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Original poster

to NOT take these parcels up the street and deliver?

33 replies

ThatVikRinA22 · 14/02/2010 20:30

on Friday a courier from Next knocked and asked me to take some parcels for a family who live up the street as no one was home. she said she would post a card to say where they were and so they would be collected.

my hallway is small and now cluttered with some one elses parcels. no one has collected them. ive been up to the house a couple of times and no one has answered thought the windows have been open indicating that someone was in?? quite why the courier delivered them to me ive no idea - can only assume that the immediate neighbours were out.

im now inclined to phone the couriers number on the sticker and tell her that no one has collected and to come back for them. AIBU or should i just hang on to them until the family up the road decide to come and get them? or should i just keep trying to do the couriers job for her and keep trying?

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GetDownYouWillFall · 14/02/2010 20:35

It was only Friday the parcels came! Perhaps they were away for the weekend?
Or maybe even for half term.

It's too soon to ring the courier company.

heQet · 14/02/2010 20:35

I would probably drop a note through their door, saying you took them in and have tried to drop them off a couple of times, and they should come down and get them.

Rockbird · 14/02/2010 20:38

Maybe the card is under the doormat and they haven't noticed it. On the odd occasion they've stuck a card through and I haven't noticed it for a day or two. They always leave my parcels by the back door though, never with anyone else. I'd be surprised if they knew you had them and hadn't bothered; anyone I know waiting for Next parcels is usually ripping the courier's arm off!

I'd do what Heqet says and drop a note in.

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ThatVikRinA22 · 14/02/2010 20:40

yeah i know it was only friday but i cant bloody move for them. its alot of parcels and im sick of them already. the hanging ones have no where to hang! why order from next if you know when they are gonna arrive that youll be away for the weekend?

ill send DS down with a note i think. ill give it a couple of days but they are driving me mad - i thought id only have them until the family got home. cant imagine that they have gone away for weekend and left windows open though?

im NOT carting them up the road again.

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Rockbird · 14/02/2010 20:42

They don't always come the next day. I'm still waiting for stuff I ordered before Christmas.

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ThatVikRinA22 · 14/02/2010 20:50

well ive just sent DS with them again - still no reply but he says there is a dog in the window barking so surely someone must be there or going in at least?

have pushed a note through explaining where they are and that we have also tried to deliver them.

so how long would you give it before telling the courier they are still here?

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heQet · 14/02/2010 20:59

Till wednesday would be fair.

Is there really nowhere in your house you can store them? On top of your kitchen units? In the airing cupboard?

SkipToMyLou · 14/02/2010 21:00

If they're in your way, nothing wrong with ringing the courier. If you'd been out too you wouldn't even have the parcels, they're hardly your responsibility!

verytellytubby · 14/02/2010 21:00

Blimey they are probably away for the weekend.

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ThatVikRinA22 · 14/02/2010 21:10

seriously there is no where - im not just making it up to be difficult. my airing cupboard has a boiler in it plus a duvet, rolls of wallpaper etc. the garage is falling down and leaky. the kitchen is being revamped so have enough ofa job finding homes for my own stuff at the min, never mind several bags of someone elses.

i have a sink on my dining table and a hob in the alcove. really truly i have nowhere for these parcels to live. and what if they get dirty or damaged? im decorating.

i dont mind doing people a favour but i didnt expect to have to keep hold of them for days on end.

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GetDownYouWillFall · 14/02/2010 21:40

Did you sign for them? If you did I think they are your responsibility now. It will have your signature on the tracking sheet if the owners query why they never received them.

You probably shouldn't have taken them in if you had no space for them, say no next time.

stressheaderic · 14/02/2010 21:47

How many parcels exactly are there? If it's that massive an order, they must be dying for it to arrive - can only assume they are away or have some kind of emergency otherwise they'd have hotfooted it down the street.

