Or am I being a parcel stealing, curtain twitching busybody?

[TwilightSkylightsAndA40WattBulb]

Name change.

A video has been posted on a local facebook group that looks like I have stolen parcels. The person who posted it said "what is the world coming to when the local druggy nicks your child's bedtime story books". I'm scared this will get back to my employer. I work for the civil service so if they dont get the full story, I will be sacked. I will tell my boss when she gets in. She wont find it funny and I'm humiliated. I dont take drugs but I did stumble in the video and I have a cold so was wiping my nose a lot which looks bad.

My husband thinks I was niave and shouldnt have got involved. I have the parcels but will I be liable for them if I put them back where I found them because they will get nicked? I dont really want to speak with the person as they are obviously looking for trouble.

I've already commented on the video and have asked admin the take it down.

Our Evri and Amazon driver has started leaving parcels on our doorsteps which are directly on the street. Obviously they arent there when we get home.

I walked past a neighbour's house yesterday. It is a few houses down but I dont know them. They had parcels leaning against their house (directly on the street/pavement). I thought I was being nice. I wish someone had taken in the ebay parcel I had stolen the other day because the item in that was irreplaceable. So I thoight I was being a good neighbour.

The video shows me look at the parcels as I walk past, then come back a few minutes later, pick them up and walk off with them. What actually happened was that I walk past, come back with a note, post it through the door and then walk away with the parcels. I didnt realise there was a camera or I would have made a big drama of posting the note. You can see the door on the video but because of how Im standing you can see Im doing sonething but not that I posted a letter through. The note was an A4 sheet of pink lined paper ripped from a book and folded in half so they would have seen it.

The note said that their parcels were left on the doorstep so Ive taken them in, my house number and that someone will be in for the rest of the day and today.

I dont know what to do with the parcels. I dont want to speak with this person but if I put them back they'll get stolen.

I'm humiliated. I wont do it again.

My husbabd thinks I was interfearing in sonething that didnt concern me and basically asked for trouble. I thought I was just being nice and doing what I wish other people did.

YABU - you should have left the parcels alone
YANBU - you were trying to be neighbourly

You're a lovely, compassionate kind caring & considerate soul
Your profound post has made me also think twice, re jumping in to help some folks 😔Some judge others on their own wrongdoings, project what they might do onto other innocent souls, like yourself
Don't let these narrow minded fools, dampen your sincere sweet soul
&yes let's be slightly discerning from now on, in concerns with whom deserves our help
Wishing You&Yours all the utmost best 💚

If you don’t read the thread you’re a bit stupid and shame on you.

Are you on glue?

Totally agree with you.

Would you prefer to be thoroughly annoyed that your parcels had been stolen from the step as had happened to OP and others or that a kindly neighbour took them in temporarily to prevent that happening?

Yes me too, wholeheartedly 💚 &
So much bad would cease if finger waggers stopped judging the good🙏

Well next time you see their parcels out in the rain, on the street, visible to anyone you can take them in and leave a not like the good neighbour you are leave them there and feel smug when they’re nicked.

And I bet any of your neighbours who see their parcels out on the street will think twice about helping them too.

I'd return the parcels with your husband but you have a legal case against your ungrateful, defamatory neighbour... Such a sad world do we live in... Don't give up being a lovely person that you are.

Probably that they'd get some freebies from people!

Hi Twilight. I think i know what's happened. Your neighbours are away. They haven't been home and haven't gotten your note. They cant answer the door cause they arent home. They saw the parcel being delivered (abandoned by delivery man) on their door cam, and you picking it up. But they didn't realise you put a note in. Im sure they will be happy to get their package back when they realise, and when they are back.

Something similar happened to us in the summer, except our helpful neighbour didn't leave a note. He chucked it over the side gate, where I couldn't see it when we returned that afternoon. We didn't recognise him on door cam.... he was barefoot in trackies, unshaven. We sent the footage to our local police. Later in the evening i happened to see him and recognise the tracksuits, asked if hed accepted a package for us and he told me where it was. I was so mortified going back to station to explain. Luckily i hadn't put it on local Facebook group. But it can happened so easily.

This sounds like a mess I'd get myself into, and I'm famously an over-worrier, to an atrocious degree! (I'm often right though, more and more these days.)

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Haha thats class! They actually sent their son around to collect it as they couldn't face you. I hope they are mortified of their actions.

op you have had some ridiculous comments on here. I do agree that you shouldn't have got involved in the first place but you seem like a good person.

all the best to you.

Has that ever worked for anyone? For me it didnt. There are many couriers that work for either in the area and some will use their heads and hide the items, others just dump them and dont even knock and walk off.

What is the world coming to, you can’t do a good deed anymore

pergaps you ought to have left a note? Hi neighbour, i took your parcels for safe keeping. No 9!

She did.

I feel as if cancel the cheque may have been replaced with leave a note?

I’ve had notes get stuck inside the slot between the inside and outside flaps flaps - it could be trapped inside the door and they haven’t read it

Oh yeah of course, that explains why the son had the note in his hand when he came to get the parcels…

Plot twist, the guy who picked up the parcels was actually a thief who'd been following the Facebook drama! 😆

I love your post 😂😂

Hopefully the neighbours have shown themselves up for who they are rather than the other way round and they’ll now have people refusing to help them because of their reaction.

I suppose taking parcels off the street for people you don't really know was always going to be risky.

Mainly though it seems so daft on the part of the delivery drivers to do this.

The best thing about this thread is 2 days in and people are STILL saying she should have let a note.

Seems like - even though she did on pink lined paper - it proves it was a pointless task as people clearly don’t read 🤦🏼‍♀️🤣

And STILL saying they’d be annoyed that she did a kind thing and prevented them from being stolen. No apology from the neighbour either (it appears). Some people are just awful. So glad I’ve got lovely neighbours.

The easy solution would have been to knock their door with the parcel later on to check if they were home. If they have a ring doorbell you could have spoken to them via that and said I've taken your parcel in for safe keeping I'm at No. whatever. Obviously they didn't recognise you.