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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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FatherJackHackettsUnderpantsHamper · 18/07/2023 17:50

Do you have any experience in working in a market or dodgy car-boot sale, OP?

TRexTara · 18/07/2023 18:02

Ah shite, just thought of something. Could it be possible that the Sports club has no control over their postal address? I say this because for some reason when I order takeaways or try to get a cab the sat nav always takes them to the road behind my house, where there is absolutely no access. I right my real address in the special instructions box every time, but still it happens.

Ive lost count of the amount of takeaways that have gone missing. What makes it worse is that I can see them on the app going the wrong way! With no means to contact the driver. I had a cab driver once argue with me after I did a big Aldi shop about the best way to get to my own house. Twat.

Maybe there is nothing the sports club can do?

TRexTara · 18/07/2023 18:03

Write not right. Sorry.

TRexTara · 18/07/2023 18:04

Zimunya · 18/07/2023 17:42

@TeddySunflowers - I totally realise that I am overly-invested in this saga, but I am desperate for an update! Have they realised you have their parcel? Have they contacted you (more politely than the previous occasion, I hope)? Are you avoiding them? Update, please!

Me too.

PuzzledObserver · 18/07/2023 18:21

TRexTara · 18/07/2023 18:02

Ah shite, just thought of something. Could it be possible that the Sports club has no control over their postal address? I say this because for some reason when I order takeaways or try to get a cab the sat nav always takes them to the road behind my house, where there is absolutely no access. I right my real address in the special instructions box every time, but still it happens.

Ive lost count of the amount of takeaways that have gone missing. What makes it worse is that I can see them on the app going the wrong way! With no means to contact the driver. I had a cab driver once argue with me after I did a big Aldi shop about the best way to get to my own house. Twat.

Maybe there is nothing the sports club can do?

They have their own postal address, they just prefer to use OP’s.

Takeitonthechin · 18/07/2023 19:00

Put a sign on your door

Don't answer the door

If they leave the parcel, put it in the bin, tell the sports club, you thought it was rubbish and it went to the tip... they will soon start having it re-directed

FatherJackHackettsUnderpantsHamper · 18/07/2023 21:45

They have their own postal address, they just prefer to use OP’s.

And it's easy to mistake one residential address for another; but not so much a private house and a sports club!

thebestyoucanhopefor · 18/07/2023 22:21

It's really really simple.

Just don't accept the parcels or send them back marked "NOT AT THIS ADDRESS".

massiveclamps · 18/07/2023 22:40

TeddySunflowers · 28/06/2023 09:50

@sayanythingelse honestly I've sent back so many parcels and it's made no difference. I thought they'd get fed up and stop using my address. I guess the delivery drivers must be calling them after I turn them away and they eventually get to where they're meant to be. Wish there was some sort of regulatory body that could stop stuff like this as it does feel a bit like we're being harassed.

@thebestyoucanhopefor As you can see from this post, the OP has already tried doing this, and it hasn't worked.

Billybagpuss · 19/07/2023 06:07

Any update @TeddySunflowers

KeepYaHeadUp · 19/07/2023 06:46

Brefugee · 14/07/2023 15:00

there is a really good way of stopping it. And that is as countless posters have said: simply refuse to take them.

Put a sign on your door saying not to ring if it is for the club, because you won't take it and they are wasting their and your time. If a courier / postie does ring and it's for them: call their company and tell them that you will start billing them for half an hour of your time each time you come to the door and it is not for you.

Taking in the parcels at all sends totally the wrong message

The OP has clearly said she's refused many of the parcels and it's made no difference

PuzzledObserver · 19/07/2023 07:41

KeepYaHeadUp · 19/07/2023 06:46

The OP has clearly said she's refused many of the parcels and it's made no difference

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That’s very frustrating, and perhaps she needs to add other strategies, such as writing to them recorded delivery, or involving the local press.

However, the refusal to accept parcels has to be maintained consistently, they won’t put up for ever with not getting their deliveries. Don’t give in, OP! Just say No, and keep on saying it.

I get that’s it’s a hassle. But think of it this way - now that you have a parcel of theirs, you are also going to have the hassle of them coming looking for it. Two rings at your door per parcel, rather than one.

Perhaps a modification to the Just Say No strategy: every time a delivery arrives and you refuse it, email the club chairman: “I’m emailing to inform you that an attempt was made today deliver a parcel for you to my address. I have previously asked you not to use my address. The parcel has been returned to sender. I repeat my request for you to stop using my address for your deliveries and to immediately remove it from your website.”

Just a random thought - I wonder if any of the neighbours are similarly afflicted? Maybe they play a percentage game and think, oh, at least one of them will accept the delivery, and we’ll get refunded for the rest.

Emotionalsupportviper · 20/07/2023 18:35

FatherJackHackettsUnderpantsHamper · 18/07/2023 21:45

They have their own postal address, they just prefer to use OP’s.

And it's easy to mistake one residential address for another; but not so much a private house and a sports club!

That doesn't excuse the appalling bad manners, though.

AintNobodyHereButUsChickens · 06/09/2023 16:04

Any update on this @TeddySunflowers?

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