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Next doors pissing parcels WIBU

226 replies

Lovelost01 · 25/06/2019 20:40

Moved almost 3 months ago, waiting to go back to uni so I’m in maybe 60% of daytime hours. Next door is also a single mum and doesn’t work. I hear her in most of the time I’m in.

In the 3 months I’ve lived here, I’ve had delivery people knock for her packages to be left here between 1-3 times a week. Every week. She never introduced herself, I have seen her a few times over the garden fence and said Hi, tried to initiate chit chat when seeing her on the front but she doesn’t seem to want to talk (completely understand that).

Out of all these parcels she has never come to pick them up, the delivery people always say they will put a note through her door so she knows they’re here. I’ve always waited a day or two then taken them round, usually when there’s a few.

On Thursday I accepted a package for her then another man appeared, they brought a huge really heavy box with a picture of a chest of drawers on! He said he was pretty sure he heard someone in the house but no answer so I took it anyway. It’s far too heavy for me to even move slightly. So it’s been here since thursday and she still hasn’t come round. I put a note through her door this morning asking her to come get it and she put one back through mine (?!) saying she can’t because it will be too heavy and she’s a single mum. I knocked for her again knowing she was in but she didn’t answer. It’s definitely too big and heavy even if I suggested we both try to move it to hers we probably couldn’t. WIBU to call the couriers back and tell them I want to return it?! Would they even do that? I can’t open my front door properly because its so huge, cant move it elsewhere!

OP posts:
Wobblywibblywoo · 27/06/2019 21:42

Don’t accept any more parcels what a cf

FelixFelicis6 · 27/06/2019 21:46

What a CF. What’s happened now?

NoFucksImAQueen · 28/06/2019 07:47

come back @Lovelost01

hoxtonbabe · 28/06/2019 08:00

I had to laugh at this level of CF! What’s being a single parent got to do with not picking your deliveries?!?

You need to stop signing/taking in her deliveries. I stopped doing it for my neighbors years ago after I took one in just before going on holiday, and there’s me thinking it would be picked up later that day or the next, but no, said neighbor had me chasing them and taking it round as I didn’t want to leave for 2 weeks and I had their parcel.

If it’s for the other 4 in my block then as long as they don’t need a signature then I buzz delivery man in and he leaves it by their door, but if it’s not for neighbors in the block or needs a signature then I simply tell them I’m not doing it and I don’t buzz them in/tell him to try someone else.

MrsElijahMikaelson1 · 28/06/2019 08:01

Ending?

PippiDeLena · 28/06/2019 08:11

@Lovelost01 Did you block her door with the chest of drawers?

Hairyheadphones · 29/06/2019 19:32

Is it still in your home?

sneakypinky · 29/06/2019 19:52

Ooh what happened?

SophieGiroux · 01/07/2019 22:16

@Lovelost01 any update??

WillLokireturn · 01/07/2019 22:33

Hoping you've stopped taking parcels in now. You can refuse them or ask what it is when delivery men knock. It's not your parcel and you are under no obligation to accept delivery. As she doesn't come round even when you drop note off or tell her, that alone would make me say to delivery drivers, "I don't accept parcels for number "xy". Don't care if you think she's in or not she's awful as never collects & leaves it for weeks".

Helppleaseargh · 01/07/2019 23:42

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minisoksmakehardwork · 03/07/2019 19:23
sneakypinky · 04/07/2019 10:49

Bump for an update!

lmusic87 · 04/07/2019 10:59

She's nasty, just stop taking them and stick a note on your door.

SophieGiroux · 04/07/2019 23:31

Don't you just hate stories with no ending?!

TipsyToasty · 04/07/2019 23:34

Say no to future deliveries and call the courier back to say they delivered to the wrong address

MumW · 04/07/2019 23:37

As others have said, j8st say no.
Also, it is very inadvisable to sign for something without seeing it in case the parcel is damaged.

Notcopingwellhere · 08/07/2019 08:29

How hard is it to go to your “I’m on” list, scroll to your own thread and give an update? Why are people who post on MN for advice so useless at updating?!

itsmesoitis · 08/07/2019 08:44

Get it moved to her doorstep - Done. Not your problem.

itsmesoitis · 08/07/2019 08:49

Ok - this was a while ago. My phone froze and I didn't see the latest updates. As you were...

lmusic87 · 08/07/2019 15:59

Any updates OP?

RoryGillmoresEvilTwin · 08/07/2019 21:38

I stopped taking in deliveries for my neighbour. They never collected either.

I started saying no to the drivers and after a few times they stopped trying.

I'd totally put it on the pavement outside. Cfs!

Hahaha88 · 08/07/2019 21:52

Oh FFS can't believe I read 9 pages to find OP hadn't bothered updating

SamBeckett · 08/07/2019 22:27

@Hahaha88
I have just done the same !

Come on OP update please

H2OH20Everywhere · 09/07/2019 09:05

@Lovelost01 - any update?

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