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Neighbour stole my delivery?

623 replies

Eleanr · 31/01/2022 19:26

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.... ?

OP posts:
YellowbellyLass · 01/02/2022 11:53

Hello, OP?

HermioneGranger999 · 01/02/2022 11:55

Dying for an update here!

daimbarsatemydogsbone · 01/02/2022 11:58

Doubt there will be an update as there are so many plot holes in this tale

theqentity · 01/02/2022 12:15

@daimbarsatemydogsbone

Doubt there will be an update as there are so many plot holes in this tale
Godamnnit i want to believe!
2022IamHavingYa · 01/02/2022 12:16

@Eleanr any updates?

daimbarsatemydogsbone · 01/02/2022 12:20

Think about it logically - what would most people do?
Either go and ask, or just take it up with the supplier.
Or you could create an elaborate tale with details that keep changing, and post it online.......

whysonasty · 01/02/2022 12:20

@daimbarsatemydogsbone

Doubt there will be an update as there are so many plot holes in this tale
Plot holes…? What do you mean? Clearly the neighbour’s goat escaped and took the vacuum on its way out. He got caught, was slaughtered for his crime and hung up on tenterhooks, along with a cow who was guilty of making a moo point and a damp squid who had no cash. The story of the missing vacuum may suck, but there are no plot holes. Probably because the goat, cow and squid are destined for the delicatessen, not the graveyard.
SoupDragon · 01/02/2022 12:34

He got caught, was slaughtered for his crime and hung up on tenterhooks

Surely in this context you mean tender hooks.

whysonasty · 01/02/2022 12:36

Sorry, I meant tender hooks because he was a much-loved goat.

Princessorange · 01/02/2022 12:42

This made my day 🤣🤣🤣

Princessorange · 01/02/2022 12:44

That should have been to @whysonasty 🤣

MuchuseasaChocolateTeapot · 01/02/2022 12:48

@RobertsRadio thank you! I’ve found watch this thread now and that’s understandable about the uncle/flat one. I wish her well, it sounded appalling. I’ll never get over what people are capable of doing to each other…

Im2022 · 01/02/2022 12:58

daimbarsatemydogsbone
Doubt there will be an update as there are so many plot holes in this tale

🤦‍♀️ Pot holes my dear. POT. HOLES.

SoupDragon · 01/02/2022 13:04

When it comes to couriers, neighbours and parcels it is very much a doggy dog world.

heyitsthistle · 01/02/2022 13:08

This is gonna turn out to be either a troll post (noooo) or a Mumsnet classic.

MadisonAvenue · 01/02/2022 13:11

@Im2022

daimbarsatemydogsbone Doubt there will be an update as there are so many plot holes in this tale

🤦‍♀️ Pot holes my dear. POT. HOLES.

?? Pot holes are what you find in a road, plot holes are what you find in a poorly written story.
AryaStarkWolf · 01/02/2022 13:12

it would be very annoying if the OP doesn't come back and update this one! Grin

NotoriousPIG · 01/02/2022 13:14

I had an argument with someone once about tenterhooks and tender hooks. They were absolutely convinced it was tender so I asked them to explain why on earth tenderness would come into it, they said it was because if you are clinging onto something really hard and having to wait a long time while clinging, your hands/claws would become sore or tender. And also because there is no such word as 'tenter'.

LagunaBubbles · 01/02/2022 13:15

Nothing would surprise me about neighbours anymore.

AryaStarkWolf · 01/02/2022 13:18

@SoupDragon

When it comes to couriers, neighbours and parcels it is very much a doggy dog world.
Grin
SnotRags · 01/02/2022 13:21

Now I want to know what happens …

PepeSilviaDoesNotExist · 01/02/2022 13:30

@Im2022

daimbarsatemydogsbone Doubt there will be an update as there are so many plot holes in this tale

🤦‍♀️ Pot holes my dear. POT. HOLES.

Grin
SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 01/02/2022 13:35

@NotoriousPIG

I had an argument with someone once about tenterhooks and tender hooks. They were absolutely convinced it was tender so I asked them to explain why on earth tenderness would come into it, they said it was because if you are clinging onto something really hard and having to wait a long time while clinging, your hands/claws would become sore or tender. And also because there is no such word as 'tenter'.
I hope you told them that a tenter is a frame on which woollen cloth is stretched to dry, so that it doesn't shrink during the drying process, @NotoriousPIG - and that the hooks with which the cloth was fastened to the tenter are called tenterhooks - and that these words and items have been in use as early as the 14th century.
SoupDragon · 01/02/2022 13:48

Pot holes are what you find in a road, plot holes are what you find in a poorly written story.

Context is everything @MadisonAvenue

CassieJumped · 01/02/2022 13:59

I noticed a large parcel outside my opposite neighbours door at the beginning of December. I knew they would be out all day and when they did come back it would be with their young son. The parcel was obviously a Christmas gift and it had a picture of what it was on the outside. We were just heading out but I couldn't just leave it on their front so I got Dh to help me carry it inside. I text them to let them know what I had done. Turns out it wasn't due for another three weeks, they hadn't been informed of it being delivered and it was a Christmas present.
If someone dishonest had taken it they wouldn't have even known until it didn't arrive in three weeks!
Anyway they transferred it from mine to their car under the cover of darkness and hid it at the in laws!