Channel 4 "Hunting Britain's Parcel thieves." Why should I feel sorry for people who don't stay in to receive their parcels or don't bother to pick them up?

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My New Year's Resolution is not to take in any more parcels for neighbours as they wait a week or more to collect them, if that. When you eventually find them in and take the parcel round they don't even say thank you and look at you like you're annoying them. If they get them stolen off their doorsteps, serves them right for not making proper arrangements.

Can't say I've had a problem with Amazon. If I order a package I arrange to stay in the day they deliver. If I order a package and I am not going to be in, I designate a safe space. What I most certainly not do is not leave my parcel with a neighbour and then put on a shit face because the neighbour has had the cheek to do them a favour. This no longer flies round my way as from 2026.

Im in when they dump them on the doorstop and dont knock. And imagine calling yourself a delivery person in the modern era its considered acceptable to do this.

The owner will send a very small number back 😂 it’s not like it’s normal for people not to pick up their parcels 😂

only some couriers leave on the doorstep. Royal Mail and DPd aren’t supposed to.

My parcel had a safe space. It was not delivered to the safe space.
When I purchased the item it said delivery Wednesday. Whilst I was out on Sunday I recieved a revised delivery time I did not want. I could not make it home in time for this slot.

DH works from home. I am in usually five or six nights a week.

Why couldn't amazon do what it was supposed to do?

Lockers are their friend.

My neighbours are always grateful when I take in a parcel -which happens very rarely. I had an Amazon order left outside the door. They didn't even knock. This is not unusual.

Where do i start with this.
My most recent parcel 2 days ago said it was out for delivery, ok cool said it was delivered no one came to the door.
Hours later 9.30pm got an email and pic it was outside in my neighbours doorway tucked round the corner.
Parcel my sister orders just a book it had been left out near the bin all night she got an email 2 days later to say it arrived, we had a storm.
Parcel delvered to my bin again, it gets better, the fucker put it in the bin sent me a pic of its been delivered.
My neighbour received my parcels and my downstars neighbours parcels she lives in the other block, how these delvery men and women dont see the name and numer baffels me.
Parcel in october delivery driver throw it over the fence in the garden hand over the fence with his phone takes pic and fucks off.
One lady in our part was waiting days for her parcel to arrive, it was delivered but not to her.
Sent her a pic of it near some paint, she posted it online it was found a week latter it was behind someones shed, that had been on holiday it was wet through.
Oh yes and plenty more.
Its not us not being in or not helping neighbours out.
Its the bloody driver that wont read the street names or numbers or knocks.

A month ago I spotted the Amazon driver wandering around aimlessly nearby, with parcel in hand, and then got back into his van and drove off before I could get out the door to point him in the right direction. Two weeks ago for a different delivery I saw the driver get within a couple of hundred yards, and for whom I was scheduled as the next stop, who then presumably decided he/she couldn't be arsed and so turned around and went back home. I've also had numerous instances where I've, eg, booked the delivery for a Wednesday and then they do an attempted delivery on the Tuesday or Thursday.

You're lucky.

This the bin droppers a £400 laptop sitting in the bin,not on the bin in the bin on bin day.
I got lucky that day our bin collection was cancelled due to strikes.
My friend didnt her ipad went to the tip, that was a faff to sort out.

I have them 'handed to resident' when they've not even knocked on the door ! Just dumped it on the doorstep.

Or I have them 'left in porch'

they can build me one anytime they like. Lying bastards.

my Nextdoor' is FULL if miss delivered parcels,

If you're buying from Amazon Marketplace it's quite common to find that they won't deliver to a locker. Depending on size/shape of the item, or how busy the locker is, even Amazon often won't deliver to a locker for the stuff they've got in their own warehouse.

I took a parcel round a couple of weeks ago and the guy gave me a blank stare, took the parcel off me and slammed the door in my face.

You can try, but my friend is driven demented by it being completely ignored & parcels left on the open doorstep

not sure if the drivers can't read (read English?)

Yes lots of does anyone recognise this door? This gas cupboard?

Best I had was

put in shed… bin got an upgrade

handed to reception… plant pot

😅

They normally put handed to resident on mine when they mean popped in letter box.

If you regularly aren't going to be in though and have no safe place to leave them, why not use lockers or collection from a local shop? If it isn't stolen, surely it would be drenched?

I’ve tried using lockers when away and most of the time I hit the

”this item cannot be delivered to a locker” be it a foldable tent pole or a pair of Shoes.

Where do you live ???

I envisage in the near future we are all going to have our own versions of those safe locker box things installed on our doors or property, where things can be left safely, this is all just a build up and not really sustainable. It will be the new version of the letter box. That's what i hope anyway.
But until then, i won't be turning neighbours packages away and hopefully vice versa.