To send a note to the cheeky fuckers who just stole our Valentines takeaway?

[StolenBhuna]

NC for obvious reasons.

We have just had to wait more than an extra hour for our delivery because the first one they sent was apparently accepted by the occupier when the teenaged driver knocked at the wrong house. The houses do look alike so mistakes happen and the weather is bad tonight.

I rang the restaurant manager when tracking said it was delivered (it wasn’t). He gave me the usual “on its way” flannel you get from managers who don’t know what’s happened. So I said don’t worry. Busy night. We will wait.

He rang back half an hour later, outraged himself at what he has realised and told me “naughty number blah-di-blah took it, my driver knocked the wrong door”. I didn’t ask which house. I didn’t get a chance. He obviously wanted me to know he wasn’t lying. So he told me specifically and now I know.

Luckily a matey dinner with ex instead of a romantic curry night.

Do I pop a note along to point out its not nice to take stuff you haven’t paid for? Just so they know?

No excuse for stealing food!

I had a just eat drover ring my doorbell repeatedly at 3am a few weekends ago. Right house number, wrong street.

He was very apologetic- j wouldn’t have dreamt of taking the food.

Bit CF to expect someone else, who had been minding their own business before an unordered and unwanted takeaway be was thrust upon them to spend their Valentine's night ringing round, sorting things out and redelivering food. 100% the problem of the takeaway/delivery service, who should be redelivering fresh food or refunding OP. If it had happened to me, I'd leave it on the doorstep and put a note on our street WhatsApp group, but beyond that I wouldn't be running around fixing the delivery companies problem. I'd chuck it in the morning if no one had collected.

An example of how this goes, for everyone who thinks this is certain theft (paraphrased from an actual conversation with my housemates two weeks ago when an erroneous brunch order was delivered to us):

A: Guys, whoever ordered food it's just arrived!

A: It's on the kitchen table, it's going to get cold! Who ordered food? It's from X.

A: Steve, is it yours?

Did they definitely take it in.

Doorbell once rang around 12pm whilst I was in a work meeting so i ignored it and completely forgot to have a look when my (very long) meeting finished. Opened the door at 4pm to do school run and found a McDonalds take away sitting on the doorstep, looked back at doorbell video to see it had been delivered 4 hours ago. No address on the package either for me to contact intended recipient and let them know.

Ended up disposing of it as consisted of burger and ice creams which had been sitting in summer heat on doorstep for 4 hours and no longer fine to eat

I really hope you haven't embarrassed yourself by doing this, OP.

@Chichimcgee

I’d tell the restaurant to go and invoice them!

Really!

I'd leave the restaurant to run its own business! They replaced the OP's order, it's none of her business what they do about where it was mud delivered to or how they deal with it!

As a pp said, could well have been taken in error. For instance, wife is in the bath, husband takes in delivery, thinks the wife has surprised him, dishes it out. Then too late.

For a time, I ran a takeaway.

In my experience most people are honest.

Sometimes the driver goes to the wrong address, and 99% of the time the person is honest and says it's not theirs.

On a couple of occasions someone took in the delivery as they thought their partner must have ordered it, and rang us shortly afterwards to say they had a takeaway that wasn't theirs.

On occasions the wrong address is supplied (it's surprising how many people know what street their girlfriend lives on, but not the house number - this is relevant on valentine's Day).

I can't remember a time where a delivery just disappeared into a black hole through dishonesty though. The general public is more honest than I would have assumed before I did that job!

I had a spate of someone delivering takeaways to my home even though they didn't live there. Must have happened about 3 or 4 times.

I always sent the takeaway driver away though because it was KFC and I'm vegetarian

Maybe it was an accident my teenage kids would open the door and take in the take away so would dh as he would of assumes i ordered it
Once taken and inside it can't be returned

@BitterTits well thats breaking data protection they have no right to give you someones telephone number

Jeez what a horrible post. Just make your own dinner. The hassle and the fact you have had to post about it.quicker to make your own meal.

I think you've missed the point......,

Not takeaway but I had someone "steal" my beauty treatment once... First world problem.

I was on a very long awaited spa weekend.

Went to reception to book in (5 mins early), was told to wait on a chair by treatment rooms.

10 mins after treatment due to start I go back to reception as no one came to get me, they check with therapist. Someone else had responded to my (full) name before I got there and was in getting my treatment!

