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To want to get rid of neighbour's parcel

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MilliePotts · 30/10/2019 15:06

So two months ago I signed for a parcel for another flat. It's a big crate of beer (can tell because of the packaging and the noise it makes!) and they've never come for it.

Knocked on their door three times to no answer. It's from Hermes so they'll be able to see that it's been left here (I've put in the tracking number on the label to check). A few days - fine - but two months is just rude. I'm getting annoyed seeing it in my (not large) hallway.

Not sure where I stand on this. If I leave it outside their door and it gets nicked, it'll still have my name as the one who signed for it!

OP posts:
JavaQ · 30/10/2019 15:36

use it to drown snails in the communal garden. They love beer.

yummychoccy · 30/10/2019 15:38

Just leave it outside their flat?

Expressedways · 30/10/2019 15:40

Stick a note through the door saying you have it and they’re welcome to collect it by x date or you’ll be disposing of it (drink it, give it to a friend, throw it out). You can’t be expected to keep it indefinitely- 2 months is ridiculous, I would have done this after 2 weeks! But they might not have the tracking number and if you’ve been round 3 times and missed them but not left a note, they might not know you have it. A delivery company (I forget who) once told me my package was with ‘Mr Bridges’ with no flat number. There were 70 flats in the building so I had to wait for him to come to me.

diddl · 30/10/2019 15:47

It does seems as if they don't know about it, doesn't it?

I would usually say that it's up to them to collect-although I suppose it's possible that they've tried?

WotchaTalkinBoutWillis · 30/10/2019 15:48

Some delivery firms don't always leave cards, so you don't have a clue whether you've got a parcel or not!
Definitely stick a note through the door, I bet they don't even know about it!

lazyarse123 · 30/10/2019 15:48

Drink it and deny all knowledge. My friends daughter just got a message from Hermes to say that her parcel had been delivered to her mums address and had been signed for. Unfortunately her mum was at work with me so had to rush off and see if it's sat on her doorstep. £100 of christmas presents so I really hope it's there. Hermes are absolutely crap.

AssassinatedBeauty · 30/10/2019 15:49

Just leave it outside their flat, knock and if they don't answer post a note through.

IwantedtobeEmmaPeel · 30/10/2019 15:49

You don't need to carry it up and down the stairs each time, just put a note through their door saying it needs to be collected by a certain date or you will e getting rid.

QueSera · 30/10/2019 15:57

Why haven't you gone more often to knock on their door? You don't need to carry the beer up, just tell them to come down to your flat to get it.
Knock on their door every day, several times a day; put notes through their door. You can't be too annoyed by the parcel, if you've only knocked 3 times in 2 months.

DarlingNikita · 30/10/2019 15:57

Note through the door from you, collect by a certain date or you will dispose of it

Either this or leave it outside their building (as opposed to climbing up two floors with it).

DarlingNikita · 30/10/2019 15:58

Why haven't you gone more often to knock on their door?
Maybe the OP has a life and is busy/doesn't want to go round every day, several times a day. Hmm Grin

ElinoristhenewEnid · 30/10/2019 16:00

Hopefully your neighbours will see this on mumsnet - they must be mumsnetters because this is only place where it is considered normal to not answer your front door unless you are specifically expecting somebody!!! Grin

QueSera · 30/10/2019 16:01

Maybe the OP has a life and is busy/doesn't want to go round every day, several times a day.

No need to be rude. I'm sure OP has a life - but if a crate taking up your hallway is annoying you so much, walking up two flights of stairs to put a note through their door shouldn't take too much time out of one's busy life. If OP is too busy to do that, not sure how she had time to come on MN to complain.

TooMuch87 · 30/10/2019 16:02

They're two floors up so carrying the crate up and down the stairs isn't fun - hence only 3 trips. Any time I pass I do look to check for lights being on.

Why don't you just knock during the day and then if they're in they can come down and collect it? Waiting until night time to see if the lights are on and then lugging the crate up and down the stairs in the hope they answer seems like an awfully hard way of doing things.

User12879923378 · 30/10/2019 16:03

Are they still living there? Maybe they've moved out and don't realise that the parcel has arrived. I'd ring the company that produces the beer, personally, because if the crate has been reported missing they might have replaced it or refunded the cost of the booze. They might collect it (or they might write it off and tell you to keep it!).

TryingToBeBold · 30/10/2019 16:08

Just knock on the door a few more times. You don't need to lug the crate up and down the stairs. Just knock and ask them to come get it?

Lunde · 30/10/2019 16:12

Not all delivery companies leave cards or notes so they may not know that you have it.

If it was a gift to them then they may not even be expecting it and have no tracking information.

Leave a note and see what happens

DarlingNikita · 30/10/2019 16:14

walking up two flights of stairs to put a note through their door shouldn't take too much time out of one's busy life.
That's not what I was talking about, was it? Confused I was specifically talking about the suggestion of going round 'every day, several times a day'.

coconutpie · 30/10/2019 16:15

Bring the crate up to their door and leave it outside their door. Job done.

OnlyFoolsnMothers · 30/10/2019 16:15

Id just leave it outside their door

PrincessHoneysuckle · 30/10/2019 16:17

2 months? Drink it

SnuggyBuggy · 30/10/2019 16:19

Leave it outside the door, ring the bell and leave. You aren't a storage unit

UnfamousPoster · 30/10/2019 16:24

Are you on the Ground Floor OP? Can you leave it near the front door with a note stuck on top for them to see? Even if they don't see it I'm sure you can guarantee it will be gone within the day!

Jux · 30/10/2019 16:26

They want you to store it for the until Xmas when they'll come to collect it. Either drink it and say you left it outside their door "months ago - did you expect to store it for you?" or leave it outside their door now,

CanuckBC · 30/10/2019 16:26

There are so many posts of angst over packages left by carriers at peoples houses! This makes me so happy yet again it doesn’t happen hear! If you are not home a note is left and you have to go pick it up. Don’t pick it up, within x amount of time a letter/text/email whichever is sent by the carrier to say pick it up or it will be sent back!

None of this going back and forth by neighbours! It’s not their job or worry to deliver the damn package! It’s the company that is frequently paid good money to do so🤯

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