Neighbour knocking to find parcel

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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.

Bizarre thread.

Of course asking if you have his parcel doesn’t mean he thinks you’ve stolen it.what an odd assumption.

Hermes have form for misdelivering parcels, and sometimes people do keep them.

In fact I’ve seen threads on here from people saying they’re sick of taking in parcels and would they be unreasonable just to refuse to hand them over.

But just because people keep them doesn’t mean that he’s assuming you’ve stolen his furniture.

Thank you , yes I’m overthinking it ,

if sone people keep parcels from Hermes that’s stealing .
And a few posters have commented about neighbours keeping their parcels so hardly bizarre assumption.
His app was saying the parcel was at my house , he asked had I had the parcel I said no. Which he seemed to accept and said he would contact the company. But he continued to look at the app and say the parcel was here so I’m not sure if he believed me .

I don't understand why you're getting so worked up about this.

Of course it would be odd for someone to take in a parcel for a neighbouring street. But that's not what happened here. It was quite reasonable of him to knock at your door to enquire whether his parcel had been mistakenly delivered to you. The app told him the location of the parcel and so that's where he looked. Makes perfect sense.

I'm certain he doesn't think you've stolen it. That's a huge leap! He's probably contacted the courier firm and told them the parcel cannot be found. They'll either tell him the correct location or he'll ask the retailer to send a replacement.

This is a very common, every day occurrence and no big deal. You are overreacting.

I’m far from worked up , I’m a very calm person. I just find it bizarre.
And why would the app show the parcel here or nearby if it had not been delivered? That’s what I don’t understand.

The more successful conmen and criminals don't look/act shifty. They make themselves "respectable" as part of the act. What did you expect? A swag bag over the shoulder and a ball/chain attached the his ankle?

Wondering why you asked what the parcel was if nothing had been delivered to you, why didn't you just say you don't have any parcels?

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,
Recently I've been asked to take a parcel in, the driver hasn't mentioned where it's for, just said for The Smiths or whatever. I assumed it was someone on the street but one was for the house behind us and one at the other end of the estate.

Are your back gardens back to back? I wonder if they’ve chucked it in his shed and the locations thing is a bit off.

I had a parcel go missing. They wouldn't refund it because they investigated and the drivers tracker showed him at my address. I had to do my own investigating and eventually tracked it down in the back garden of a neighbour about 20 houses away. It took some finding! I don't think there's anything remotely creepy or suspicious about this, he just wants to find his parcel!

I mean the furniture could have been a lamp in a box or something smallish, if you know he lives locally then why are you getting bothered by this! If you don't know he lives locally then it might have been someone knocking on your door for other reasons, but if it's a genuine neighbour, then there really is no need to be miffed by this, I suspect the poor chat is equally confused as to where his parcel
Is. Mumsnet is weird sometimes. Did you see the message on the phone OP

Ah, sorry, what time did he knock at your door? If it was gone 9 9.30 then that is weird OP, I would have put a note through the door in the morning asking if it was there.

It never ceases to amaze me the totally innocent and trivial things that people get worked up and post on here about.

Someone thought their parcel might have got delivered to your house in error, so they knocked to see if it had. Seriously?

I said straight away I didn’t have any parcels. He continued to look at the app and say it was showing as here. As I have already said , the house next door is empty so wondered if it was a parcel that had gone through their letterbox. He did go off to look in their garden.
I also knew that the house directly behind mine , same street as man , had a red food box on their back door step I had seen it there all day.

Wow. Someone knocked at your door, asked if you had his parcel. You say no and he goes away, probably to try your neighbours.
How is that weird or accusing you of stealing?

This is mumsnet a trivial chat app! I’m far from worked up. I was awake with the baby and nice to discuss with people . Im not going to ring my family late at night early morning . Doesn’t have to be serious to post on here .

He knocks on the door and I say no.
He doesn’t go away. He continues to look at the app and say the parcel is showing as here. Do you see the difference .
And no neighbours - only one house and no one is there as I have already posted - yes I directed him to look in their back garden , no idea if he did .

Then he's obviously trying to work out where else it may be, and you tell him the location is wrong on his app.

The poor man! He wants his parcel and the idiot delivery man delivered it to the wrong address. Has that never happened to you? And if the only thing he could go by was the location that the app showed then it’s no wonder he was a bit insistent.

We had a laptop misdelivered to a "neighbour". Right house number, wrong road. We could find out where it was from GPS tracking although this showed it as being next door to the house that actually had it. We did get it back.

I hope the house it wasn't at didn't think DS2 was accusing them of anything when he tried to track it down.

like Find My iPhone, it can be accurate but can also have an error margin of many metres depending on conditions/signal strength at the time.

This happens to me all the time due to a GPS quirk. Luckily the house it ends up in and us are o good terms so we exchanged numbers and just take the parcels round if they aren't heavy.

I don't think this guy was doing anything wrong, but if I didn't know whose house it was I would be nervous of asking tbh.

Very calm, but starts a thread moaning and repeatedly claiming an app has accused you of lying.

It's a non thing. He got home from work, app said his parcel ( which he has paid his money for) is at your house. He asked you. You said you don't have it. End of problem. I wouldn't open the door late at night, I would open the window upstairs. No one asked you to accept a parcel from a street away and you don't have the parcel.

Kite22 would you take furniture in for someone you didn’t know in a road behind your house ? Who would do that ?

I probably would, yes. Why on earth wouldn't you?

I'd like to think someone would do the same for me.

You do sound really worked up, and a bit paranoid.

GPS (assuming that’s what the app he was on uses) can be a bit off, even Find My Phone can sometimes glitch and show someone a long way from where they are.

Lots of people would take in a parcel on behalf of a neighbour over the back, I’ve done it. It’s not as bizarre a thing as you are making out.

You keep saying the company told him that you stole his parcel, but they didn’t say that at all.

You’re overthinking and I doubt anything at all will come of this.