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Sports club keeps using my address

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TeddySunflowers · 28/06/2023 09:23

Help! There's a sport club near my house, they have a building in an field nearby and I guess my house is the closest to it.

They keep using my address for all their deliveries and pick ups to the point now where I'm getting delivery people knocking on my door every morning sometimes twice a day and it's becoming really invasive and stressful because it's constantly disturbing my day, quite often they come early and wake me up, or hammer on the door while I'm in a meeting, and when I explain that I'm not the sports club and they've used my address without my permission, they argue with me as if I'm wrong! Then insist on showing me the order with my address on it as if that'll somehow convince me I'm not standing in my own home. It never used to be this bad and I used to try and be helpful when I first moved in but after accepting a parcel for them they turned up and we're immensely rude and I decided screw that I've just done them a favour for no reason. So I don't accept parcels, I don't even redirect the drivers any more in hope that it would deter the club from using my address but they still do it.

I know it's not the fault of the delivery person but I am slowly losing my patience with it. We've told the club to stop I've also contacted the delivery company to tell them to stop but it makes no difference. I don't know what else to do 😫 hellpp!

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Betterlatethanontime · 01/07/2023 00:58

Refuse to take the delivery. Hopefully if everything keeps getting sent back they will stop using your address.

ClearConfusion · 01/07/2023 01:49

Surely using your address without permission is illegal. I would send them a cease and desist letter, they seem to be ignoring your polite requests.

SinnerBoy · 01/07/2023 07:28

Dog Pee Deliveries, I like it!

SkySecret · 03/07/2023 13:43

I really want to know the outcome of this …!

BlueBlueBerries · 07/07/2023 21:24

@TeddySunflowers any update??

TeddySunflowers · 14/07/2023 10:30

Update: not heard anything from the fraud action report that I made and things went quiet for a week. But this morning I had another parcel 😤 so I've taken it and I'm going out for the day and won't be here all weekend. 😂 So taking some of your advice to make things difficult for them every time they send something to my house! This one came from DPD, and the delivery guy looked a little bit like Pedro Pascal.
Does anyone know if it is legal to charge a daily parcel handling fee? 😂

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MarriedMama23 · 14/07/2023 10:32

Not sure on that but definitely make them sweat for the weekend! Serves them right!!

poetryandwine · 14/07/2023 10:37

I love it!

sodthesodoff · 14/07/2023 10:40

Haha like your style. In all honesty I just wouldn't answer the door even if you are in. You were washing your hair right and couldn't hear the door

Give them a chance to apologise properly and acknowledge your complaint.

Brefugee · 14/07/2023 10:42

Frankly? While i like your style, they will get the parcel sooner or later.
Why didn't you just tell the driver to take it away as it's not for you? and ask him to speak to his despatch team that they are not to attempt to deliver post/packets/parcels to you if they are for the sports club?

SoupDragon · 14/07/2023 10:46

TeddySunflowers · 14/07/2023 10:30

Update: not heard anything from the fraud action report that I made and things went quiet for a week. But this morning I had another parcel 😤 so I've taken it and I'm going out for the day and won't be here all weekend. 😂 So taking some of your advice to make things difficult for them every time they send something to my house! This one came from DPD, and the delivery guy looked a little bit like Pedro Pascal.
Does anyone know if it is legal to charge a daily parcel handling fee? 😂

Why would you accept the parcel? Just refuse each and every one of them. Far more hassle for them.

LlynTegid · 14/07/2023 10:48

I think you should insist on photo ID and only the club president visit you to hand over the parcel.

ilovelamp82 · 14/07/2023 10:49

You should just take all the parcels in and when they come asking for their parcels, say you don't know what they're talking about. They'll soon have to change the address if they stop receiving anything.

SinnerBoy · 14/07/2023 11:13

LlynTegid · Today 10:48

I think you should insist on photo ID and only the club president visit you to hand over the parcel.

