To want my parcel - woman denying accepting it but I have a photo..

[BitOutOfPractice]

I ordered some stuff off sports direct (about £20 worth) and, because I haven’t ordered off there for a couple of years, stupidly got it sent to my old address which was stored on the web site. Yes I know it’s annoying and stupid so I don’t need that lecture.

So once I clocked on what had happened, I went round there to collect it - couple of days later. The woman who bought the house off me completely denies having received it, despite the courier’s photo showing it being accepted at the front door. I can see two sets of children’s feet at the door on the picture. I obviously recognise the doorstep - I lived there for nearly 20 years.

Please note, I did not shout or accuse, I was very polite, I said I was “puzzled” and that there must have been some sort of confusion but she was adamant she hadn’t had it. It was a shoe box sized parcel so not massive to store and not easy to lose either.

Do you clever lot have any idea if there’s anything I can do?

I half expected her to come to the door wearing my gym gear 😆

I suspect it was not be taken this far for just your £20 parcel, likely is part of a wider investigation/charges at same address/person

I can only assume they must already be on the police’s radar @BitOutOfPractice, which is probably why they investigated in the first place.

Yeah this. ^ There must be ZERO crime in the OP's town. ZERO!

What a waste of police time and public money to go to all this trouble for a parcel worth £20. 🙄 And now it's going to COURT?! Even more public money wasted. WTAF?!

What a lot of stress and fuss from the OP too.

It's a loss of £20 FGS. 🙄

I bloody hope so. It's utterly batshit for the police to be taking so much action for a theft of goods worth £20. Would never happen with the police in my area. Not in a million years.

Once I ordered a table. Not a very expensive table. But it was massive. A little too massive, so I cancelled the order. Cue two days later a man at the door with said parcel. I said I had cancelled the order and to be away with you and your gargantuan table. Sorted. I awaited my refund! No refund came. Two days later another man and his table arrived so I ushered them away once again. I called the company who said my refund was now issued and winging its way to my account. Ka-ching! The money arrived! The next I had an email to say the sodding delivery company were delivering again the day after! So I thought, sod this, I’m going to keep this next pissing table, and I might set the fucking thing on fire at this rate! I waited for it to arrive all day. Nothing. I had an email to say it had been delivered to some called Zoe 6 streets away! Typical! This Zoe had nicked the table was about to nick! Serves me right.

But I am shocked at the response you got from the police. My daughter got hit by a car 18
months ago and I’m still waiting for them to call back…

??? ^

I hope your daughter is OK, but what on earth is the relevance in that story about 'Zoe?'

Tell her you are reporting it to the police. I mean she knows she didn’t order it and so has dishonestly kept it. It’s obvious it was delivered to her house as there is photo proof.

If the bank incorrectly deposits £1000 into your account, you don’t get to keep it!

My dc are 25 and 22 and just Find it as bemusing as I do!

I’m sort of imagining a crime room, a board with a picture of the sandals, strings going to pictures of the victim (me, looking both forlorn and gorgeous) the perp (in great sandals), the crime overlords (Clarkes?) …I must stop watching too many crime dramas.

in fairness it’s the dreariest dullest commuter town ever. I’m glad I left.

Yes totally agree, it is theft at the end of the day

ahahaja where is the laugh reaction gone?! 😤

It's great your local police have taken seriously and progressed it. Hopefully more forces will start doing the same as all the low level crime going unaddressed is rotting away at societies roots.
Fingers crossed shoplifting is next on the list because we're all paying for that with higher prices.

I agree with you, it’s the sense of injustice and not the way you would behave. A reasonable person (which she clearly isn’t) would want to help you and would be happy to hand it over to you. For those people saying it’s only £20, it’s missing the point. It’s something that leaves a bad taste in your mouth, what ever happened to the moral code of some people. 😡. Maybe some bad karma will get her soon.

I’m not really sure actually…

Oh @BitOutOfPractice I see you did report it! Good for you, don’t let her get away with it, it won’t be that bad at court - just the magistrates in worse case scenario but she may admit it and get a caution or another “out of our disposal”.

Go for it!

'The downside for me is the stress of the whole thing'

Exactiy! Why bother for a 20 quid sports direct item. You made a mistake with the delivery address you should've just let it go.

I'm astounded that the police are pursuing it.

It's a days later. How long were you expecting her to store it for? I'd have left it outside to be collected and put it in the bin in a few days if it hadn't been taken.

A couple of days really isn't a very long time.

"So once I clocked on what had happened, I went round there to collect it - couple of days later."

Skulls need to be metaphorically cracked, and early on in a criminal's career too. A musician at my local venue lost his 450k instrument to a little tea leaf who colluded with venue staff to steal it, then panicked when he realised he couldn't sell on due to watertight registration and it being too distinctive. He handed himself into police in a panic, and surprise surprise... had a long rap sheet of smaller petty offences leading up to the damp squib of a jackpot his dumb ass thought he'd landed 😆

A financial retribution system would work nicely. You're over 21, you get 2 strikes, then on your 3rd conviction the debt collectors descend.

Steal a package worth 20? £100 comes out of your bank account every week for the next 12 months, and straight into the pocket of the person you robbed. And you gotta give up an hour a week for the next 12 months to do their gardening, clean their car, empty their bins etc too while they sip sangria and the neighbours gather to livestream and mock you. Indentured servant style.

Steal a car worth 10k? 30k bounty on ya head and you'll work to pay it off like a student loan repayment. Plus you'll have to pay that person's Uber bills for the next 12 months. No money? All your assets seized and off to the chain gain with ya.

That'll stop the fools.

maybe its just another report against her maybe she steals stuff all the time? i cant see them going to court over 20 quid

I live in a village with a very low crime rate and some bloke went into my back garden early one morning and pinched my son's gym kit off the line. I reported it only because I had ring doorbell footage of the cheeky bastard and I wanted to let the police know that if they had any reports of any important thefts, I had this footage in case it was the same man.

Like with you, they took a statement and everything and I forwarded them the footage of the bloke walking off with my son's stuff up his jacket. It also recorded me using the doorbell to ask him if there was anything else I could help him with. :D

You’ll probably find that this person has form, which is why they’re taking it further. And I really don’t understand the ‘waste of police time’ angle. It’s theft. Investigating it is what the police are there for.

The number of people who think this is not worthy of investigation is quite depressing. It’s theft. And who knows how many times she’s done it.

So were are the pearls? Did you decide to post the bleeding obvious months too late instead 😂