AIBU to think it was rude they kept my misdelivered parcel?

[FrostedCandyAngel]

Was expecting a parcel on Saturday. (Was a small package, in a padded envelope so could easily fit through letterbox, no signature required)

Didn’t get delivered. So I checked the tracking details online Sunday evening. Tracking details said it had been delivered at 09:30am Saturday. It had a photo of the delivery person handing it over. All you can see in the photo is the package, someone’s shoes and their driveway. Which had a particular unique pattern of paving.

It wasn’t my shoes, or my driveway.

I walked up and down my street trying the find the driveway. Found it. About 8 houses down.

Knocked on the door and luckily they answered. I said “Oh I’m just wondering if you have a parcel for number 60 please”. They said yes, and gave it me. No “sorry I was going to bring it round/post it through your letter box”.

I understand people are busy but they had my parcel for 30+ hours. I would have had no idea they had it unless I went out looking at everyone’s driveways.

Was this rude of them?

So they had it for less time than 2 whole days then.
Yabvu, people have lives, it wasn’t their priority and they were probably expecting that you’d been told which address it had been delivered to and would come to collect it.

Your neighbours were nice. They took your parcel in and safely stored it. They don't need to take it and post it through your door. They didn't need to accept it at all and I hope you thanked them for taking it in?

We had one for someone at the opposite end of the street. I was planning to take it up when it stopped raining but they turned up for it about 6pm.

It could have been rectified in seconds but I had to search up and down the road.

Boo bloody hoo. You had to fetch your own parcel! Hardly a life-changing hardship!

Well how the hell would they know the concierge hadn’t told you? Come on, get a grip.

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It really isn’t.

Again…

WHAT HAS THIS GOT TO DO WITH YOUR NEIGHBOURS?!

The neighbours had their photo taken receiving the parcel. This suggests it was an item that had to be handed to a person, and could not be posted. Now, either this was the case, which explains why postie did not post it and quickly handed it to a nearby neighbour who happened to be out in his garden, or it was not the case but YOUR NEIGHBOURS ASSUMED IT WAS.
Think about it- if someone hands you a parcel small enough to go through a letterbox and takes a picture of you, you are likely to assume that (a) you are taking in a parcel that could not be posted through the door (perhaps contains valuables) and (b) the picture will be used to prove the the addressee that it was left with you, in combination with a note on the app or through your letterbox saying “left with number 36”. THE NEIGHBOURS DID NOT KNOW YOU HAD NOT BEEN NOTIFIED.

So they would have thought it incorrect to go and post through your door when postie had nit done that, and they thought you knew they had it.

No one has said it is an acceptable delivery. And OP should indeed complain to the courier. However, that does NOT make other neighbour’s fault. It was her own fault for not checking.

Fuck me, chill out 🤣🤣

ME chill out?! Seriously, read your own thread!!

I’m just way too busy to think about this. By the time we’ve got the kids to bed and cleaned up dinner and got their things ready for the next nights training/dinner plan, it’s 10 pm and we have washing to fold, plants to water, things to do for our kids sports clubs and nursery, work I said I’d send that night, I’ve already skipped the gym as too much on, and if I get to bed by midnight it’s a good day. Give people a break with your judging, it takes me a week to collect my own parcels.

Yeah, YOU chill out 🤣

I’m not the gobshite who thinks her neighbours are at her beck and call.

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Heavy night on the 🍷?

This has happened to me a few times, where a courier has delivered me a parcel that was for another address. It’s always in the middle of the day when I’m working from home, and usually busy in the middle of something, or on a call. Since I get regular parcels anyway, I don’t stop and inspect the address of every one before taking them in! I assume that the courier knows where they should be delivering it!

Also, they don’t always knock on the door. I’ve had someone else’s parcel dumped in my bin before. I only discovered it by chance!

Agree that 30 hours isn’t long at all for redelivering it. I’m working during the day and often out in the evening. I’ll take it round when it’s convenient for me.

Can’t believe it’s just me that thinks this is crazy!

OK but you asked if YABU and you've then posted several times making the same argument again and persistently expressing surprise. That makes the thread slightly pointless.

Tracked delivery needs to take a photo when it's delivered.

Maybe the postie has been told not to post it through the letterbox, and to ensure it's handed to a person?

Either way, your beef is with the Delivery Office, and not with your neighbours.

I never take in deliveries for anyone. If the people concerned are not in. Then it's is is their problem. Same with post.
Just return it to sender

Also on the small estate where l live several moths back, several.parcels were left with new neighbours who swore bilind they had not taken them in. Delivery company denied having a record of this.

This sort of thing does happen.

I think the situation here is that it may very well be that your neighbours were being unreasonable but at the 30 hour mark I think they're still Schrödinger's neighbour: both potentially reasonable and potentially inconsiderate.

I get parcels delivered for the neighbours all the time. I don't give much thought to it at all, especially not at to the size of the parcel etc. Any it may have been a busy weekend. I completely agree that the considerate thing to do would be drop the parcel over but I reckon you've got to give them a bit north of 48 hours before you assume they were being inconsiderate. I don't think they have a duty to immediately stop what they're doing and drop it over.

Depending on what is going on in my own life as to when I dropped it off, but chances are it would be that same day. I know people may be anxiously waiting for it. I'd probably have realized before accepting it that it was not for our house though. But having chronic illness means no guarantees.

If I were the neighbour I would have said - This is not my address, sorry, it is a few houses down - then gone back to my gardening.

If the Postie had said - I couldn't fit this small parcel into no. 60's letter box, would you mind taking it on their behalf. Or I can take it back to the P.O.? And I would have taken it and resolved to deliver it to you over the weekend.

Postie took a picture of the driveway so you could track down your parcel rather than waiting to visit the P.O. on Monday.

I am surprised that a small sentence was not on the tracking information stating exactly which address the Postie had left your parcel. Maybe that would be opening the Postie up to being repremanded for not strictly delivering the parcel, or taking it back to P.O.

Maybe your neighbour didn’t want to go round, find you weren’t home, then have the dilemma of do they put it through your letterbox or not. Because some people will accuse someone else of stealing their parcel - so if you hand it to them, you know for certain they’ve received it.

As for not spotting the name/house number - maybe they were expecting a parcel themselves so didn’t pay attention to the label? I’ve had that before (although it had our address on, it then had a completely different name).

Your anger is misplaced. You should be cross with RM for delivering to the wrong house if the parcel was clearly labelled correctly.

At least they kept it for you, just be grateful! You don't know them or their routine, they may have had 101 things to do or a sick relative to deal with which prevented them brinig it to you!