Yes!

"I'm sorry, you could be anyone. Come back with your passport and a utility bill."

Then go out.

SkySecret · 14/07/2023 11:14

I think, in the current circumstances, telling the parcel delivery guy explicitly to return to sender is the best option. That way they can’t get the parcel, it’s hassle for them, and they’ve no reason to come to your door ;)

AND you’ve done nothing wrong. Return to sender is a legit action for mail that comes to your address for someone who doesn’t live there.

NoTMyNamea · 14/07/2023 11:16

dawnc27 · 28/06/2023 09:42

id put it in writing to the sports club that any further parcels delivered to your house you will assume are a gift and will keep them. it would only take 1 or 2 until they stopped doing it i reckon

I would do this

NoTMyNamea · 14/07/2023 11:19

TeddySunflowers · 14/07/2023 10:30

Update: not heard anything from the fraud action report that I made and things went quiet for a week. But this morning I had another parcel 😤 so I've taken it and I'm going out for the day and won't be here all weekend. 😂 So taking some of your advice to make things difficult for them every time they send something to my house! This one came from DPD, and the delivery guy looked a little bit like Pedro Pascal.
Does anyone know if it is legal to charge a daily parcel handling fee? 😂

Keep it, open it and use it and keep doing that with all parcels! Hope there's something good in there. And just ignore them completely when they come knocking about it. If they catch you just say 'I'm recording you for evidence for the police, this is harrassment' and get your phone out.

Namechangeforanamechange · 14/07/2023 11:19

I believe you would need to inform the club first that if they continue to use your address for deliveries/on their website, you will charge them x amount for the service/storage. You can't just hold the parcel to ransom! 😂

EsmeSusanOgg · 14/07/2023 11:32

TeddySunflowers · 14/07/2023 10:30

Update: not heard anything from the fraud action report that I made and things went quiet for a week. But this morning I had another parcel 😤 so I've taken it and I'm going out for the day and won't be here all weekend. 😂 So taking some of your advice to make things difficult for them every time they send something to my house! This one came from DPD, and the delivery guy looked a little bit like Pedro Pascal.
Does anyone know if it is legal to charge a daily parcel handling fee? 😂

I'd get a lawyer to draft a cease and desist letter for you. Getting them to 1) remove your address from their website and any othet internal/ external communications and 2) to stop using your address for deliveries.

Also, blast them on social media - especially with the honking demands from someone after their parcel and treating you as their own personal serf.

Shocking.

EsmeSusanOgg · 14/07/2023 11:33

Namechangeforanamechange · 14/07/2023 11:19

I believe you would need to inform the club first that if they continue to use your address for deliveries/on their website, you will charge them x amount for the service/storage. You can't just hold the parcel to ransom! 😂

This sounds reasonable.

Monster80 · 14/07/2023 11:52

The universe is telling you to start an ebay business. What’s in the packages? Tell the club you aren’t receiving their packages.

User27680416 · 14/07/2023 12:09

Just don't answer the door when they come to get it. Or say it's in a room with a sleeping baby and you can't retrieve it at the moment so they will have to come back. Or that someone else took the parcel in and you don't know where they've put it and they'll have to come back. And on and on. Just make it super difficult and they'll stop doing it. Or tell the DPD man that you think that they have died and so the package needs to be sent back....

happyfoot · 14/07/2023 12:41

Why do people keep suggesting solicitor letters?- they dont come cheap, such a letter is going to cost money. Why on earth should OP spend her cash on their mistake?! I'd either refuse it or make it really inconvenient for them to pick it up.

Talia99 · 14/07/2023 13:49

Also people saying to keep the parcels / sell them on eBay. This would literally be a crime and I’m fairly sure the OP doesn’t want a criminal record.

dutchyoriginal · 14/07/2023 14:32

would it be ok to just leave them outside in the garden near your hedge or something? Any (lots of!) rain predicted where you are?