To ask what to do with this parcel?

[DoomPoodle]

DD took a parcel in about 3 weeks ago for a neighbour a few doors down. Neighbour has not collected the parcel. We have knocked on at various times of day/evening and no answer, and also put a note through the letter box asking them to collect it.
Mutual facebook friend has sent neighbour a message which was read but not replied to.

There's no return address. It's in packing for a particular parcel company, but I've messaged them twice with the tracking no. and they've not replied either.
Parcel is big enough to be in the way, and has a strange smell emanating from it. (Smells a bit like dog treats, but it's quite strong).

Any suggestions as to what I should do with it?

Lob it in her garden, tell her it's in her garden and that you're not taking any more parcels in for her.

It's smells, it could be ruddy anything going off.

I would once you sort with delivery company returning it, put a note through (ideally with a copy of proof of return) saying that due to not being collected you have returned her parcel.

I realise she's not collecting it, which is why I'd like to return it to sender.
OK, well it's only taken fifty-odd posts Hope the delivery company gets back to you soon.

If I were you, I would so want to print a please collect your parcel today from no 13 or it gets returned.
And stick it over the key hole in the door.

I dont understand this thing of leaving parcels with a neighbour.. we dont do that in aus... if we aren't home they leave a note to say they called and we have to pick up our parcel at the local post office at our convenience. If they then have to leave another note within a week and its still not picked up they post it back to sender.

The neighbour thing generally works well for me and my neighbours; none of us refuse to answer the door/leave parcels uncollected for weeks on end, and we all thank each other politely for taking things in. I must be really lucky and perhaps unusual, judging by the knots people on MN get into over parcels.

I'd open it.

I dont understand this thing of leaving parcels with a neighbour.. we dont do that in aus... if we aren't home they leave a note to say they called and we have to pick up our parcel at the local post office at our convenience. If they then have to leave another note within a week and its still not picked up they post it back to sender.

this was how it always was in the UK.
you couldn't collect on the same day as it was still on its way bakc to the sorting office.
Office hours 9-5, so tough luck if you work
Saturday morning maybe open until 12 if you are lucky.
One sorting office per town, so sometimes involved a half and hour trek across town.
Queue for an hour or more as everyone else wants their parcel too.

And all that was before internet shopping, when everything went by mail.
Nowadays it is mostly amazon, hermes and other couriers.

I love the fact that you can specify where to leave a parcel (in the porch/over the gate etc)
In our street we are all nice and take in each others parcels. I always tell the delivery person to put a note through their door, so they know I have it, and then leave it up ot them to collect.
Always collected same evening.

When it works, it is great. When it doesn't, it is pants

It's always DHL/Hermes etc that leave parcels with neighbours. The Royal Mail usually takes it back and leaves a card, but our local posties know I'm usually in and will ask me it take in next door either side, which I don't mind at all. They're nice people and take in my parcels.
On this occasion courier said would I take a parcel for next door but one (yes, she's nice) but after he left and I looked at the address it's 10 doors down.

And just to clarify, I don't think there is anything rotting in the package, I think it's some sort of dog chews. The smell like the stuff my dad used to give his dog for a treat. Slight fragrance of pet shop!

Three weeks and you've still not chucked it over her fence despite the "read" message?

She's taking the piss. Get your friend to send one more message saying it's in her back garden. Then chuck it over and refuse parcels for her in the future.

The posties where I live now always leave parcels in my greenhouse which is super convenient for me, I hate it when they get sent back to the sorting office. I used to take parcels in for my NDN’s at my old house and vice versa even though we didn’t really speak outside of this. It was convenient for us both and just made sense. It’s only shit when you get a twat neighbour like the OP’s.

I’d be inclined to just leave it on their doorstep tbh and take a photo on your phone to prove you did it.

An update:
Parcel people are collecting the package tomorrow.
To satisfy my curiosity, and that of anyone interested, I have had a careful peek at the contents, and I can confirm it appears to be some sort of dog treat. If your idea of a treat is a dried, fur covered rabbits ear (not envy)

Lovemusic33
It annoys me that they are delivered to neighbours, I have a “safe place” registered on my amazon account but they refuse to use it.'

This ^

Its extremely annoying isnt it. I always feel the neighbours who I hardly know will think I'm a CF who has put them down as a safe place the amount of times Amazon leave parcels with them. I have rear porch selected yet the amount of drivers that ignore it.

Parcel people are collecting the package tomorrow.
Hurrah!

Ooh! From JR Pet Product?

Send them this way if they don't get picked up, we're running short of hair covered ears.

Just wondering (more hoping for your sake) that the parcel people collected the parcel last week @DoomPoodle.

How bloody rude!
I'd chuck it over the garden fence.

Sometimes I have the opposite problem and somebody has my parcel and doesnt answer the door or is out all of the time! Why take in somebody's parcel if you arent going to give it to them!? Or at least drop it by if you know you're not going to be available. It's even worse when the delivery service don't even bother posting a card