Neighbour knocking to find parcel

[Dotdotdot21]

Just had an unknown man knock at my door claiming his parcel had been delivered to my house .
He lives in the road behind . He was looking at his phone and claims app said parcel was delivered to here.
when I asked what the parcel was he said furniture.
I was polite but after he had gone I am
thinking why would I take furniture in for a house in the next street for someone I don’t know? Have I just been accused of stealing ? The app clearly never said a number but the map on it directed it to our house.
Am I being unreasonable to be annoyed.

ok i accept the consensus is I shouldn’t be annoyed . it’s quite reasonable for a company to tell someone I have stolen their parcel🙄

He literally asked if you'd received his misdelivered parcel. That's it.

If you knew you hadn't taken in any deliveries asking what was in it would've made me more suspicious than you saying no you didn't have it...

@Dotdotdot21 you say he kept looking at his phone, did he show you the phone? I would think this is dodgy. However, if it's an honest request, YABU for being angry at technology or him asking, there have been threads here about people keeping deliveries but saying they never received despite posters having video evidence.

I think you’re unreasonable to characterise it as theft but I’d be very mildly annoyed at a delivery company if their incompetence disturbed my night. Not as annoyed as I’d be if they miss-delivered my parcel and I had to traipse around disturbing people asking for it!

I see how it might be a bit disconcerting to have your house incorrectly pinpointed on a map like that too, though generally I think that sort of technology is really handy.

It's not other posters sounding angry tbf.

Someone thought their delivery had come to you. You confirmed it hadn't.

Nothing to see here.

Parcel deliveries where I am are like a game of where’s Wally.

If he lives a street away maybe it’s took so time to identify the house of the picture they’ve posted.

Everi put my in a safe location last week which was my actually house took me 2 hours to actually identify it off the pictures

People do this, it happened to me, and they never contacted me, think hoping they would get to keep it !

“there have been threads here about people keeping deliveries but saying they never received despite posters having video evidence.“

Well there was no video evidence as I don’t have the parcel . I m the only one in all day. The house has no front garden and small back garden so easy to see if there was a box abandoned there.
I can’t get over the fact that anyone would legitimately take. a parcel in for a street behind them , so a completely different road name . Why would you do that - you would say that’s the wrong address, and the reason I asked what the parcel was , was to have rouge idea of the size. The house next door the people are away so maybe it had been posted through the letterbox. But as the man said furniture I’m guessing a large parcel.

It’s just someone trying to locate his item that he’s paid for. I bet he’s more annoyed that it wasn’t delivered to him that you are that he dared to knock at your door. I wouldn’t think anything of it. You’ve not been accused of anything.

Why would you do that - you would say that’s the wrong address,

I never look at the name or address on parcels being delivered. I just assume it's something DP ordered or that someone's sent for the children. If I got someone else's parcel in error I wouldn't realise until the drivers had left.

Did you find your parcel there ? That’s what worries me he thinks I have his parcel and am keeping it.

It sounds like you don't have much experience of parcels. This is a very minor everyday occurance, people take in parcels that arent for them all the time, mostly by mistake it's not that hard to understand is it?

In my street WhatsApp group there are sometimes messges about mis-delivered packages, it's a total nonevent, no one thinks you stole his furniture, move on.

Next delivered my daughters kitchen table and benches to random number down the street when she was home. She saw the van turn round and drive off but no parcel so called them. About an hour later they came back retrieved the furniture which had been dumped outside the other house and delivered it.

yodel delivered my hoover on the next street and left it outside the house, I found it using the van following App, but I looked like a thief pinching my package back.

He posibly thinks you're a weirdo for asking what was in the parcel. Why would you ask that? You know you haven't taken it in, why do you need to know what it was. You may have raised suspicions in his mind that weren there before he knocked on the door.

When I said it wasn’t here , he looked at next door and I know they are away. So wondered if it was a parcel that would fit through the letter box. I can’t timber my exact wording - it wasn’t what was in the parcel. Was a question to determine size . I think I said ‘what was the Paracelsus would it fit through letter box and he said no it was furniture .

A lot of replies now saying people keep parcels and they would be suspicious of me. Exactly what I feared.
And he did not have a photo etc just a tracking app that showed the parcel at mine.
I hope he doesn’t think I have his parcel .

You need to get over it, he'll get a new one delivered!

The couriers tell you it's a neighbours and by the time you look you realise it is someone else a street away.

I got dumped with someone's random delivery by a courier doing that.

Anyway I kept the parcel for just over a week thinking they would come and find it. They didn't. So clearly they hadn't be left a card or anything stating it had been delivered elsewhere.

It took me two days to dump it on their doorstep. The first time I went round I discovered it was a flat in a building a street away. I rang theirs and 2 of their neighbours bells but no one answered. The second time I went round one of the neighbours opened the building door so I dumped it on the parcel owners doorstep.

The next two times the courier appeared with a parcel for the same address I told him I wasn't accepting it. I guess the person stopped ordering items when they weren't in.

One of my SILs got dumped with garden furniture for someone 100 numbers away on the same street. The person did get a card and turned up the next day when I was there, but seemed to imply my SIL wanted to steal their furniture. My SIL only accepted it because there was someone in 95% of the time, and she knows lots of people up and down the road.

I'd never open the door past 9pm let alone after 11! Weird that he knocked at that time !

Maybe he does think you have it. So what? It might be this is normal thinking, anxious about day to day things. Consider something address this maybe meditation.

Actually you'd have to catch me on a very good day to get me to open the door at all! Postman just leaves parcels on the doorstep .

They didn’t knock after 11! They knocked at 9:30.

YABVU

Sorry I did post again to say it was about 9.30, I wrote the post at 11 pm.

In the kindest way, I think you are over-thinking this. The man thought his parcel may have been delivered to your house, he knocked and it wasn't, he was polite and went away. No need to think about it any further! I'm sure he has either found it by now or will contact the sender to find out where it is.

RE: taking in a parcel for the next street. When I get parcels delivered, I often don't check the name/address immediately as assume it is something my husband ordered. So this could easily happen & you wouldn't necessarily notice until the courier has disappeared.

Glad I opened the door, if I hadn’t he would definitely think I had his parcel and wasn’t giving it back. He would have seen lights on , heard the Tv , car in the drive etc when he knocked . I was clearly in.