Neighbour stole my delivery?

[Eleanr]

Have NC as I don't want this linked to my other posts. Could be outing.

I ordered a £600 item online. Normally when I order expensive items I have to give a code, which is sent via email, to the delivery driver.

I was out today and got an email to say my package had been delivered. There was a picture included, which was very obviously my neighbour.

I thought, great, that's fine! We often take parcels in for each other. When I went to collect it from her she denied all knowledge. I was a bit flustered trying to take the dogs/ shopping inside so I just said "oh okay there must be some mistake" and went into my house.

Now I've looked closer at the pic just to make sure and it's definitely her house, she must have jt!

What would you do? I don't want to accuse her of stealing, but.... ?

Come on OP, at least give us proof of life, even if there is no update

Oooh I'm so invested in this now.

@FMLpassthegin

I watched a DpD driver deliver a parcel to my designated safe place that you agree to IF you aren't in,,,, well he delivered it, took a photo and I watched him then collect it back up to put in his van with him - I ran out the front door and said '"it's ok I am home you would know if you'd knocked? Please can you hand me my parcel?" He did and I wish I'd recorded his van details as this must go on a lot

I watched an Amazon driver pick up my parcel from his passenger seat, look at it, put it back down and try to deliver only DH's parcel. I challenged him and showed him my Amazon app that showed I was waiting for a high value parcel with a code needed for delivery. He was adamant he didn't have anything else for us, I said OK then, I'd contact Amazon as their app showed it was there...Then miraculously ten minutes later he was back at the door claiming he'd just found it in the van and his system hadn't flagged it before then. I've never had Amazon split deliveries to the same addresss, they always come at once.

Look on your local gumtree and see if she has got your new item up for sale.

@Jux

Why were you so apologetic in the beginning? You shouldn't pussy-foot around under those circumstances especially when you're doing it by text. You knew she'd got it and that she lied to you when you went to get it so you become v matter of fact.

This is the photo the driver took when he delivered it. Your door is open and I can see your carpet. The box has XXX all over it. The company have sent me their copy of the delivery pic which is the same as this one. Someone clearly opened the door and took the parcel, at your house.

That's it. That's all you need to have done. She would probably respond with something like her sis was here and put it in the kid's room under the bed/sent it through to Narnia, and now she's found it, come and get it, sorry. You'd know she's lying but who cares? If you're cheerful and friendly when you pick it up, pretending you believe her, you might even salvage a distant/civil relationship.

It might not be too late.

Hmmm, the thing is with this, is what if said neighbour genuinely has NOT got this parcel. If it were me, and a photo of a parcel on my doorstep was shown to me, and I hadn't seen it (coz it has been nicked,) and the neighbour continually hounded me, I'd call the police MYSELF.

Tread carefully @Eleanr Just coz the package was there (on her doorstep,) that does NOT mean she has it. You need to contact the seller. Or call 101 if you want and report it as a theft. Doubt you will ever see it again though sorry...

I bumped into the Amazon delivery person on my dog walk, having been sent a photo of my item ‘delivered’. I asked her where she’d delivered to. Turns out it was down a neighbour’s alley, totally out of sight. They keep doing this, apparently our door has no number on it, despite the large plate with a number next to the outside light.

I hope the OP gets her parcel, such a shame of her silly neighbour to sour neighbourly relations. Too late now, but going round immediately would have been best, here’s the photo sent to me just now with a date stamp.

@HelloFrostyMorning the picture shows the neighbour’s carpet, door open, the parcel wasn’t just left on the doorstep.

I really feel like delivery drivers should have body cams as standard now, this whole "you weren't in/we delivered it to some random door/its 'gone missing'" just happens so much that could be resolved with a quick "lets just have a look at this delivery, shall we?"

@Pootlepoodle

That’s a moo point

I hear ye!

[quote Cherrysoup]@HelloFrostyMorning the picture shows the neighbour’s carpet, door open, the parcel wasn’t just left on the doorstep.[/quote]
No, but we have scenarios on here where a photo was taken but then the parcel redelivered to a different neighbour or location.

🍿. I keep losing threads I’m interested in, like the missing laptop/cat feeding thread and the more recent ‘agreed to sell uncle btl flat and he went in and gutted it without paying for it first’ thread. I wake up thinking about these and kick myself when I lose them!

I wonder what percentage of packages go missing?

In the last two years most of our shopping has been online for delivery. We've had just the one parcel (a monthly subscription of cans/bottles of beer worth about £30) go missing, although it was in the lead up to Christmas, so perhaps not unexpected.

And actually very few parcels just left on the doorstep, thankfully. By far the majority of couriers knock and hand over the packages in-person.

Just placemarking

Here for the update. I'm gobsmacked at the cheek of it, like how can they think they'll get way with it

We've had similar with a spate of smaller Amazon items that went missing, mostly Xmas gifts/books, so quite a lot. Our student neighbour denied all knowledge. Amazon refunded or replaced

3 years later we had a knock on the door from new students. They'd found a cupboard full of missing parcels in their hall & were handing them all back to neighbours

Shamelessly placemarking, I don’t want to miss an update

@IntermittentParps

Yes, but if that was the case the neighbour would have explained that to OP, like the poster upthread did, not deny any knowledge of the parcel being delivered.

@MuchuseasaChocolateTeapot

🍿. I keep losing threads I’m interested in, like the missing laptop/cat feeding thread and the more recent ‘agreed to sell uncle btl flat and he went in and gutted it without paying for it first’ thread. I wake up thinking about these and kick myself when I lose them!

@MuchuseasaChocolateTeapot, the thread about the uncle ripping out the BTL flat was taken down at poster's request due to the fact she was taking legal action and was concerned about privacy.

You can keep track of favourite threads by clicking on "Watch this thread " at the the top of the page and then saving the last post so that it takes you to the last post you were up to. Or of course clicking on "see all Op's posts". If you already know this stuff, please ignore me.

I wonder what percentage of packages go missing?

Aside from that one package I've had otherwise successful deliveries.

Another weird one was my parcel got set to delivered on the day it was supposed to arrive but nothing came, I was up early (6am) the next morning and the driver was trying to poke it through my letter box

@Tohaveandtohold, @Eleanr
Just add the thread to your watched threads or bookmark it.

[quote OchonAgusOchonOh]@Tohaveandtohold, @Eleanr
Just add the thread to your watched threads or bookmark it.[/quote]
@Eleanr should have been @MuchuseasaChocolateTeapot. Sorry Eleanr. For some reason cutting and pasting a name autocorrects to another name sometimes.

OP never answered the point of how the packaging was covered with the brand name but this somehow wasn't visible on the photo. Hmmm....

Any update OP? Dying to know if she's backed down. What a cheeky so and so she is!!!

Shamelessly place marking 😂

Could she be right, has the delivery driver used an old picture and stolen the item?

@Quirrelsotherface

OP never answered the point of how the packaging was covered with the brand name but this somehow wasn't visible on the photo. Hmmm....

Did she say it wasn't visible on the photo? I missed that.