I got my booked treatment but obviously had to wait. I could understand if I was late - but the therapist had seen someone sat there, asked if they were bumjuice and they said yes.

How does that happen? It's not like I've got a commonly used name either.

Wow. My husband would have been at their door within minutes, reading the riot act. They would never do it again, that's for sure. What's with being so scared?

I don't get it, either Blonde. I'm not a remotely scary woman but when I'm hungry, have been kept waiting, am out of pocket...don't mess with what's mine 😂 when I confronted my (clearly lying) neighbour, it was at least satisfying calling him out. 'Oh well it's ok cos I gave the driver £20' no you didn't. 'Oh, I've been thinking...I ordered a takeaway as well' oh aye, where is it then? 'Mine didn't arrive' how unbelievable haha!

@Versaillaise

You could send them an anonymous valentine's day card: Roses are red, violets are blue, I hope you enjoyed my vindaloo

Versaillaise is the best response so far.

They will know you know who they are.
But they won't know who you are :-)

@Nosnogginginthekitchen

Order them a bunch of cash on delivery takeaways as payback

Or not, because then you're fucking over a small business for no reason whatsoever. What a stupid idea.

@rattlemehearties

This is really annoying. But it might have been taken in error (e.g. one housemate opened the door, assumed other housemate ordered takeaway, too late to hand it back once driver left). So I'd just let it go

Off topic; but my daughter who did French at university, more than once had her Amazon parcels opened by other people in multiple occupancy houses only to have them leave the contents when they realised it was a book in a foreign language.

We ordered pizza for delivery as I was shattered and it was to make my life a bit easier. 1 1/2 hours later it still wasn't with us. I checked the order and it said it had been delivered! My dh phoned them up and spoke to the delivery driver (a cocky know it all) who was adamant he had delivered to the correct address, until he said it was in a one way street. Wrong! There are two roads here which have similar sounding names, one is a two way road where we live and one is a one way street which is where he delivered it to. They redid our order and he delivered it to the right address this time, and he did apologise.
I would love to send a letter to these thieves, as that is what they are, but don't have the guts to.

I think very few people would actually knowingly take in a delivery that wasn't theirs.

It too has happened to us.
Last week I informed the DC (teenagers) I wasn't cooking as me and DP were going out and would either eat out or get a takeaway later. I then left money for the DC if they wanted to order something between them instead of cooking.
1 said he would get a takeaway and would ask the others. I thought no more of it. Just before I left a takeaway got delivered. I accepted it, put it in the kitchen and shouted DS his food was here and then I left.
He texted me about 10 minutes later with laughing emojis saying none of them had ordered anything yet. I had no idea where it had come from and only a receipt in the bag no name or address.

Genuine mistake. I do hope though that any neighbours don't think we intentionally stole their food!

Also as valentines, I expect alot of people had ordered takeaway, so took it in thinking it was theirs. They were probably moaning to the shop about their order being wrong.

I think as getting deliveries etc becomes more common, it’s more likely to happen, especially if they think someone else in the household has ordered it, or it’s been sent as a gift.

Although I did once have my neighbour come over and apologise as she’d got a delivery ordered and on the drop down managed to select my address not hers! When it arrived I sent them down the road, but if she’d not said anything I’d have assumed my partner or lodger had ordered it and taken it in!

I nearly took someone else's pizza.

I wasn't well, I was in bed early and the door went, I ignored it, they rang the bel and then knocked and knocked.

I staggered out of bed, opened the door and snapped, "Not for me"

I can beat that. Some fucker stole our BED yesterday!!!! Some woman called Ruth signed for our brand new bed and is probably lying in it now like that cat that got the cream feeling chuffed that she’s got a ‘free’ bed!! I just can’t believe that someone would accept delivery of a bed that they haven’t ordered and not say a word! I’m not accepting it, even if they go and collect it as I consider it second hand now. Cheeky cow.

@BlondeDogLady

Wow. My husband would have been at their door within minutes, reading the riot act. They would never do it again, that's for sure. What's with being so scared?

Easy to mock someone else for being scared when you're hiding behind your husband!

@PanchoBarnes I got the money refunded pretty quickly (because I guess the bottle could just go back on the shelf) and ordered another one!