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Delivery firms asking me to take packages in for neighbours
jaylee3
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Am I the only one who gets irked by this LOL?
Yes I know it's a trivial vent, before the 'first world problems' and 'you must lead a blessed life if this is all you have to worry about!' comments come out.
It's more of a 'I'm fed up of it,' and 'is anyone else fed up of it too' kind of post.
It happens not too often (maybe 5-7 times a year,) but I hate it when a delivery driver knocks my door and asks me to take something in for a neighbour. For a start, I don't really know many of the neighbours (they seem OK, but they're not 'friends,') and I don't like taking responsibility for someone else's goods. I also had a bad experience of this several years ago, when someone had an item delivered, and I signed for it, and gave it to them later that day, and they told the company who sent it that I never gave them the item.
I also think that the person who is having an item delivered usually knows these days what time it's due (roughly) because you can track it. So why does that person not make sure they are in at that time, or why do they not ask for it to be left in an outbuilding, or make sure someone is in their house to receive it, or ask a neighbour who they know, to accept it for them beforehand. And then they can sign a docket when that nominated neighbour hands the package over, to say they received it off them when they get the package off them. (This covers everyone then. )
If *I* have to sign to say I have received a neighbour's package, then they should have to sign to say they had it off me. So when the delivery company gives me the package and takes my signature, they should give me something for the neighbour to sign, for when I give it to the neighbour.
Whenever I send for anything, I leave instructions to leave it in the garage if I am not in (although I do try and make sure I am in - or someone is) for when the delivery is due. I think it's unfair to expect people to have to take responsibility for my packages. I don't expect people I don't really know to do it for me, and I don't expect to have to do it for anyone else.
This morning someone came from a certain delivery firm and asked me to take in a package for someone 3 doors up. I had my excuse ready. I said 'sorry, I am going away in an hour or 2 for a few days, and there is no guarantee of when I will give the person the package.' He said 'Oh ok then,' and went. He knocked on 3 or 4 other doors down the road, and nobody answered, then he knocked on one opposite (but down the road a bit,) and still came back up the road with the package, so that person must have said no too.
Like I said, the recipient should have arranged for someone to take it in for them if they knew they weren't going to be in.
Anyone else get a bit narked with being asked to take packages in?
Yes I know it's a trivial vent, before the 'first world problems' and 'you must lead a blessed life if this is all you have to worry about!' comments come out.
It's more of a 'I'm fed up of it,' and 'is anyone else fed up of it too' kind of post.
It happens not too often (maybe 5-7 times a year,) but I hate it when a delivery driver knocks my door and asks me to take something in for a neighbour. For a start, I don't really know many of the neighbours (they seem OK, but they're not 'friends,') and I don't like taking responsibility for someone else's goods. I also had a bad experience of this several years ago, when someone had an item delivered, and I signed for it, and gave it to them later that day, and they told the company who sent it that I never gave them the item.
I also think that the person who is having an item delivered usually knows these days what time it's due (roughly) because you can track it. So why does that person not make sure they are in at that time, or why do they not ask for it to be left in an outbuilding, or make sure someone is in their house to receive it, or ask a neighbour who they know, to accept it for them beforehand. And then they can sign a docket when that nominated neighbour hands the package over, to say they received it off them when they get the package off them. (This covers everyone then. )
If *I* have to sign to say I have received a neighbour's package, then they should have to sign to say they had it off me. So when the delivery company gives me the package and takes my signature, they should give me something for the neighbour to sign, for when I give it to the neighbour.
Whenever I send for anything, I leave instructions to leave it in the garage if I am not in (although I do try and make sure I am in - or someone is) for when the delivery is due. I think it's unfair to expect people to have to take responsibility for my packages. I don't expect people I don't really know to do it for me, and I don't expect to have to do it for anyone else.
