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Neighbours and parcels

105 replies

LA1311 · 13/12/2024 07:16

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?

OP posts:
HoundsOfHelfire · 19/12/2024 05:52

Put a sign saying ‘sleeping baby or working do not disturb, no parcels for next door’

Manara · 19/12/2024 06:09

Did OP never come back?

@LA1311 did you stop accepting parcels?

I order parcels to the home as DH WFH 3 days a week but Sod’s Law the parcels are usually delivered on the days he’s in the office.

The parcels get left on our doorstep and nothing has been stolen yet in all these years. A lot of people pass by but they’re all residents as the road only leads to homes and an apartment building.

We make sure we are home for anything valuable.

ClaudiaWankleman · 19/12/2024 11:57

IAm16StoneHalloween2024 · 18/12/2024 19:34

Well, they saw me three times, close enough to speak, and instead of saying ‘yes, I’ll walk up your garden path and fetch it from your hallway right now’, they chose to just say ‘ok I’ll collect it later’. And they saw me multiple times being out and about and didn’t offer to fetch their own parcel. It can only be concluded that the three week delay was their fault.

You have to be responsible for minimising your own grief. As it stands, you had control over alleviating the circumstances that wound you up, and you didn’t alleviate them. That is only down to you. Sorry you can’t see that.

IAm16StoneHalloween2024 · 19/12/2024 12:30

ClaudiaWankleman · 19/12/2024 11:57

You have to be responsible for minimising your own grief. As it stands, you had control over alleviating the circumstances that wound you up, and you didn’t alleviate them. That is only down to you. Sorry you can’t see that.

Grief? I don’t understand?

ClaudiaWankleman · 19/12/2024 16:29

IAm16StoneHalloween2024 · 19/12/2024 12:30

Grief? I don’t understand?

Yes. It’s given you grief. It’s a synonym of trouble or annoyance. Perhaps you could try Google next time?

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