Sports club keeps using my address

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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!

@ekk100 they definitely have an address and postcode for their building which is also registered with their company. There's absolutely no need for them to be using my address for their deliveries.

@Nanasueathome I have previously accepted parcels for them but they were extremely rude soji stopped doing it. E.g. I was chatting to a neighbour in my front garden and someone from the club drove up to my house and started honking their horn, wound down their window and started yelling at me to go get their parcel. Didn't bother getting out of the car and didn't say thank you when I have it to them.

Now I've turned them away I don't know if they're getting their parcels or not. Pure speculation but perhaps the delivery company is phoning them and asking for clarification on their actual location. But I have no idea.

Anyone else curious as to what sport it is? :)

By giving your address as a contact, they are giving the impression that your house belongs to them. I would be speaking to a solicitor if I was you!

you have much more patience than I do. I’d have slung the parcels straight in a skip!

Oh wow! That is so bloody rude!

I was thinking golf?

I’m guessing golf.

Wouldnt it be a shame if you told the delivery driver to leave them right by the gate and the friendly neighbourhood dogs cocked a leg on every parcel or oh dear your sprinklers just happened to come on a soak the parcels every single time!

Cricket club maybe? Snobby arseholes ordering you about like that, op!

I encountered what could be a different side of this. I sent an email to the address I had for somebody, but there was what seemed to be an obvious typo in the address (letter missing from name) which I corrected. I got an email back from somebody else saying that it wasn't them, and that it had happened before. It turned out that it was not a typo, and no doubt lots of people had done the same as I had. The recipient of the emails was glad to have an explanation of why it was happening, and I advised the person concerned that they might want to put "no typo" when giving their email address to a human, so that people would know not to "correct" it.

I would stop refusing the parcels, but refuse to give them to the sports club. At the end of the day they've been sent to your address so they are clearly for you.

I would take the parcels in then refuse to hand them over when they call for them. I presume they will then ring the police claiming theft. Hopefully the police will then sort the whole sorry mess out with a warning for the club.

This is complete fuckery at its best!
Unbelievable & so so cheeky it's unreal.
I'd defo report to action fraud like you have, and just see what comes of it. It's also worth just popping in to your local police station to have a friendly chat with them too about it, to see what could be done to scare them off.
Not sure about a legal route as well maybe? Altho you don't want to be out of pocket.

My guess tennis

I would guess that the reason they are using your address is because the clubhouse (or whatever it is) is not necessarily manned during the day.

A notice on your door will stop you being disturbed but it won't stop them using your address. I agree with a PP. Send them a schedule of fees, refuse to release the parcel without payment, and tell them your opening hours for collection (maybe a 1 hour window, once a week).

Take the stuff in and send an invoice for storage to the sports club. They don't get the stuff unless you get the cash.

I think sending them an email setting out costs for receiving and storing their packages is the best idea judging from their attitude so far.

If it is a sport such as cricket or golf, get a few mates along and disrupt their game. A gym, disrupt a class. Or find out where a club official lives and make sure the parcel company re-direct parcels to that person's house.

Deffo not golf. The "clubhouse" would be manned a lot more regularly than it appears this club is.

I'm going with cricket.

I can't believe the nerve of the person who collected the parcel previously! Good on you for refusing all parcels from now on.

If the address is linked on Google or Bing to your home, report it and have it removed.

If Google allows for reviews for the club, leave a 1-star review - "full of very rude people who don't even know what their correct address is"

Start charging them £20 handling fee for every parcel.

My money's on a bowls club (sorry, I know that's not helpful!).

I was hoping it was polo as it is in a big field...

I was also thinking polo!

I don’t have any advice that has not already been given, but bloody hell just reading this thread has made me furious!

I hope the Action Fraud people sort them out for you, OP. And yes, in the mean time put a sign on the gate AND door saying you’re not the sports club and won’t take their parcels. Use the word “refuse”, actually.