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?

Why on earth should they apologise to you?? Why were you expecting them to deliver it to you? Your email comes across as being really "entitled "

What email? 😂

When you lost the argument, pick on something tiny and irrelevant

May I ask, genuine question, if something was delivered through your letterbox with someone else’s address on it, 8 doors down/up, as opposed to a ‘parcel’, would you still think it’s up to the intended recipient to come and get it? If so, what would make you think they knew where it was?

It required a photo proving someone accepted it. Because that is how you knew where it was. So signature or not, it needed that to track it.

I'm sure the courier would far rather have just shoved it through as well. Though they should 100% have left a card, to save you being Miss Marple, that's not the neighbour's doing.

Of course you can asked a question. Its a distortion of the situation in the OP though.

If it was my parcel i would contact the delivery company if I was unsure where they'd put it. Definitely so if I was unhappy with them delivering my parcel 8 doors down (justifiable annoyance) The OP choose to look for the address based on the pic and found it. Happy ending.

The neighbour did absolutly nothing wrong and absolutly nothing bad happened here other than bad delivery service.

. . .but we could probly strawman this to try an convince someone that there is a situation where the neighbour can be seen as in the wrong and bad.

Letters generally aren’t tracked. Therefore no reason to think the neighbour would know where it was.

I'd either drop it around if I had a moment, or stick it back in the postbox.

So a signature wasn't needed.... but tracking info was, because a photo was taken. You seem to ignore that fact that royal mail don't take photos of every letter they post. There was a photo of someone taking delivery. It is now deemed to have been delivered to them. If they now come and stick it through your door and it gets eaten by the dog/hidden by a child - you'll be pointing the finger at them. I think it's fully understandable for them to not want to just "pop it through the door".

No it is not! It's your job to get the parcel from where it was misdelivered. Of course it's nice for them to bring it, but definitely not rude for them not to. Especially not within 30 hrs!

How would the neighbour know that? Delivery companies are supposed to leave a slip.

You're missing the point. It's not a situation of being either 'nice' or 'rude' there is an in-between. They weren't extra nice as they didn't bring it. But they weren't rude either as it's not their responsibility whatsoever. They've done literally nothing wrong.

Not really no. It's not their fault the postman gave it to them. But if it fits through a letterbox I don't know why they even knocked on the door.