Saying that, if I miss a parcel and it goes to my neighbour, I always wait for my DP to get home from work to go and get it, as next door have a big scary dog

upahill · 14/02/2010 21:54

Flippin heck vicar calm down. It's not like the world has stopped spinning is it. I'm not trying to be light but other people will help you out maybe some time in the future or they have already without you relizing you may have inconvienced someone slightly.
Just do a good turn for your neighbours graciously and you will some how be rewarded back.

alicet · 14/02/2010 22:05

If it was only Friday YABU.

If you didn't have room you should have refused to take them (not unreasonable to do this imho although I would always take parcels for neighbour hoping that they would be happy to return the favour)

I personally wouldn't be carting them up the road on the off chance if there are that manay parcels - i would have popped up to say that you had their parcels and could they please come back with you to get them.

Put a note through their door. If they hadn't responded by Tues I would put another note through their door to say that you really need them to collect the parcels as you don't have the space to store indefinately and if they don't come by Friday you will contact courier to take them away again.

We had an issue with nieghbours who took our parcels in once. They said they had knocked several times but we never heard them. I popper over a couple of times but it was clearly always when they were out. In the end when I popped over they didn't answer the door but opened their upstairs window and shouted out that they had left them by our back door. I was pretty p*ssed off with this tbh - they hadn't put a note through to say they had done this, it was only a couple of days and I had tried to collect the parcel! And they had a pretty large house (although admittedly I had never been inside so no way of knowing if they had tonens of stuff / were decorating etc.

I would just be polite to them and do as i have suggested as above. And if it is inconvenient to keep parcels just say no next time as I do think if you agree to take them you have a duty to look after them until they are collected

compo · 14/02/2010 22:10

A delivery van tried to unload a huge bag of animal feed on me last week for a neighbour, I told him no

lilolilmanchester · 14/02/2010 22:14

agree with others, put note through. If really inconvenient for you, refuse next time, but only if you never need anyone to take a parcel in for you.

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ThatVikRinA22 · 14/02/2010 22:28

my parcels always get left in the leaky garage. no one has ever taken in a parcel for me. im friendly enough with my immediate neighbours to say hi and help out with light bulb changes etc, but this family are not my immediate neighbours. they live several doors away and if they have windows open and a dog they must have been home by now?? so they must know ive got their parcels?

their parcels are likely to have paint on them if they dont come for them soon. ive put a note through. im not an ogre - but i have no where for them to go! how was i meant to know theyd be hanging around my hallway for days on end? i thought they were out temporarily...like shopping or something,and i thought i was doing someone a favour. this is taking the piss slightly.

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alicet · 14/02/2010 22:29

If their windows are open can you not push at least some of their stuff through?

alicet · 14/02/2010 22:33

Or go up now - I eman noone is usually out at this time on a Sunday are they? I wouldn't knock if house is totally dark but otherwise knock, apologise for coming at such an antisocial time but say that you were keen for them to get their parcels asap as you are worried they may get damaged as you are decorating?

alicet · 14/02/2010 22:33

mean not eman

threestars · 14/02/2010 22:34

I'd ask their next-door neighbours if they would take the parcels, as they're more likely to notice when the addressees are at home.

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ThatVikRinA22 · 14/02/2010 22:36

not unless i get a ladder.

its upstairs windows. and the parcels are large. unless you think i should start opening them and posting things individually through their bedroom window...

lets hope they didnt order edible undies then.

no i cant post the stuff through the windows in short..

picture the headlines now....im up a ladder at their bedroom window posting knickers through their window just as they pull up....

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ThatVikRinA22 · 14/02/2010 22:36

actually that gave me a laugh.!

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Maleeka · 14/02/2010 22:37

Frankly it is taking the piss, if there is a dog in the house then surely someone must be looking after it!

I regularly take in parcels for all my neighbours (because i have no life!!!) and they are always collected the same day.

If i had to tiptoe around a load of parcels in my tiny hallway i'd be tempted to put a note in tomorrow telling them that you have workmen coming round and was afraid their parcels might get damaged. If they didnt collet them by tuesday i'd be on the phone to the couriers!

Theres being neighbour friendly, and then theres someone taking the piss!

lilolilmanchester · 14/02/2010 22:38

well then all you can do is refuse to take parcels in next time.

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