about a 5 minute drive away, I didn’t realise until long after the driver had gone . Had to go deliver it myself as well because they’d obviously posted a note through the wrong door. Nightmare. Some couriers are useless.

I could tell she was pissed off but when I get home at gone 9 the last thing I feel like doing is traipsing around looking for some house!

I take in parcels for my immediate NDNs but no one else.

When I purchase something that includes delivery I expect the company, or their contractor, to deliver it TO ME. Not leave it with some innocent individual I don't even know 10 houses up the road.

In the same way, I don't see why I should have to get involved in someone else's private contract with a third party, when I don't know the individual concerned.