Can family members drop off presents if you they don’t close by?

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By close by I mean my family live about 10 miles away.

It’s DS’s birthday soon. A couple friends and mil have sent gifts directly to our house from where they ordered from.

My family want to drop things over because they’d already bought things before lockdown. By this I mean just drop it over and leave outside the door, not socialising with them and obviously I’ll wipe things over once it’s unwrapped - I’m not sure how I can sanitise wrapping paper 🤣

Is this okay? Is making a 10 mile journey just for children’s birthday presents okay? It’s not me making the journey but my family. I don’t want them to get in trouble. I don’t expect gifts for dc but they like to do It.

Would aibu to ask if they dropped it all off a few days before his birthday? So I can leave in my car or the garage and if any virus is on them it will hopefully die in the few days before he opens 😭🙈

As long as you are following PO guidelines and not trying to post anything illegal I don't think your PO can do what they're doing.

Just catching up with peoples comments about this. It's our village Post Office, the owner knows us all really well. He is keeping the Post Office open but only for essential post. I don't know if what he is doing is allowed under PO regulations but he is very clear about it.

Of course its ok.

The item will be handled by a lot less people than posting it.

• Trip to the post office
• Collected by royal mail staff
• Into the sorting office handles by more staff
• Out for delivery, handled by another person

Vs one person drops the gift off. Though 10 miles is too far. I wouldn't drive that distance under lockdown at all.

In these circumstances, I'd go to the post office and send it while I'm out doing my food shopping or my daily walk.

Yep i don't see a problem

Just do it.

I don't know if what he is doing is allowed under PO regulations but he is very clear about it

I suspect it’s actually illegal and he’d stand a good chance of losing the post office for this.

@Alsohuman there are an awful lot of complaints about it on the FB page of the next village (much bigger village but no PO).