Neighbour not collecting parcels

[frillypots]

This is a situation that I always thought I understood the etiquette for but now my neighbour has left me wondering!

If you take in a parcel for a neighbour I always presumed said neighbours should call round and collect the parcel and say thanks etc

My neighbour repeatedly leaves the parcel and never comes for it, may even see me on my drive and ask if there's a parcel but still not come and collect it when I have confirmed there is.

The latest time we had the white large parcel for a week! I was refusing to take it over as I just think it's rude so it sat in hallway and in the end I got so annoyed I took it round.

Is this not the polite thing to do?! Not actually wait for someone to bring it to you?or AIBU?!

Does this happen to anyone else? I don't want to refuse to take them as they do take ours in but we always go and collect straight away!

Or just say "I'll be home at 7pm and leave it outside our front door then" ?
(rather than carrying it across to theirs)

I've been on your end of the stick before OP and it used to piss me right off.
At the time I had a new born baby so was in a lot and would get knocks on my door all day long for my next door neighbours. In the end I stuck a note on the door saying "newborn sleeping, if not a delivery for Mrs Crowley do not knock

It was a young couple who used to drive me nuts anyway with their racket and click clacking around the house in high heels at all hours.
There was never a thank you. I'd constantly be trying to deliver their package to them.

A very expensive pram of mine was being delivered to my parents and their next door neighbour kindly took it.
However when I went round to knock and get it the idiot shouted through the door that he doesn't open the door unless there's an appointment. So I said I'd like my parcel. So he said leave me your name and number and I'll ring you when I'm free. Wrote my number down, posted it through the door. Got 5 mins down the road in the car and he rang me and said "you can come and collect your parcel, it's taking up a lot of room, what is it"

How he didn't have a £1500 pram rammed up his arse that day I'll never know but I was pregnant and murderous.

Actually, your subsequent posts mean you might be a bit unreasonable as you confirmed you had a parcel, but he couldn't collect it as you had locked up. He probably didn't know if a neighbour had it, or which one.

The problem is I always watch to see if the delivery driver puts a card through so I know that they know where their parcel is, another time I got a text message asking if I had it to which I replied yes and it was another 6 days and they still didn't come for it so I chucked that over the fence!

It's just bone idle laziness I think on their part, they also leave their bins out longest on the street sometimes until the next collection

I still appreciate the fact they take mine in so reluctant to stop taking theirs in but actually I might stop actually giving in and taking it round and seeing if they ever collect.

One time I knocked there to collect my own parcel knowing they had left theirs at mine for a week and had to do a swap of parcels on the doorstep mine had been delivered that day and theirs had sat in my hallway for a week.

It's just the one sided aspect of it that annoys me - how can you not want your parcel that you've paid for?!

If you have their number, just text and say their parcel will be on your drive after 5pm (or whenever is convenient to you). If they also reciprocate with taking in parcels, it doesn't seem that they are as unreasonable as initially suggested.