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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!

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CanuckBC · 30/10/2019 16:27

Here! Ugh, so many typos. Edit feature would be so nice🙃

aliensprig · 30/10/2019 16:29

@JavaQ jeez, calm down psychopath.

gamerchick · 30/10/2019 16:29

I don't understand why you havent put a note through the door.

Write one saying 'thankyou for the gift of the crate of beer that you have had delivered to my house. I really think it'll come in handy for Christmas... Cheers' with a smiley face.

I think they'll be down for it.

mencken · 30/10/2019 16:36

Hermes, like all the carriers, are staffed by underpaid and overworked drivers and have IT systems that don't work properly. These people may not know you have the item, or have been lied to saying it was delivered.

put a note through. If no reply within a week, put it outside if you can carry it.

CAG12 · 30/10/2019 16:40

Id just leave it on their doorstep with a note

Knightinslightlytarnished · 30/10/2019 16:41

If it's 2 months, they probably will have complained to the company that it wasn't received by them and have had a replacement.

CakeAndGin · 30/10/2019 16:43

We had an amazon parcel delivered by Hermes. There was no note but the update said delivered to x number. So we went to x number and there was no parcel. Contacted amazon for no delivery and they sent us a replacement item, which actually received us.

Two weeks later, neighbour at number y turned up in a huff because we’d not collected our parcel from them and they’d had to walk round with it (it was a box set of Lord of the Rings).

They’ll likely have got a replacement now and probably forgot they had a parcel so I don’t know if a note will actually cut it after 2 months.

thisneverendingsummer · 30/10/2019 16:46

@MilliePotts Not much help I know, but this is one reason why I never ever ever ever ever ever EVER take in parcels for people!

Them not being arsed to get it, AND the fact that one time the neighbour claimed it was broke (and someone in MY house must have done it.)

And another time when the neighbour claimed they never had it off us, and the company who sent it (an item worth £300) were knocking on our door asking where it was.

Fuck it. I take nothing in now - ever. And I don't want anyone taking anything in for me either.

rwalker · 30/10/2019 17:07

chances are hermes didn't ;eave a card or they couldn't read house number put a note through

Wheat2Harvest · 30/10/2019 17:10

You've knocked on the door three times in two months? That's once in every 26 days! If something has gone wrong at their end (can't access online details, texts went to wrong phone or something) they will have no idea that you have it.

I'd have put a note through their door ages ago.

underground76 · 30/10/2019 17:31

I can't believe it hasn't occurred to you that Hermes haven't told them the parcel was delivered to you?! And you've only been three times in two months to knock on their door?

Hermes are a useless delivery company and make loads of mistakes with tracking numbers etc. There's every chance your neighbour has no idea you have their parcel, has reported it undelivered and had a replacement sent to them by now. Just put a note through their door. It's incredibly obvious that they don't know you've got their beer.

nocoolnamesleft · 30/10/2019 17:33

I have been known to send a crate of beer to my brother for his birthday. If there had been no card through the door, he wouldn't have known to try to track it as he didn't order it. Hermes is unreliable at putting cards through. Bet this was sent by someone else as a present. So the neighbour is a bit miffed they never got a present from their friend/relative. The friend/relative is a bit miffed they never got thanked. You're a bit miffed it hasn't been picked up. And you're all being too bloody British to actually communicate.

TooMuch87 · 30/10/2019 17:43

I'm surprised how many people think it would be acceptable for OP to keep the parcel in this scenario. The fact it's been two months is irrelevant. She's made such minimal effort to return it that it may as well have been two days. Given the contents of the parcel it could easily be an unexpected gift or competition win, so the neighbours won't necessarily have received a replacement. You have to give them the benefit of the doubt that they didn't receive a card and that they didn't hear the door, or they were out, on the three occasions the OP knocked.

Keeping the parcel without making any further effort to return it (i.e. putting a note through the door) isn't a million miles away from theft in my view.

TheFesteredStiff · 30/10/2019 17:45

As others have said, even if the parcel shows as "delivered" on the tracking system it doesn't necessarily say where. Often a card isn't left and, if it is, it also doesn't usually specify where.

I once waited in for a parcel all day only to go out and find a card saying "left in porch". There is no porch, not on our building nor any building around here. I phoned the company that sent the parcel and they kindly sent out a replacement. The next day, I went out to find the original mysteriously left outside my door. It could only be someone who has access to the rear of the building, which is where my flat is, but to this day I have no idea who it was. Being an honest person, I contacted the senders and they arranged for the original parcel to be picked up. There then ensued yet another farce over collection.

TL:DR Please don't be a dick about it as some are suggesting. Just put a note through their door as they obviously don't know you've got their parcel.

YouokHun · 01/11/2019 10:46

You’re crediting Hermes with a decent system. The person probably had no idea where his/her delivery went. I don’t really understand why you haven’t been more active in contacting the neighbour?

dementedpixie · 01/11/2019 10:49

OP has said a couple of times that the Hermes tracking system shows that it's at her house. Stick a note through the door

SmileCheese · 01/11/2019 11:06

OP has said a couple of times that the Hermes tracking system shows that it's at her house.

Which is fab if they were expecting a parcel. In this situation it sounds like someone has kindly sent it as a gift and they don't know its coming so why on earth would they think to track it?

I'm amazed its taken you 2 months to realise putting a note through their door is a good idea, this could have easily been solved 2 months ago.

BarbourellaTheCoatzilla · 01/11/2019 11:50

I'm amazed its taken you 2 months to realise putting a note through their door is a good idea, this could have easily been solved 2 months ago.
Same. It's worrying that people can't use common sense anymore.

TryingToBeBold · 01/11/2019 18:49

I wonder if they know it's been delivered to you.. and have unsuccessfully tried to knock on your door..

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