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!

If it would not compromise your safety, is it worth letting the local press know, assuming you have a local paper?

Disrupting one of their events/matches is what I would prefer though.

Alternative if you know the club president and where he or she lives, take parcels and dump on their doorstep, with a 'reception committee' to film it.

Problem is, any cease and desist letter would probably be delivered to your own house !
You'll have to go round to the knob club and deliver it by hand

Big sign
"We don't accept any deliveries for Posh Swanks Sports because they are rude aggressive arseholes. Do not knock on my door. Feel free to photograph this sign"

Or engage Joe Lycett!

Put up a big sign:

All Deliveries for Snobs United Sports Club
Please Throw Over Hedge and Into Yonder Field

Alternative if you know the club president and where he or she lives, take parcels and dump on their doorstep, with a 'reception committee' to film it.

Dumping on their doorstep might be slightly extreme!

Oh, wait - did you just mean the parcels?!

I'd accept and keep all the deliveries.....and make them jump hoops to get them back. Would potentially store them with old used cat litter or something.

2 choices

keep the stuff.

put it on the pavement for anyone to pick up.

Speaking as someone versed in cheeky fuckery (my neighbour used photos of my garden to advertise his air bnb) I’d do what some others have suggested.

Make things extremely difficult. Do not just hand over parcels, answer the door in your coat with a “going out, not convenient but I’ll be in on Tuesday” when Tuesday comes don’t answer. If they do catch you, you aren’t sure where it is at the moment or it’s inconvenient and can they call back. Rinse repeat.

once they realise it’s a lot more inconvenient to collect from you than just get things delivered elsewhere they will stop.

😂😂😂

What's in the parcels? They are addressed to your address, get them opened. Whoops! Didn't notice the name, sorry that I've been using whatever it was that got delivered! Oh and yes, you'll have to pay me for looking after them for you, I only accept cash.

Throw the parcels into the middle of their playing field, in the elements.

I can't help wonder if they had an agreement with previous occupier and got snotty because you are not continuing that agreement ?

This.!!!!

This. Its not theft if you have told them in writing and they refuse to do anything about it!

I would write them a letter including screenshots of the website and state that if they continue to fraudulently use your address on their website and for deliveries then you will take things further. What sport is it? They may have a national association or body that you could also report them to. If you know the name of the president try to find his/her address online (even if you have to pay) and copy the letter to them.

We had a similar situation in that a local courier inadvertently put our house phone number on their ‘sorry you were out cards’. We’d get lots of voicemails from people trying to arrange delivery even though the answering machine had me saying our names on it 🤣

I contacted them and they didn’t reply. I then changed our message to add ‘if you are calling about a parcel we are not xyz company. Do not leave a message as we will not call you back.’ Still people left messages. Super annoying but eventually they reduced. I was glad we moved and couldn’t keep our number!

I recall one customer calling and I answered and he got really shirty with me as I didn’t have the contact details of the company (I told him they were online!).

Omg this is insane....im furious on your behalf aswell...I would stick a notice on your front door now saying that you will not accept deliveries for sports club.

I’m with the petty people! I’d take them all and not be in for collection, like ever!

If they call the police, you can just be breezy and show them all the stuff you have collected and say ‘I’ve not had anyone knock for it!’

Can you go to the police and show this to them ^. See if they can give you a sign or notice to put up at your house or something and ask them to go pay the club a visit asap.

This is the sort of thread where I really want an update in a month to see if the ActionFraud thing worked.

Good luck OP and I hope this stops, sounds enraging

Oooo I know.
Accept the deliveries.
Send a letter to the address registered on their website saying when you will be available for them to be collected (once a month at 6am on a Sunday or whatever time you feel like).
If anyone comes to call for deliveries tell them you sent a letter to the address listed on their website stating the times you are available for someone to come and collect their parcels!

Big bonfire ? In all seriousness I'd probably go to a solicitor and sent the sports club a letter asking them to cease the use of your address and if they don't cease then you will be charging them a fee for the use of it.

I feel your pain OP, it is so frustrating.

I suddenly started receiving post everyday which was meant for a neighbour who had taken over the running of a national snooty hobby club. Initially I just posted it through his door but it kept coming.

I knocked on with another pile, his wife was on the phone and just looked at me distainfully through the window and kept me waiting. I patiently explained what was happening but got nowhere, she looked straight down her nose at me. I then found my address on the club’s website! After that all their post went straight to my shredder and miraculously the problem resolved itself within weeks.

Does the sport have a governing body that you can also complain to? Basically you have to make yourself into a giant nuisance.

I’m guessing bowls.