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Not my parcel

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whatacarryon2018 · 23/11/2021 00:29

Hello,
Looking for advice really.
About two weeks ago a parcel arrived at my house that wasn't for me or partner. It was left on the doorstep by postie. We bought the house this year and it's also not the name of previous residents. However, I found via those online electoral roll sites that this person did in fact live here in 2016. As it was from a company (not a personal parcel) we opened it to try to find the invoice. It turns out it's some very nice beauty products from America. The address on the invoice is indeed mine and the buyer paid via PayPal.
I contacted the company who are based in California. They were most unhelpful. They said that due to data protection, they can't get in touch with the buyer and have asked me to return it to them....at my cost. It's a bloody 2kg parcel to be sent to California! I asked if they could
Provide a label and they said no but they are willing to take the parcel "off my hands" so long as I pay for it!
I've searched Facebook etc and cannot find this person. I've also expected them to turn ups jd get it but nothing! What do I do? Any further suggestions that don't involve me paying for this parcel to be returned.....

OP posts:
itsacat · 23/11/2021 10:08

@Selttan

I'd be marking it as not at this address and taking it to the post office.

You won't need to pay anything (unless UK is different, this is what we do in Oz.)

Thank you for this, this is so obvious yet it hadn't occurred to me to do this! We have a parcel which is not for either of us, I emailed royal mail who replied with a really unhelpful template answer about how they value my input and are so sorry blah blah but no solution. Will take it to the post office now
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