Neighbours who don't use their correct address

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We live in a street where a 'spare' plot had extra houses built on it so the house numbers on this plot are 26a,26b and 26c. Were we have the 26 number without the letter.
All this was done years before we moved in. We don't really know the neighbours as they have a gated entry to their plot and I think maybe rent. The names have certainly changed on the post we get anyway.

The odd bit of post always goes astray and that's fine but Over Christmas it became clear that one of the lettered houses either forgets or can't be bother to use their letter in addresses as we were getting lots of their post and parcels, and I mean lots.
They were never home and never came looking so I start just marking it 'non known at this address' and 'return to sender' and putting it back in the post.

We had yet another parcel delivered the other day, heavy rain and the courier basically threw it through the door and ran. For this lettered house but again missing the letter.

Two days later we get a knock on the door, woman I've not met-
'do you have a parcel for 26.?',
I said this is 26
Oh she said as if I was being odd.
I said I have a parcel for mrs* that isn't ours.
That's mine she said I'm at 26c
So I said well it's addresses to 26 and this happens a lot. Can you please check and use your correct address in future.
She was a bit oh alright then about it.

Am I unreasonable to be irritated by her ringing my door and still thinking she is 26 When she clearly is a lettered address.

FYI whenever I've had to put addresses in websites etc 26a,b &c always come up first.

I've even had to register all the neighbours names at not at this address on the mail preference service because we were getting so much.

I gave my flat a name and registered it properly etc to help solve this issue!

Would irritate me too.

And then if she comes round, shake your head and say you've only had deliveries for your house. You haven't taken anything in for a neighbour.

She's a CF.

Any chance they might have moved to the UK from a European country? Just that in some places you can get whole blocks of flats with 50 or more apartments in one building, not individually numbered, and the postie has to deliver the post according to surname. A system which woild never work with the comparably inefficient UK, where we have hugely efficient postcodes instead. That is the only excuse I can come up with for them. If it’s not that they are either a bit dim or just pure CF.

@sleepylittlebunnies nope never. They would rather the next door but one disabled neighbour tramps down two flights of stairs to intercept the postman (which she does if she's downstairs) than get up to press the intercom

I would check your credit score if I were you. You might just find you have a lot of alias names linked to your account as they may have registered as "no.26" addresses which will link to your account.

Part of the reason I registered with the MPS is because the previous owners seemed to have about 5different businesses registered here.

I never realised what number the CF lived at as the surname is a name you would associate with a specific nationality and the couple are very British so I never put the two together.

@ClientQueen that doesn’t sound sustainable at all. Could you all get together and lobby the management company to let you have external locked mailboxes or another solution?

@ClientQueen that doesn’t sound sustainable at all. Could you all get together and lobby the management company to let you have external locked mailboxes or another solution?

We live in a road without numbers just names- so there should not be a problem. Bloke who used to live next door got done for drunk driving and suddenly his wife's insurance renewal and AA membership were addressed to our house. Then we got a HMRC letter, addressed to his company as it turned out, demanding tax returns and back tax. Accountant friend checked Companies House and discovered he had registered his company at our address. At that time HMRC had local offices and I took the letter back, along with a letter stating we had no knowledge of the company and we had moved into the house as a new build. I told the bemused customer service person that the director of the company lived in the house next door. No chance of a mistake, the house names are very different.
Twat- glad they moved.

@sleepylittlebunnies sadly the other neighbours who don't answer the door don't see this as an issue (hence them not answering) because they get their post on Saturdays

we rented our old house to neighbours son,
In the intervening 9 years, we have knocked that house down and rebuilt. Neighbour's son lives back at home with his parents.
All was well until we suddenly got lots of motoring offence letters (the return address!) when he got his licence back after losing it for DD.

I used to stick them in their mailbox, but then decided to return them to sender. Good job I did- 4 police cars turned up last week to arrest him!

This drives me up the wall too!

I live in a converted block of flats, where the address is
Flat X
22 Acacia Avenue

All my neighbours just seem to write "22 Acacia Avenue" on their deliveries, resulting in everyone from takeaway drivers to Yodel just mashing every doorbell on the front door in the hope that someone appears

Just write 'not known at this address' and put in a postbox.

Refuse any parcels in their name.

This reminds me of my in laws. They lived in a street of large houses on big plots. One house was knocked down and 4 smaller houses built on the plot. The CF developer didn't want the houses to be 15a, 15b ETC (doesn't look as good, this was an expensive area in London so houses cost a lot) , so suggested that my in laws and the other people on the street all changed their house numbers.

They all said no.

We're getting HMRC stuff for her now- that went back return to sender and I'm going to phone hmrc as well.