Neighbours using me as a parcel drop off!

[SecretNameforMN]

Is this cheeky-fuckery or am I a miserable old scrooge?

I'm nearly 70 and disabled (physical mobility issues). I have a large pre-printed sign on my front door saying that I am disabled and so no cold callers etc.

Just lately I have been answering the door quite a few times to couriers asking if I would take in parcels for my (fit and active) next door neighbours. This causes me inconvenience thrice - once in having to hobble to the front door with my zimmer frame, and then having to grapple with the parcel and my zimmer frame and lay it down on the narrow hall floor, and then again later when the neighbour calls for his parcel and I have to manoeuvre my frame around the parcel, lift it and hand it to him on the doorstep.

Him calling for his parcels, between 4pm and 9pm depending on when he gets home from work, has interrupted me when I've been right at the back of my house, cooking, it has made me leave my hot dinner on the table to answer the door, disturbed me during a counselling session, disturbed me during a long-awaited phone call with my GP, disturbed me whilst I have been on the toilet and woken me up from a much-needed nap. If I don't open the front door within 30 seconds, both the couriers and the neighbour will keep ringing the bell again and again until I open it.

Today I decided that enough was enough! I am on good terms with my neighbour but we are not friends or anything and I don't owe him any favours or anything like that. So when I was once again called away from my cosy, wrapped up in blankets TV session on the sofa to open the door to yet another courier, I told him NO, I will not take in a parcel for my neighbour, not today and never. He then showed me, on his phone, a note from my neighbour instructing the couriers to always leave parcels with me because I am "always at home".

I can't get over the cheeky fuckery of the man. How dare he give such an instruction without even asking me if I minded?

So, am I right to be livid, or am I a curmudgeonly old grump?

But they keep knocking until the OP answers the door

🤔 I wonder what they would do if op didn't answer the door? Knock all day?! No they would eventually get fed up and leave. The reason they keep knocking is because they know op will answer the door eventually.

My love, it’s a massive imposition even if you were more mobile, you’d still have had your counselling session disturbed , your dinner and cooking interrupted.

they have not even asked you!

they are being huge CF, and you have every right to put up a note saying you’re not accepting deliveries for their household, or anyone else’s except your own.

please don’t think twice about refusing, this has gone on long enough and they are totally in the wrong for imposing this on you.

you’ve been very kind until now, it’s been abused, so things have to change.

Let them knock. Means nothing. Eventually they’ll have to leave

Letting them knock and not answering is really not an option.

OP posted on 20/12/2025 22:45 -

"I can't just not answer the doorbell. I also myself buy on Amazon, as does my house-mate. It's quite enough for me to have to go to the front door once or twice a day for our own parcels. The neighbour is doubling that!"

There is taking in the odd parcel for your neighbours and there is turning your house into a post office holding depot.

One is being kind and doing the odd favour for your neighbour. The other is taking the piss.

Insist he comes in for a cup of tea every time he pops round to collect a parcel, and have a few favours lined up for him to do for you while he's there. Be extremely insistent. They'll soon stop.

Yeah I had a similar issue with a neighbor, so I bought a do not disturb sign for my front door and hang it when I don't want to be disturbed. They too had put me down as delivery person 😒
I don't mind the occasional packes but when it becomes a weekly or daily occurrence it takes the mick.
You can get this sticker from Amazon. I'd buy it and get it on the door pronto.

This was happening with my Amazon parcels. Neighbour was fed up of parcels getting dropped off even though I never said to leave them with her. I have a safe place they can be left at. But if they hadn’t been left with neighbour I was finding them behind a bin or in recycling bin. I managed to reset my safe space. The safe space is an enclosed side entrance that doesn’t need a key. It’s pretty much next to our front door so hard to miss. But you have to confirm every so often they can be left in there. If i don’t confirm they can’t open the door and leave parcels in there.

That’s so cheeky of your neighbour! They should’ve asked you.
Mine did the same - I’m a new mother on maternity leave and hubby WFH. Neighbours kids were ADDRESSING their parcels to be delivered to my door not theirs! Their mother had the cheek to ask, “don’t you work from home?” when I refused their parcels as it doorbell kept waking my baby up.

People don’t vandalise or even look at Ring doorbells because they’re so ubiquitous nowadays. I’d definitely get one, that way you can tell the courier through the doorbell that you won’t be taking parcels in. Put a note on the door in the interim too. He’s an absolute chancer.

My neighbour has it set on their Amazon settings that they should knock at my house. It grinds my gears. The neighbours also don’t come and knock to pick up the parcels. I principle I now just leave the parcel in my hall, and wait for them
to come rather than me looking for when they are in and taking it round. I had a parcel for a week a while ago before they knocked.

We take them in for neighbours but we are young with no physical disabilities, I don't blame you for not wanting to if its a lot of effort to get to the door