Neighbours and parcels

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My partner works from home and I’m currently home on maternity leave. Our next door neighbours are aware of this, they are young and both work full time.

Nearly every day we are getting parcels for them, it’s getting beyond a joke now. I’ve I’m not home my partner, keeps being disturbed from his work and having to go downstairs to answer the door.

It’s not too bad if I’m home, but it’s still a pain and multiple times if I’ve not answered the door because the baby is napping on me and I can see the delivery driver and know it’s not ours I’ve had the delivery drivers coming and banging on the living room window and waking the baby up.

If we’re not home, we’ve had delivery drivers searching all over our property to leave the parcel, because we’ve got a garden and a side entrance.

I didn’t mind taking the odd parcel for them but this is getting silly now.

It’s not even like they come and collect the parcels from ours, they will sit at ours until we take them around to them. She must know that they have been delivered because she will have had notifications.

AIBU for refusing her parcels and asking her to leave delivery instructions not to leave parcels with us?

Get a sign like this and stick it on your front door:
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99% of things can be delivered to the post office

Omg the cheek of them not even coming to collect them either!

So say no 🤷‍♀️

Let the neighbours know that’s it’s too much what with work and young children. Then stick a note on the door

I would put a note up, saying-:

‘We have a baby in the household-if they are sleeping, I really don’t want them woken up! Please only knock/ring if you have a parcel which is addressed to us, thank you :)’

We had similar for a house on our lane I simply told the postie that we are not willing to take them as neighbours dont collect them and we end uo dropping them round. So they go back to sorting office and neighbours have a 6 mile drive.
Some people are too thick to learn.

Tell your neighbours you can’t take in their parcels anymore.
Put a note on the door saying you do not take in neighbours parcels.

No one should be leaving instructions to have their parcels delivered to a neighbour without the neighbour agreeing.
If a parcel is delivered to the wrong address just leave it in the front garden, near the gate as it’s not yours.
Your neighbour will soon learn to make other arrangements

unfair to send them to others, absolutely.

However, I don't know when my parcels will turn up, and I am not staying home 24h a day just in case. If I bother with deliveries, it's pointless to have to schlep to a drop off point.

If I get deliveries to post office, I might as well get to the shop. Completely negate the point of deliveries!

So do you have a safe place for them to be left in
Eg. Hidden area at door or a shed or something.
What happens if you are out, do they re deliver.

I would have done most of my shopping online and often I'd have asked the delivery drivers to leave it doorstep but they've taken it upon themselves to try my neighbours anyway. Id speak to the next door neighbours and just say it's disruptive for your baby's naps and you need them to say that parcels cannot be left at your property any more. I'd reiterate this with drivers as well and maybe get a no cold calling sign to put at your front door

Why on earth do you take them round. Just let them sit there. When they come round you can then take 10 mins to find them. Every time. They'll soon find an alternative safe space.

Put a note on the door saying please don't knock. Baby sleeping.

Who’s making these deliveries? If like to request this courier. Deliverers only ever drop and run here - no knock on the door ever.

I take parcels for one side as they collect. The other side can fuck off.

They are being selfish, because - as they know - said deliveries will go to the neighbours instead of being left in a box etc. And it is nearly every day.

Most couriers try neighbours with out being instructed
I have NEVER put instructions on for parcels to go to neighbours but it happens
most of the time there left round back of house

I wouldn’t assume like others that the neighbour is a twat expecting OP to take them in

We took a parcel in for the neighbours, they never came for it. I took it round after about six weeks and she said, we thought you decided to keep it. I was gobsmacked. Now we have a sign saying working from home don't ring the bell.

YANBU. Tell them why you won’t take any more, refuse to take them off couriers at the door and put a sign up: sorry - unable to accept deliveries for other addresses.

Also - stop dropping any round. Leave them on the step, whatever the weather. You’re busy and they’ve not asked - they’ve just added you as their ‘safe place’ as you’re convenient: always in and you bring the stuff round!

Not really, Most people have a post office near them...

Do they?

Put a sign on the door saying “please do not knock with parcels for any other address, as baby is sleeping”.

For starters, stop taking the parcels round!

Open one as you thought it was yours!