Neighbours keeping hold of parcels

[Bride2Be25]

AIBU to think it’s a bit rude to hold onto your neighbours parcel when it has been incorrectly delivered to you?!

Royal Mail have delivered my parcel to someone else - all I’ve got to go on from the photo is a pair of feet. I’ve posted on our local FB page but no one has responded so I’ll be knocking on all the neighbours doors until I find it but I just find it so odd that people don’t drop it round ! I see so many people posting on FB asking if people recognise that door or those feet so I’m definitely not alone. I always drop parcels & post off if it’s not mine, surely it’s just a nice neighborly thing to do?!

Also just to add it’s taken me a while to find the tracking details but I can see it was delivered a week ago!

Royal Mail only have the photo & a map saying it’s been delivered to our house

But then when asked if she had actually called Royal Mail and spoken to them, rather than just look at an app, she went silent.

She was also silent when asked what the seller/shop said when she spoke to them.

It’s very well known that if a parcel doesn’t turn up you contact the seller. I post or receive roughly one parcel per decade, and even I know that.

I stopped replying to this thread as got bored of everyone jumping on me saying I was being entitled when I’d said numerous times that I didn’t know where it was & had been out knocking on neighbours doors trying to find it !!!

I did call both the shop & RM who weren’t particularly helping but kept trying other roads & leaving notes with everyone who didn’t answer & eventually found it.

My point of the thread was NOT that I expect neighbours to be my concierge service and run round after me but if we all helped each other out a bit more then the world would be a nicer place. I see constant posts on our FB page of people trying to track down a misdelivered parcel so its not an uncommon issue. A note through the door to say I’ve had your parcel for a week and can you come collect it, is surely better than just having someone else’s stuff cluttering up your house. And I’m sure people will jump in saying that neighbours might have mobility issues but let’s be honest it’s far more likely that they are able bodied !!

It wasn’t taken in as a favour, the OP has explained numerous times that the RM believe that it was delivered to the correct address. Whoever has got it knows it was misdelivered.

I'm so glad you managed to track it down finally but I feel your pain!

I couldn't believe how many people seemed to have totally missed the point and assumed it was a kind neighbour doing you a personal favour rather than a misdelivered parcel!

Hope you managed to explain when you collected it that the delay was due to the sleuthing you were forced to do to locate your package and then the people in possession of your parcel apologised for not bringing it round earlier and saving you the trouble!

Incidentally, I just saw something suggesting you can add a what3words note to deliveries which might help next time? Could help us too since we're very rural and hard to find which is the excuse we generally get for misdeliveries!