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

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You are right OP, or "knock on the door" is the new "cancel the cheque"

This is when the laughing emoji needs to be available.
Some of the comments 🤣🤣🤣🫣🤣

OP I think you did something good and you've had a lot of negativity on here.
I'm glad the parcels are with the neighbours and the posts on Facebook were removed.

I would probably have posted a sarky post too.

Don't stop being lovely.
You left a note 🤷🏼‍♀️ you never stole them. You took them, there's a difference.
If you'd stolen them you would have opened them and if you couldn't use the items then you'd have soled them or gifted them on.
You took them for safe keeping and left a note stating where they were.

Have a good day ☺️

And she'll do what exactly? Discipline you for looking after someone's parcels before returning them YABU to make such a drama out of nothing.

It’s good advice. You’re spiralling. This is nowhere near as bad as you think.

You are not a druggie
You didn’t try and steal the parcels
You were trying to be a good neighbour
You can buy a new coat this weekend if it’s really that bad.

I wouldn’t bother telling your boss - it’s not necessary.

I think I made it clear how I feel. Not sure why the need to ask.
if I’m expecting something I’ll either make sure someone is home or arrange with someone before. So yes, I’d be extremely annoyed if someone took my parcel in.
someone gave my key to a neighbour I can’t stand. I’m not knocking on the neighbours door for my key! I’d rather have the locks changed. So I made them come back and retrieve the key. Ask. It’s not your stuff to do what you want with. If it’s mine, I get to decide.

"You can buy a new coat this weekend if it’s really that bad." - She is busy this weekend.

Write on the post that it was you, that you left a note and can drop them off later.

Normally when I see these sort of posts on FB groups, asking who has their parcel, the person explains they were safekeeping and the recipient is grateful. People confuse me sometimes - I'd be much happier for a neighbour to look after a parcel for me if they saw it on the street (which as I'm in a terraced house, of course couriers leave them on the doorstep to be stolen). I've thought about doing that for other people, but it sounds like it's not something people like so I guess we have to keep to ourselves

Oh yeahhhhhh.

OP, here’s an idea for you that no one else thought of!

The camera she’s said a zillion times she didn’t know was there? 🤦🏼‍♀️

I get this. Our local Royal Mail delivery is hopeless, they leave parcels on the street or shoved under weeds in an empty house, then claim they've delivered it to my chosen safe place the from garden (I didn't choose a safe place and I don't have a front garden).
I am just concerned that someone should try to make you look so bad, do you have history with them?

@TwilightSkylightsAndA40WattBulb

"If you do regularly go out in clothes which don’t fit, then you’re not projecting a great image onto the world. And it does make you look a bit “dodgy.”

You’re a working adult; find the budget for a new coat. And stop interfering with things in future as your street sounds like it’s full of busybodies so it’s more hassle for you than it’s worth."

Are you one of those actors on the moral of the tale type videos who gets their just desserts for being unpleasant to the vulnerable person?

Mind you, they are in plain sight, not hiding behind a keyboard.

Did you mean me? I wasnt being moralistic and announcing to the world that I was trying to do good. I'm not Martin Sheen who does good things just for the publicity.

PS next time make your parcels more interesting than children's books.

What a weird message. This just implies you opened their parcels.

What’s Martin Sheen got to do with it? Do you mean his comments about Trump? Are you a Trump supporter?

Give OP a break will ya

Plot twist -

It was Martin Sheen who is the drug taking, curtain twitching, children's book stealing thief!!

Now, THAT is a film I would see

With Emilio Estevez playing his younger self, in flashbacks as to how he started on his criminal career…

Voiceover by Morgan Freeman -

"it started in kindergarten when Bob was reading Noddy, and I wanted to. He wouldn't hand it over, even when I offered The Hungry Caterpillar in exchange. My swapsies offer was spurned and mocked. My rage was something I had never felt before.

Noddy was MINE, and I would, one day, avenge Bob taking that book from the reading corner.

It led me on a path I had no idea about ... "

It was in relation to something they'd put.

No idea what you are talking about.

Martin Sheen "secretly" cleared some people's debts. That was lovely. Then he advertised what a good man he was for doing that so there was nothing altruistic about it after all.

And as I went through life I gained a very particular set of skills. Skills acquired over a very long career. Skills that would make Bob have nightmares.

I would only do it if I knew the neighbors well and already had a link. So my closeish neighbor who takes our bins out if we are away, who I am in WhatsApp contact with. An elderly neighbor we sometimes meet and do check on (last time her downstairs lights were on all night, that sort of thing).

Sorry you were shamed online. That is shite of them.

Edited for a very random autocorrect

No it doesn’t. The neighbour posted on social media that it was children’s books.