To ignore the parcel deliveries?

[BJsHair]

Next door keeps getting parcels delivered when they’re not home to receive them. This means parcel man knocks on our door to leave them here. This means I have to stop eating my lunch, control the dogs (who are now going mental) answer the door in my prison trousers and then have parcels stuck all over my house.

We don’t even get on with these neighbours!!

AIBU to just stop answering the door unless I’m expecting something? It’s only going to get worse with Christmas coming up

Maybe the prison trousers emit an electric shock when the OP says no, hence the inability to do so.

Wondering if she's lost in all the parcels that have been delivered....

This post is hilarious! 😂

If you don't want to take the parcels in then don't. I'm always happy to take my neighbour's and grateful when they take mine. Not all of us can be home all the time and it's hard to know exactly when they will come.

FFS somebody explain the feckin' prison trousers!

Also note on door refusing all others but parcels addressed to OP.

Seriously, address the trousers.

Adding another...ooh! What are prison trousers?

If the prison trousers are because of criminal tendencies why not just keep accepting but then steal the parcels?

if this kept happening to me I think I'd probably end up in prison due to an assault on the neighbour...

endlessly ordering stuff and then being too bloody important to take the delivery is the height of arrogance. Get it sent to work or to a parcel locker, or just buy less useless crap.

put up a note telling couriers to leave the parcels on the neighbours doorstep. If they get nicked, dipstick will learn a lesson.

On the other hand I scheduled a delicious very from amazon for today as I am off, they only went and delivered yesterday and instead of leaving it like they usually do, they went to a neighbours door and they took it in. I have been to their door 4 times between 6:30 last night and now and not getting any answer.

The item I ordered is a leaving gift for a colleague and I need to take it to work tomorrow ☹️

I just put on a huge smiley face and say ' oh gosh no I'm so sorry but we all lead such different lives and rarely catch up with each other so we've all agreed not to take parcels in for each other '
It's worked for three years

Read 134 replies and I still have t found out what prison trousers are!

Has OP come back to tell us what prison trousers are? I can't see it if she did...

You know when you read a line in an OP, and you just know the entire thread is going to get completely derailed.

#prisontrousers #snappedandfarted

Don't care about parcels but need to know what prison trousers are. C'mon op!

Seriously, address the trousers

To your house, Jezebel10? Not fair - WE ALL WANT PRISON TROUSERS!!!!!!

The main problem is doors are locked even when at home and if DH has left his keys upstairs or some random coat, panic stations.

This happens ALL of the time in our house! The amount of times I've taken in a parcel through the kitchen window is just embarrassing.

I always take in parcels for neighbours. I'm of the mindset that you never know when you'll need a favour from your neighbours so you may as well stay on their good side.

OP no-one cares about the parcels - just tell us what in the bejesus are goddamn prison trousers!!!!!!!

I can never understand the fury this provokes
Usually has nothing to so with the neighbour who bought the parcel. Delivery drivers are a law unto themselves.
And they are your neighnours so it's not as If they live miles away and you have to schlep through the snow to deliver them.
Take it in and at a time convenient to you, drop it ound with a cheery hello. then when you order a parcel they might do the same for you.
When we expect our nighbours to be completely silent, never park anywhere except their own drive, never put so much as a crisp.packet in out bin despite the fact that the bin is half Empty and the bin lorry is already at the end of the street, it doesnt foster neighbourly relations
And then people come on here and bemoan the fact that there are no communities anymore and no one knows their neighbour
Prison trousers aside, Is it really that bloody hard?

Go and tell your CF neighbours you will not be accepting parcels and if they try it again you’ll keep it and deny all knowledge. Fuckin rude.

Somebody message the OP! Nobody cares about the parcels.

I work from home half of the week so I tend to find my neighbours rcels come here. Sometimes its just because the driver doesn't want the hassle of redelivery. One neighbour is lovely and two years running I've had chocs and a card at Xmas saying openly thank you for taking our parcels in. Another neighbour who's thankfully now moved out kept putting my address as an alternative without asking me - we didn't even get on! The last straw was when an armchair turned up. I started refusing them and thankfully she moved a few months later!

I’m literally just here to find out what prison trousers are?

Do I need prison trousers?

i’m only here for the prison trousers.

seriously, though, i want some black and white prison scrubs with INMATE stencilled on the back, as pyjamas. not fancy dress cheapos, so if anyone is corresponding with a murderer on death row somewhere, pls ask them to send uniform. many thanks.

We don’t even get on with these neighbours!!

^So why would you even take their parcels? Stop it then . Not hard is it

I had this all the time as I am the only poor sod at home around here. Its horrendous leading up to Christmas. I'm pretty sure the unfriendly gits around here wouldn't take mine!
Tell deliveries now before it ramps up. I had to finally do it 2 years ago as it was several times a day by different couriers!
The neighbours will learn, click + collect and piss off.

Where are you OP?
I need to know about these trousers.

I wouldn't answer the door.