Here we go again!! Parcels aagh!!!

mountainofdebt

krisdorey wrote: »

The phrases two wrongs don't make a right and turn the other cheek spring to mind.

What the neighbour has done in the past (and we only have one half of the story) doesn't merit theft as some people are advocating. If you're not feeling good natured then just leave it where it is but don't steal it.

Thank goodness someone has posted this - was being to think I was the last sane person on the planet (and THAT is saying something).

whilst I can see where the OP is coming from (we have a neighbour who has been so rude to the point that I want nothing to do with him (and I refuse to to send him a christmas card -if OH wants to write it then that's fine by me) I would like to think I've been brought up better than to a) refuse to take a parcel in for him or b) deliver a parcel had one been left in the manner as detailed in the OP.

OP for goodness sake if you don't want to give the parcel to him yourself isn't there any one else that you can give it to so they can deliver it? Sounds as if by not delivering the parcel it would just escalate the whole bad feeling that there is between you

George_Michael

mountainofdebt wrote: »

Sounds as if by not delivering the parcel it would just escalate the whole bad feeling that there is between you

Unless of course, the neighbour has totally flipped and the package contains a machete, hockey mask, bottle of quick lime and a shovel.

mountainofdebt

George_Michael wrote: »

Unless of course, the neighbour has totally flipped and the package contains a machete, hockey mask, bottle of quick lime and a shovel.

But there again it might be a 'sorry i've been such an idiot' present as well

fluffnutter

George_Michael wrote: »

Unless of course, the neighbour has totally flipped and the package contains a machete, hockey mask, bottle of quick lime and a shovel.

mountainofdebt wrote: »

But there again it might be a 'sorry i've been such an idiot' present as well

In both cases then, the OP's wise to keep it

mattyprice4004

Annabee wrote: »

I am not advocating s/he keeps them, just dumps them, FGS! Have you read what his/her neighbour did? For a normal neighbour, yes you should do the decent thing and alert them to the existence of the parcel, but this neighbour has used threatening behaviour/harassment against the OP in the past, so why should he/she go to ANY effort on their behalf? I certainly wouldn't.

Why should he/she go to any effort?
Because, as you quoted (God knows why you didn't read it) it's the law that they must be informed.

How can you quote something, and then post something completely to the contrary? Baffling.

Annabee

The specific law was not mentioned ( just 'it's the law, ner-ni-ner"!) , and that was what I was asking for. Anyway have looked this up myself and there doesn't seem to be anything about informing the buyer, rather the sender (Amazon I suppose in this case). It remains the seller's property until actually delivered. But anyway all this is surely irrelevant unless the parcel was actually accepted into the OP's house, which it wasn't.

I really don't understand what you are trying to say "how can you quote something and then post something completely to the contrary". Are you saying that you should only quote other posters if you agree with them? Because that's not how it works.

mountainofdebt

Can't believe that people are still suggesting that the OP leaves it where it is /.trashes it / keeps it.

Words fail me

Annabee

words fail you? Good.

MamaMoo_2

I have a next door neighbour who is a complete tool. Recently, a courier threw his parcel over the fence and into my side alley thinking it was his. I bought the parcel around when he got home, and he was very grateful as it was Christmas stuff for the kids and the courier hadn't bothered posting a card.
Worked out well for me, as when I was out a couple of weeks later, they took in a stack of stuff for me, and brought it all round later. The red slip didn't specify a number of parcels, so they could have just brought one around and feigned ignorance about the rest, but they didn't.
Sometimes is pays not to be a !!!!!!.

Anouchka

My nearest neighbour (flat upstairs from me) has not been a good neighbour (to put it very mildly). She regularly shops from catalogues and Amazon but is out a lot and in the past many different delivery drivers have expected me to take in parcels for her.
Through gritted teeth I used to do this, as I still do for any other neighbour when asked. However this all stoped a couple of years ago when she accused me of having kept a QVC parcel that most certainly had not been delivered to my flat.
Since that day I have refused to take in any parcels for her, much to the annoyance of several delivery drivers. I obtained a sticker from Royal Mail stating that any items of mine they were unable to deliver are to be returned to their collecting office. Although this does not apply to couriers, interestingly since this has been on display I have not been asked to take in any parcels for her.
The law and morals aside, this lady has shown no respect either for me or my family (parties, shouting, loud music, banging and crashing about in the night etc. etc) and I have absolutely no inclination to do anything for her or indeed to expect her to do anything for me. Therefore, were I to find a parcel
addressed to her in my bin I would completely ignore it and continue to fill the bin. My bin is kept in a very public place, I have no control over what someone else puts in it and who can prove that I in the habit of checking what is in my bin - which I am actually not?
Petty - yes very - I would not take this line with anyone else's parcel but this particular woman has pushed me almost to breaking point on many occasions so I (and I don't expect anyone else to agree with me - except perhaps someone who has had to live with someone like my neighbour directly above them and might just understand) would feel no guilt about my chosen course of action.