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?

Post a copy of the takeaway menu through their door with "Order & pay for your own next time!" written in a big marker pen.

Thought of this thread today. Had a takeaway delivered. I was heading down the stairs to grab it when I heard one of the many tradesman working on my house remodel right now telling them just to leave it by the door. Unknown but accurate deliveries In action. Could have just as easily been for the wrong house and no one would have realized for hours.

Yes do it. They knew it wasn't theirs! Bt make it funny, so if your take away arrives at mine, we'll scoff it and call it quits.

If this happens again, though, pls send it to us. We had to eat broken biscuits cos we had nothing in....

Yes I would of done so before paying for another takeaway. Should they get any future parcels when they’re next not in don’t do the nice neighbourly thing and accept them!

I would go to all the Indian takeaways and get their menus / leaflets and when I had 100 of them I would put them through his letter box in one go

I do hope that poor boy didn't have to pay for his mistake. £35 is a lot to loose

Order a new one. Do stuff to it and deliver it to them

I think there is room to think it could have been a mistake.

Almost every week we see posts on Facebook where meals have been delivered to the wrong address; our town I’d undergoing a huge redevelopment thousands of new homes being built I have to say some comments are really funny, but it’s not on it is theft at tge end of tge day

What did you do in the end OP. I’d have put a note through their door saying ‘you owe us a takeaway!’ Just so they know someone has lost out by them doing that, even if they did it by accident I think they need to know.

Brilliant 🤩

A postie just posted that many people don’t have a clear number on their door so maybe this was the problem.
We need to all help out over worked delivery drivers by making our property numbers clear.

Actually I’d be making up a lovely dessert with a whole lot of laxative whisked in then getting someone to deliver them that too

@Crunchyapp

Actually I’d be making up a lovely dessert with a whole lot of laxative whisked in then getting someone to deliver them that too

And then you'd be done for attempted poisoning under the Offences Against the Person Act. Not wise.

@Pegasushaswings

What did you do in the end OP. I’d have put a note through their door saying ‘you owe us a takeaway!’ Just so they know someone has lost out by them doing that, even if they did it by accident I think they need to know.

The restaurant owes OP a takeaway. Anyone with half a brain knows that a misdelivered takeaway means that someone else is missing out.

Wow who rattled your cage @Lockheart ?

My note would be to let them know you know sort of thing, rather than completely leave it without saying anything. Also means you’re not getting into drama.

The restaurant and delivery lad are the ones missing out.

We had a meal miss-delivered here, my son accepted thinking somebody else had ordered - there are 6 of us plus teens friends so not unusual.
We’d eaten half the nachos and drank the drinks before the delivery man returned for it 30 mins later.
DH told him we figured that he wouldn’t be able to take it back from us anyway because of Covid contamination risks so we’d eaten it.
Free burritos - yum.
It was in peak Covid times in London, I think we did the real ‘owners’ a favour by not risking being contaminated by us. I’m sure they got a replacement meal.

Let it go, life’s too short

Surely you have a number on your door in a prominent place so it is easily seen. That would be the sensible thing to do.

Where I live, many many properties are up a long drive and the houses have names by the doors, sometimes obscured by hedges or ivy over the years. Often tall trees and fencing obliterate the house itself and roads have little or no lighting, being private and unadopted.
The owners often moan on social media about missing or misdelivered parcels and I'm always telling them fgs, have a clear number or house name at the edge of your property and illuminated, so that it's crystal clear for a driver to see as he passes from either direction.

^People are becoming worse with this kind of thing, I'm sure!!
Stealing shopping, parcel deliveries and takeaways!^

No, it's the fact we all order so much for delivery these days (constant takeaways, amazon/other, food shops).
More room for error in the big warehouses ( I got a complete mix up from amazon other month; had blurred my details and someone else's together) and food apps.
Couriers rushed off their feet (and/or careless).
And also we pay for takeaway food so much online now; the driver isn't stopping to check details because the food has already been paid for (they just leave or hand it over without checking).

I was also once pressured to take a delivery for a neighbour by a really antsy courier (which I did with great reluctance as we were in the middle of a bitter fight about a/s behaviour) ... then realised it was in a different street (had to ask someone else to walk it round as I'd torn my ankle). I was doing a nice thing but yes, could see the neighbour next door (who detests me, thought I was complaining for fun, and also has various petty convictions) next door assuming I was trying to nick it!

A few years back I ordered a takeout on just eat and around when it was due a delivery driver knocked on the door and gave me the bag. When he left another driver arrived with my actual meal. I then realised the first was for a neighbour, I took so long knocking on doors to find who it was for both were a bit cold by the time any of us got to eat!

I once had someone's KFC wrongly delivered to me. We'd ordered two vegan sandwiches and got given 3 family buckets. Would've been great if we weren't vegetarians.

Our mates round the corner were treated to a feast that lasted them the week lol

I would knock on the door and have a go at them. Side note: matey dinner with ex on valentines day? You're braver than I am.

I've got a similar situation but with a much higher value than a takeaway meal.
A couple of years ago one of my neighbours from possibly 12ish houses down the road intercepted my delivery of dog food. Not just any old dog food but almost £400 worth of a premium food for my cocker spaniel (6 months supply).
When I called the delivery company because my delivery hadn't arrived on the day they'd quoted, they checked with the driver who said he gave it to a couple who were walking up the street, intercepted the driver and told him I wasn't home and that I'd asked them to take it in for me. They gave the driver an even number address in my street and walked off with my huge boxes of dog food.
I told the company that for the previous year there had been no even numbers in my road (council regeneration project), plus their driver shouldn't have just handed it over to some random people in the street. I got a description of the couple and was able to work out who they were and knew that they had a dog (not a spaniel).
I knocked their door and asked them to hand my dog food over, they denied all knowledge of any delivery driver or dog food.
The delivery company accepted responsibility for giving it to someone in the street and informed the company I'd bought it from who sent out a replacement delivery.
I decided that I would catch the thieves out though and watched for a couple of weeks when rubbish was put out for the binmen. Lo and behold, the first empty bag turned up foolishly used as a rubbish bag, outside their house with identifying junk mail in it.
I photographed it and sent my evidence to the police, delivery and dog food companies and was told that something would be done about it, although I'm not convinced anything was because even now If I see them in the street, they look at me, mutter and laugh amongst themselves, as though they know that I know what they did but knowing they got away with it.