People down the road with no address using ours!

[houseofisms]

We live on a road with a camping/touring park down the end. There’s only 4 addresses on our road (including the holiday park)
we often get loads of post for random people whom we assumed lived here previously but from years ago (we suspect it was an unofficial HMO at some point due the Yale locks on every internal door so not an issue, they just get binned)

we had a few Amazon packages delivered here by people staying at the park and needing an address to send it to (without asking) Annoying but fine.

about a year ago, the manager of the park knocked on the door asking for their credit card!!! (I must have binned it but said I hadn’t seen anything) turns out that they can’t get a bank account due to no address (they live in a big caravan with their feral kids on the park so no address) bad credit and this card was their only way of getting money. It took us flippin ages to get it removed from our address as the company refused to make amendments without full details etc.

Ive just had an Amazon delivery in their name! (Partner took it in thinking it was for us)

AIBU - suck it up and behave like a good neighbour and wait for them to collect

YANBU - leave the parcel outside in the pouring rain with a note asking not to use our address again

*they are quite loud and scary and I don’t like confrontation

You think the OP (assuming that's who you mean by "someone") should go to the caravan park and offer to take random, not very pleasant, strangers to the post office to help them set up a PO Box? How do you think that's going to go? They are not some lovely, elderly person who may appreciate some assistance.

Why can't they get Amazon parcels delivered to an Amazon locker or Post Office rather than being all entitled and expecting a random householder to take them in on their behalf. Utterly baffling. Unless they're trying to pull a scam or fraud which is more likely!!

That's their problem. They can get Amazon parcels sent to an Amazon locker or post office. More and more online retailers are providing alternative options such as delivery to a post office, or an "In Post" locker. They can set up a PO box with Royal Mail. It's NOT up to random people living nearby to risk themselves to allow themselves to become unofficial postal addresses for people they don't know.

That's NOT being selfish. It's the other people expecting random people to take in their mail who are being selfish and entitled.

It is not selfish to not want someone else to use your address. As I've said upthread this could affect OPs eligibility to discounts or benefits if her partner left or died because OP lets someone else use their address as their sole and main residence.