Parcel debate

[FirstTimeMummyDS88]

So yesterday at around 10am I was asked to take in a parcel for a house over the road as they weren't in, I said no problem and they put a card through saying the parcel was at my house. Around 6 yesterday evening I knocked over with the parcel and there was no answer although the car was there and living room windows open, their little girl (she's around 6) came to the door and spoke to me through the letterbox saying that she can't open the door because it's locked and her mum was in the bath. Of course that's absolutely fine and I thanked the little girl and told her to just tell her mum to knock for parcel when she's ready.

Fast forward to this morning and parcel still here, again this isn't a problem for me. I got myself and baby (14 months) ready and left around 7.15, DS at childminder at 7.30 for me to get to work for 8am, DP leaves around 7.40. I didn't knock with parcel as it's the school holidays and I didn't want to risk waking anyone. So I finish work at 2pm and go to pick up DS, we went straight to the shops and then popped into my mums for a coffee. I get in at half 3 to a not through my door with PARCEL!! In dark capital letters and underlined several times. I start getting shopping out of car and pop it in hallway and as I go back to car on driveway to get DS from his car seat the man from over the road marches over to me shouting "you've got to be fucking joking you"

I asked him not to swear at me, especially in front of my child and I'm also 13 weeks pregnant so felt quite intimidated and he just carried on screaming about how he's been knocking all morning for his parcel, where the fuck have I been all day and if I took his parcel in it's my responsibility to get it to him ASAP

Now I don't remember my mum covering the rules of taking in a neighbours parcel with me when I was a kid but am I right to think this bloke is BU?

What an asshole! How dare you get on with your own life and business and neglect your duties as the neighbourhood delivery person!! This is pretty much why I refuse to take parcels for one of my neighbours now. The neighbours on one side of us are perfectly nice and reasonable people who will come and knock on the door for their parcel when they get home and are always very grateful that we've taken in their parcels. The neighbour on the other side is a twat who for some unknown reason will not speak to me or look at me and so wouldn't collect her parcels until she could send her stupid boyfriend round and we never had a word of thanks, more a look of annoyance that we had done them a favour so I wont bother for them in future.

If I know me and DP are both in work then I get my parcels delivered to our local newsagents. Which is fantastic for hiding more new baby purchases from DP 😂😂

It is annoying but I appreciate they are doing me a favour as we are rarely in to Coll's t parcels

Assuming you mean to collect.

Why are you ordering online then? If you won’t be there to collect it. You must know that every time you order something, it will likely have to be delivered to a neighbour. You’re using them as a concierge service.

I speak from bitter experience having lived in a flat below a woman who worked long hours - I never saw her - yet still did vast amounts of online shopping to be delivered to our shared doorbell. At home with a baby, I was tormented by the doorbell every morning with more piles of Asos and Office deliveries. Thing is, we had a shared hallway so I didn’t have to have the parcels in my flat and therefore she never had to come to retrieve them or thank me, they were just waiting there when she came home from work. Like magic. But it was me who was getting up to let the delivery person in each time.