Neighbour asked me to take in her parcel whilst she went out

[ready4sunshine]

So yesterday I got a message from a neighbour who lives two doors down to me to ask if I would be able to take in her parcel to my house.

Her parcel had already been delivered and was left in a safe place in the side where she usually had her parcels delivered.

It was raining and she wanted me to bring it in.
I did it but was slightly annoyed as why order a parcel if your going to be out?

This is the third time this has happened now.

I am aware our mutual neighbour refuses to accept her deliveries and even has a Royal Mail Opt out sticker on her letterbox.

I have only ever spoken to her three times. All related to her deliveries. She dosent even say hello usually.

I don't want this to be a regular thing but as I am on the neighbourhood watch group chat she just messages me now.

I don't want to be seen as rude or ignorant but I don't want it becoming a regular habit.

She sounds horrible, no cat or any other animal is ugly. She has an allocated safe place, she can put a,parcel box or bin there for when it's raining, I wouldn't open any more messages.

Just say no.

Don't read her message until the evening, or turn off read receipts. Pretend you didn't see it until it was too late.

She can go swivel then.

Fair enough. I’ve had better experiences

Can you mute the chat? And/or be presenting on a vital Teams all day call?

I would just archive her messages and never open them.

And I thought 'going round telling everyone your cat got killed' was jumping the shark...

Acquiesce

The nicer you are to people the nicer they feel they should be back. Kindness is infectious.

1. Change your profile picture to your cats.
2. Leave all her messages as unread from this point onwards.
3. Occasionally send a photo of your cats then follow up with a "whoopsie, that was meant for my friend also called Doris, hope you enjoyed the photo anyway hehe"

This. I never understand why on here it’s such a big ask of people. I take parcels for neighbours, they do for me. Surely that’s a much nicer world than saying no?

I'd really struggle to get upset over this. I often ask a neighbour to look out for a parcel and vice versa. How much effort is it really?

Well that's not true

You don’t get much choice for a delivery slot, but you could just ignore the message and - if you want to stay on good terms- reply ‘sorry didn’t read it in time’ in the evening. Or ignore, if you’re not interested in maintaining a relationship. But my neighbours and I do accept parcels for each other, it’s not that big a deal I think.

'Why order a parcel if you're going to be out?' is a bit of an odd line of reasoning.
Can't you just say yes if you are ok to take her parcels in, no if you're not?

If I was in I would just take in the parcel. If I was out I would say sorry I am out. I also don't get the big deal about parcels on here, unless someone is having 10 deliveries per day or something!

are you taking the piss?
You don't like her because she hurt your cats feelings?!
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

She can rearrange the delivery for when she is home.

Are you new to life? Heard the phrase CF?

Crikey, you'd hate me. I often call my own cat much worse than that. He is well loved and looked after but he still behaves like an utter twat. I really don't think I have wounded his poor little cat soul. He seems pretty satisfied with his life, biting people's ankles, depositing half dead rodents all over the place, knocking things of shelves, drinking from anything but his water bowl.

The nicer you are to people the more you get the piss taken out of your kindness.

It's also assuming you're in control of parcel delivery! Most parcels I order say 3-5 days. Am I expected to not leave the house for that entire time?

You can say what you like about your own animals though.

It's a bit like how you're the only one allowed to be mean to your siblings. No one else is and will get all manners of hell rained down if they do.

We keep having this exact same thread. Is there a parcel troll in our midst 🤔