Taking in a parcel for a neighbour

Are they hot? If so pop round and say you've got a big package for them :D
 
I work from home mostly so the delivery firms pretty much know they can always drop parcels off at ours - hence our hallways sometimes looking like a mini sorting office. Fortunately my wife has a whatsapp group going with the neighbour wives and so just pings them on that if they take too long to collect. :)
 
I just go and collect it as soon as I get home.

majority of my neighbours are old tarts tho and hate everything around them, next door is especially bad. She collects the parcel and then hates your soul when you come to collect it.. surprised she hasn't bitten me yet.

I never had an issue collecting neighbours parcels.
 
Give it till about 8pm (If they're back home at that time) then go and knock, if not, same next day, costs nothing to be courteous, whether they have come for them or not.
 
I wouldn't go and seek them out personally unless I agreed to take the parcel for them. It'd just sit in my hallway until I decided to open it many moons later.
 
Is this what society has become?

We have the guy who's waiting for a parcel, anxious about knocking on the OP's door to collect his FOUR parcels.
And we have the OP who's holding on to 4 parcels anxious about knocking on someone's door to give them some parcels looking to the internet to ask what to do.

This is incredible.
 
Our house number is 19. Got a delivery for 21. Waited a day and he didn't come round so I knocked but he wasn't in. Gave it another day then knocked again. He opened his door and after taking the package showed me a card with the number 19 written on it. He then said "Thanks, I had this missed delivery card but it had the number 19 on it, I'd no idea what that meant."

Some people...
 
Haggisman said:
Why would you call them and not just walk a couple of meters to their door with the parcel?

Unless you live in the middle of nowhere, where "neighbour" means "20 miles away", then realistically you're taking 5 mins of your time at most, and they're likely to return the favour.

Obviously the above doesn't apply if it's something bulky, e.g. furniture, or if they're taking the mick with multiple parcels every day
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On the face of it, you make a valid point Haggisman, but there is only one neighbour that I’m ever asked by a courier to take a parcel in for, and like mine, her house is a 3 storey town house, with the lounge and the kitchen-diner area on the first floor.
However, unlike me, she does not have an intercom linked to her front door, plus she broke a couple of bones in her foot a month or so back, and takes forever to descend the stairs if someone knocks on her door.
This would mean that if I took a chance and knocked at her door without first ascertaining that she was in, I could be standing there like a mug in zero degree weather, wondering if a), she’s in, and b), if she is, how bloody long will it take her to get to the ground floor?
So, as my calling plan gives me 750 free minutes, it’s simpler to call her, and leave a message if there’s no answer, okay?
Oh, and not for nothing, and with the best will in the world, my hand to God, it’s metres, not meters, unless you’re American, in which case I apologise.
 
If they haven't been round to collect it within a week and you know they are not on holiday (seriously who orders stuff then disappears on holiday?) then I'd probably assume that they won't collect it and have probably claimed a refund/replacement from who they parcel was from.

Once took a parcel in for a neighbour yet it was so small, something like a folded t-shirt in a grey postage bag, I managed to fit it through their letterbox so not sure why the courier didn't just do this.
 
Some of the delivery drivers around here don't seem to know what 'neighbour' means. More than a few times I've been asked to take in parcels for people who live two streets away and who I wouldn't know from Adam. They stay sat under the stairs, and if nobody comes to collect them then well...
 
Wow this is a situation I hope I’ll never be in. I’m really sorry to hear that you’re in such a predicament and I hope you find a way to resolve it ASAP.
 
Malevolence said:
Some of the delivery drivers around here don't seem to know what 'neighbour' means. More than a few times I've been asked to take in parcels for people who live two streets away and who I wouldn't know from Adam. They stay sat under the stairs, and if nobody comes to collect them then well...
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Well what?

BabelFish said:
If they don't collect within 3 days they're legally your property
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This sounds like a legal argument from a law school graduate of a school in Abuja,
Nigeria, but I stand ready to be convinced, knock yourself out, I’m waiting.

Vargas said:
This has to be a troll thread lol
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It’s beginning to look that way, but I don’t think it was the OP’s intention.
 
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