I live in a street of semi’s and terraced houses. I’m a semi. There is a terrace house near to mine but not attached to me. I don’t know them, never spoken to them, don’t know what car they drive or what they look like but assume it’s a family from the stuff in the garden, which I can see if I strain my neck out of an upstairs window.
A DPD man knocked a while back and asked me to take their parcels - there were multiple big boxes and when I questioned him to ask him to ask one of the terraced houses (attached to said house) he said they had specifically nominated my house if they were not home.
I took the parcels to be neighbourly thinking it would be a small hassle but not much out of my way.
I ended up with these boxes for nearly 2 weeks. I knocked on this house every single day and no one would answer the door. I didn’t want to leave them outside in case it rained so I left a note in the end to say I would send them back to the company if they didn’t collect them and a teenager turned up a day later to take them.
My DC let another delivery in recently and the same thing has happened again. This time I just left them on their doorstep and they have gone so I assume someone was home.
AIBU to refuse these deliveries now from DPD? They take up space to store in my house, it’s not my problem the recipients don’t like answering the door, they don’t speak to me. Or am I being un-neighbourly?