Not my parcel so why my problem?

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Knock on my door 2 days ago and a man with a large parcel told me he was a resident of a nearby street. He said the parcel had been delivered to him in error.

As I wasn't expecting anything I checked the address and it was for a neighbour 2 doors away. I told the man it wasn't mine and he said he had tried numerous times to deliver it to neighbour and he was never in. He'd put a note through the door and no one had called him and he could no longer store the large parcel.

When I asked why he was knocking on my door he said I lived nearer so I should take it. Like a fool, I did. I think I was so gob smacked I didn't react sensibly.

I have also tried to deliver it and put a note through his letterbox - I do know neighbour by sight and he has been at home as car has come and gone.

I'm also fed up of large parcel in my hallway so I'm thinking of passing it onto another neighbour. What do you think? 😀

I would put another note through his door saying that you are no longer able to keep his parcel, as your home is not a post office sorting centre, and you will leave it on his door step tomorrow afternoon at 1pm , whether he is in or not, unless he comes to collect it before hand

Do that. Or put a note through the door telling him to collect it. Too cheeky leaving it at your house.

This

i would absolutely leave it on his doorstep.

Why so much drama from you all. Just drop a note through his door saying you will leave it at his front door the next day if not collected.

Stick a note through the door saying “I’ve kept your parcel for x days, I don’t have room for it, if you don’t collect by y, I’m going to leave it outside my front door for you to collect”
It's due rain this weekend I believe

All those saying RTS good luck with that, I had (identical) massive parcels full of some kind of wipes arriving every few months with barely enough address on them but clearly not for me. Even if I caught the driver and handed it back instantly, they tried 3 days running each time to dump it at our front door. Their GPS handset thing always had a circle on our house on the map despite the only similarity in the address being the first letter of postcode and door number.
If I contacted Amazon they basically acted like they are being really generous saying I can keep it, and totally refused to pick it up. It was half as big as the wheelie bin.
Luckily it seems to have stopped!

I'd open it 🙃

Put a note through door now saying you will leave it outside his house tomorrow at 10am and it’s all his responsibility as people have tried contacting him many times

Put the box behind his car, douse it in petrol, douse car in petrol, set parcel and car on fire. Hide behind a tree/fence. When neighbour comes out to see what’s going on shoot him with a sniper rifle. Call in a tactical air strike on his house. Nuke the house from orbit to make sure. That should stop him doing it again.

This. No longer your problem then

Yeah, his doorstep

@jen337 I think that would definitely sort all future issues 😂

It’s so obvious you should leave it on his doorstep

jen337 · Today 16:37

I got a week's suspension for a not dissimilar post....

Why would she leave it outside her door and not his 😂 and rain depends on where she lives.

@jen337 😂

Where's the issue? Just pick one of these options:

Option 1: put the parcel on his doorstep.

Option 2: (if it's a high-crime area) put a note through his door saying you have the parcel and he can collect it from your house, and if he doesn't collect it by Wednesday or something you'll need to just leave it on his doorstep then as you don't have space to store it indefinitely (then leave it on his doorstep on the day you picked if he hasn't collected it).

This so so weird. Why haven’t you already put it outside his house?

Just leave it outside his front door. It isn't any of your business, he's been extremely lazy by not collecting it.

Whack it on the doorstep.

Infuriating for you OP, but you accepted the problem when you accepted the parcel. Best not do that again in future, especially a large parcel that you don't want in your hallway. If not too heavy to move, just put it in your neighbour's porch. Your suggestion of handing it to another unfortunate neighbour made me smile!

The perils of nobody knowing their neighbours anymore.

Why on earth did you take it in instead of telling the guy to fuck off?

put it in his garden

I was suggesting it tongue in cheek. I'd like to see if another neighbour would be as gullible as me!

It would amuse me to think of the parcel being passed round like .... pass the parcel.

It is heavy and awkward to carry but yes, my plan is to just leave it on his doorstep, which is what he's probably hoping would happen anyway.