Someone keeps sending parcels to my house, what is this??

[Jennajenjen]

And they are getting bigger and bigger,

every week for 4 months now

first time I thought it was mistake, put up a note on building door saying “KATE J, come to flat 1 get parcel”

this lady showed up, apologised

second time it happened, I put up a sign again, she apologised and put a 10 pound note in my hand, said this is for bothering you, I insist! and walked off

third time it happened, I put up note again. this woman never showed up, I returned parcel to post office

since then I’ve been getting her parcels like ever week and they are getting bigger and bigger.

this has been going on for 4 months now

I keep refusing to take them (sometimes they just leave on my doorstep and i take them to post office to return) but I am wondering what is this?

My husband is a postman. A whole drug courier system was uncovered in which parcels containing drugs were being delivered to people's addresses with someone else's name. The named person would then knock on the door to collect their parcel, thereby avoiding the drug parcels being delivered to their own address. I wouldn't be taking in these parcels. Just leave them outside or refuse to accept at all.

I think its if a company is fake, they choose a random address as their 'Head Office' for people to return their parcels to get a refund. People send their parcels, reassured they will be refunded. OP is left to deal with the fallout of millions of parcels! Is it cheap crap clothing OP?

I would just put up a note on the door saying DO NOT LEAVE ANY PARCELS FOR XX. Not at this address. That way if any are left I'd just take a photo with the package and sign visible, send it to the delivery company and tell them the parcel is being left there for them to collect. Then leave it.

Good luck with putting up a notice. Yes the parcel box was big enough. One of many deliveries recently.

@Imdunfer that's almost hilarious but I can imagine it's actually bloody annoying.

Given the likelihood of some sort of scam going on, I'd take them in and then contact the seller explaining this and ask for them to collect them.

Have you checked your credit report to make sure the dodgy deliveries aren't turning up on it, linked to your address?

I also think I have read this before on here. But when I read it last time, the person who was having the parcels sent to her neighbour's address - they lived in the same block of flats - turned really nasty when the recipient stopped taking the boxes in...

Check your credit record to make sure she hasn’t registered herself there and applied for credit.

We've had a similar experience whereby we've received small parcels addressed to some who doesn't live here for at least 18 months. The outside of the box seems to suggest they've come from the US. I didn't scan the QR code.
Eventually I opened them - testosterone gummies and male enhancement tablets.
We've tried giving them back to the post man - on one occasion they resealed the packet and delivered it the next day 🤦🏻‍♀️
About 4 months ago I asked on our local FB group if anyone recognised the name - it's a neighbour. I started dropping them off - no one answers the door. No change, they still come.
Yesterday my peri meno brain took over and I emptied the tubs onto their footpath and left the packaging. I feel like they need to be inconvenienced to actually act to cancel the subscription they're not always receiving.

Now I'm worried a dog is going to snaffle the gummies.

I think you need to report this to the police (non-emergency line) or online. It sounds to me that it's likely a scam. Possibly using a stolen credit card. The fact the woman's profile is in Italian, and your MIL spoke to her in Italian and she scarpered quickly is suspicious. That might be the reason why she's not collected further parcels. I would take a screenshot of the Facebook profile, you might be able to attach the screenshot to the report. If you get another parcel, take a photograph of it, and attach it to the report. If you call the non-emergency line, they may give you an email address to attach photos etc. They may also be able to advise what you can do going forward.

Probably nothing to worry about. It’s most likely just to be drugs and weapons.

Dodgy! Anything could be in them!
Refuse them all!
And maybe get a return address off one of the parcels if they do look legit and ring them and tell them it's the wrong address.

Sounds like paying you £10 is a bribe, and she is testing the water.

Never hand over parcels that have been addressed to YOUR address, even if somebody comes along to collect them. Deny all knowledge and tell them to jog on.

Either refuse to accept them in the first place or return to sender.

Call non-emergency police and see what they say. Then, depending on how that goes, I'd be tempted to put something on a Facebook neighbourhood group if you have one, so other people are aware and maybe to shame/alarm her if it is a scam.

1. start asking to check the name on parcels when they're delivered so you don't take them in at all (I had to start doing this because our next door neighbour has the same first name as me and similar surnames and we've both accidentally opened each other's parcels)
2. agree with people saying it's probably a scam if it keeps happening with large parcels (another neighbour has cards delivered to ours each birthday, Christmas, and mother's day but that's just because her daughter gets the house number wrong every single time!)
3. at first it did sound kind of funny, like it could be a practical joke or an episode of a sitcom where eventually you're taking in boxes that fill a room but if it's some random neighbour I doubt that very much
4. you can report your concerns and suspicions to UK's Home for Reporting Cyber Crime & Fraud - Report Fraud
5. we also have neighbours who refuse to take in any parcels for anyone else at all and have a note saying such on their door
6. start getting empty boxes of maddening size delivered to her address (don't do this)

My first thought was it's drugs, or equipment for producing drugs. Definitely report to the police.

it might be that she's entered her own address wrong on Amazon... but the giving you money suggests scam.

She is probably running up debt using your address.

Leave a note on your door XX DOES NOT LIVE AT THIS ADDRESS DO NOT LEAVE PARCELS FOR THEM. And put a big note on the inside of your door to remind everybody who answers the door to check the name and refuse if not one of your names.

This happened to us with a pair of trainers - it's a scam, using your address to buy goods on a stolen card.

• Check name on packages to avoid taking more in
• Put note on door for couriers saying packages not to be left unattended
• Tell the person you have reported it (if you see them again)
• Get an Equifax subscription for at least the next 12 months (£ unfortunately) to make sure your own credit is not being impacted in any way

Put a sign up saying any mail delivered here for this address but so and so name, does not live here and I am not accepting these parcels. Please do not leave them.

open your credit files and also pay for the membership - you don’t get a full idea of what is going on until you start paying for full use - someone was doing exactly the same thing thin and they had hacked into my credit file and were using my address and good credit rating to take out loans and credit cards and order all sorts on HP etc but getting it delivered to my house!! It’s a scam and you need to check exactly what is going on and don’t give ANY of these parcels to these people!! Send every single one back and tell the couriers to take them back!!

Are they all from the same original sender or do they vary? And have you opened one for a cheeky peek?

Personally, I’d be suspicious that someone was having drugs posted to them but didn’t want to use their own postal address.

A neighbour across the road had similar. She’s number 43 and the parcels were addressed to the person who lived at 34. She said it’s so the person who ordered can say to the company they bought the stuff from that it wasn’t ever delivered to their address so can they have a refund. She refused to take any more deliveries for them