Signed for a neighbour's parcel but they have moved out.

marleyboy

There WILL be a returns address on the parcel\invoice, so its not too difficult to phone company and let them know. Whichever way you look at it, opened and\or kept is theft. You have NO legal rights to keep the item, particularly as it is not addressed to you.

There is no use in fudging around the issue of should I or shouldn't I, you can clearly see the contact address, know full well what your rights are regarding ownership and how to go about contacting the courier.

Skipping any of those guidelines is theft, and if caught the consequences are your own doing. You know the risks involved, whether or not you take that risk is entirely up to you, the ball is solely in your court.

teh_catt

well the outcome is - the owner chased it up with the supplier and came to collect it today. I HADN'T opened the parcel so all is fine with the world again and my conscience remains intact. I would still be interested in hearing the defeinitive legal position on this kind of thing though as it seems like signing for goods for neighbours is probably not a great idea on the whole...

Does make you wonder what kind of idiot orders a new laptop and gets it delivered to somewhere he moved out of months ago though...

DCFC79

teh_catt wrote: »

Does make you wonder what kind of idiot orders a new laptop and gets it delivered to somewhere he moved out of months ago though...

well that person maybe a fool, he knew he was moving out so why not tell the website unless it didnt go down the food chain

hcb42

I am not sure I understand the motivation between either of these "neighbour" parcel threads today.

It isn't a huge hardship to contact an organisation and say it has been sent to wrong address, come and collect it, or send me a prepaid label - surely. To me, not doing that is morally wrong. If you report it and they then don't collect it, fine, there is only so much you can do.

Mk14:37

How did you know it was a laptop?!

T_T_2

Mk14:37 wrote: »

How did you know it was a laptop?!

It must have been a windows laptop. You only need to have a windows laptop in your home and the microsoft owls start trying to deliver 'updates' through your letter box, chimney, radiators etc (much like in Harry Potter )