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What to do with neighbours parcel?

155 replies

CallieCat19 · 01/11/2020 09:04

So I took in a parcel last week for our neighbour a few doors down. I waited a few days to see if they would come and collect it but they didn’t. So I assumed maybe the courier didn’t leave them a note saying where it was so have tried to drop it of to them. Weve been round and knocked four times since. I know they are in as the lights are on and their car is outside but no one has answered the door. One time My partner knocked he said they were stood right in the kitchen so he could see them but they still ignored him knocking the door.
I tried again a few days ago and when no answer left a note saying we had their parcel and to please come and collect it but still nothing,
I’m not sure what to do at this point, keep trying? Send it back? Leave it outside their house?

OP posts:
Silvershimmering · 01/11/2020 10:57

Take parcel round, bang on their widows and door until they come, if they are in.
Don’t be subtle

Silvershimmering · 01/11/2020 10:59

Our neighbours knock on the door.

We have a loud doorbell, they don’t ring it

You can depend upon it, we’re in the kitchen/ with TV on, someone is in bed, someone in the garden, someone on a call, and we don’t hear it..

Make a loud noise...😇😀

Silvershimmering · 01/11/2020 11:00

Windows above, not widows

Gobbycop · 01/11/2020 11:00

No need to over think it.

Leave on doorstep, walk away.

fairynick · 01/11/2020 11:00

I would just pop a note under their door saying “hi your parcel is at number 17 if you’re able to come collect, tried knocking but no answer :)”

BitGutted · 01/11/2020 11:00

Phone the courier get them to come and collect the parcel - that's probably the best plan

StopMakingATitOfUrselfNPissOff · 01/11/2020 11:03

I’d make sure they are in, ring the bell, leave it on their doorstep with a massive piece of paper on it saying ‘YOU’RE WELCOME’

ciaobella88 · 01/11/2020 11:05

leave it on their doorstep and dont take in again for them

SpookyNoise · 01/11/2020 11:06

Just put it in their bin and have done with it.

CheetasOnFajitas · 01/11/2020 11:06

Find yourself a high vis vest and grab your iPad, go out and knock on another neighbour’s door pretending to be from Yodel/Hermes etc and pass the problem on to someone else 😉

Jeezoh · 01/11/2020 11:09

Post a note through their door saying they need to collect it within 24 hours or you’ll just leave it on their doorstep.

Baboutheocelot · 01/11/2020 11:09

Knock on the door when you know they are in. If they don’t answer put a note through the door saying their parcel is on the door step, and leave it there.
That or just open it and keep it.

Newnamenewopenme · 01/11/2020 11:09

Where does it say it’s from?

Mummyoflittledragon · 01/11/2020 11:11

I’d send it back now and refuse to take any future parcels. Very odd. Even if they’re isolating, they could open the door or knock on find a way to contact you if they can’t leave the house.

ReneeRol · 01/11/2020 11:14

They're probably isolating. Put a note through their door.

Hippywannabe · 01/11/2020 11:14

We had a parcel left in our garden 3 weeks ago. It is for a house at the other end of ou estate. I have put a post on the fb group and bumed it a few times. It has their name and number on the fb post. Noone has been round or said that they know them. We both work full time and it has been lousy weather so I don't want to go traipsing half a mile up the road.
I figure they have probably just claimed it was never delivered and DHis desperate to open it.

(Obviously I won't open it!)

Hippywannabe · 01/11/2020 11:15

Bumped it!!!

netstaller · 01/11/2020 11:18

Knock loudly and leave it on their doorstep. If it gets wet it's their problem

Brighterthansunflowers · 01/11/2020 11:18

I’d put a note through the door saying if they don’t collect it by x date you will return to sender

You’re not their personal storage service. I also wouldn’t take in any more parcels for them

CheetasOnFajitas · 01/11/2020 11:21

@ReneeRol

They're probably isolating. Put a note through their door.
Read the OP properly. She did.
WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 01/11/2020 11:32

He told me that he has no space in his house and it suited him me to have it in my house.

How extraordinarily entitled - and to blatantly admit it too. There are lots of things I wouldn't have space for in my house, so I have a very cunning scheme: I don't order them.

As with the PP, I'm baffled as to why you would order a parcel and then not want it ASAP - or at all, apparently.

I'd be very tempted to just put it through their letterbox, ideally whilst they're there in the house. I'm sure it will fit through, even if you have to take a run-up, use a mallet or kung-fu kick or visibly rip it open and then start stuffing it through bit by bit. What valid grounds for complaint could they possibly have when they were standing there and ignored you? I bet that would have them running to answer the door.

It sounds like they're probably hoping to claim a refund for its non-arrival within the seller's specified 'allow X days before contacting us' terms (or an extra free duplicate item), before collecting it from you. Still makes no sense: if they're going to lie and defraud the seller anyway, why not take the parcel in first? The company are hardly going to send somebody out to search their house before issuing the refund, are they?

Bizarrely, they're putting all your trust in your honesty whilst apparently being thoroughly dishonest themselves as, if you wanted to, you could just keep/sell the item, deny all knowledge and then there's not a sausage that anybody could do about it.

PhilCornwall1 · 01/11/2020 11:33

Don't just leave it on their doorstep.

Why not? The neighbours are being twats, so just leave it there. Just put a note through the door saying you've left it, job done, not your problem.

If you're worried about any comeback if it nicked, just take a photo of it.

amusedbush · 01/11/2020 11:37

When I saw them in the house I'd have knocked on the window. They're being really rude - I'd have flung it into their garden by now!

Soubriquet · 01/11/2020 11:39

Just leave it on the doorstep.

Knock/ring the bell, and leave it, when you know they are in.

It’s their fault if it gets taken, and frankly I would be pissed off at their reaction

AndThatsNotRight · 01/11/2020 11:42

I'd drop off a note detailing each time you've attempted to drop off and pointing out that you saw them, so you know they're not dead, then say if they don't collect by the end of the day you will consider that they are gifting the contents to you and will open the parcel to either keep or dispose of as you see fit. I would also add that you will refuse any future attempts by delivery companies to deliver to your property for them in the future.

Their behaviour is incredibly rude and if they don't collect it that day, keeping the item is the least you deserve for the quite incredible lengths you've gone to in attempts to get it to them- way over and above what I'd have done.