This morning someone came from a certain delivery firm and asked me to take in a package for someone 3 doors up. I had my excuse ready. I said 'sorry, I am going away in an hour or 2 for a few days, and there is no guarantee of when I will give the person the package.' He said 'Oh ok then,' and went. He knocked on 3 or 4 other doors down the road, and nobody answered, then he knocked on one opposite (but down the road a bit,) and still came back up the road with the package, so that person must have said no too.
Like I said, the recipient should have arranged for someone to take it in for them if they knew they weren't going to be in.
Anyone else get a bit narked with being asked to take packages in?
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Just tell them you dont accept packages for security reasons.
My employer forbids it without they are x-rayed at head office and I can not go in to any more detail.I do Contracts, all day every day.0 -
Possibly... although I cannot speak for the rest of the world.Am I the only one who gets irked by this LOL?
I am only too happy to take in parcels for my neighbours.Anyone else get a bit narked with being asked to take packages in?
It causes me no inconvenience and at the same time helps both my neighbour and the delivery driver.
"maybe 5-7 times a year" you say. Oh dear.0 -
Can't say it particularly worries me, we live in a small cul-de-sac and take parcels in occasionally as we know most of our neighbours reasonably well, they will also take parcels in for us if necessary, however if you are not happy to do it just refuse and say sorry but I do not want to be responsible for other peoples parcels.0
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Possibly... although I cannot speak for the rest of the world.
I am only too happy to take in parcels for my neighbours.
It causes me no inconvenience and at the same time helps both my neighbour and the delivery driver.
"maybe 5-7 times a year" you say. Oh dear!
I wondered how long it would be before someone came along and ridiculed what I had said? :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: Do people sit there and wait for someone to post something, so they can post put-downs!
8 minutes in before someone said something sarcy though? I think this may be a record for me. It's usually at least 10-12 minutes before someone posts a put-down.
Well done. :T(•_•)
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I also think that the person who is having an item delivered usually knows these days what time it's due (roughly) because you can track it.
You've never dealt with Yodel, have you?
I had a package with them due for delivery on the 8th January. Between the 3rd and 5th it was sitting in one of their hubs then on the 6th they just decided they'd try to deliver it. They only informed me of this attempt to deliver it at 11:03am on the 6th January, despite the fact that they operate a 7am to 9pm delivery service.
Yeah, I missed that. It didn't end up with a neighbour though.
I tried to reschedule it back to the 8th January but they said as my parcel was "on the way" (???) they couldn't change the delivery date. So they tried again on the 7th.
I did eventually get it on the 8th, which was the day it was supposed to show up.
Now, obviously, in my case it never ended up with a neighbour (although a parcel today, that I had no idea was coming, from Hermes did) but you shouldn't assume that people are always aware of what time a delivery is coming, or even what date, particularly when the largest parcel courier in the UK, Yodel, apparently have a "we'll try whenever the hell we feel like it" attitude.0 -
Marktheshark wrote: »Just tell them you dont accept packages for security reasons.
My employer forbids it without they are x-rayed at head office and I can not go in to any more detail.Can't say it particularly worries me, we live in a small cul-de-sac and take parcels in occasionally as we know most of our neighbours reasonably well, they will also take parcels in for us if necessary, however if you are not happy to do it just refuse and say sorry but I do not want to be responsible for other peoples parcels.
Thanks folks.
To Marktheshark: yes I guess that is a good idea: I could just say I won't take them in for security reasons.
An cajef, yes, I could just say something as simple as I don't want to be responsible for them. It annoys me though, that I am put in that position.(•_•)
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I wondered how long it would be before someone came along and ridiculed what I had said? :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: Do people sit there and wait for someone to post something, so they can post put-downs?!
3/8 minutes? I think this may be a record for me. It's usually at least 10-12 minutes before someone posts a put-down.
Well done. :T
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Our neighbours take in parcels for us sometimes, we take some in for them, live and let live etc etc. When I order a package I don't always know when it's going to be delivered, not all companies give tracking information so I can't make sure I'm in at the time. Some companies offer Saturday delivery but not many in my experience. I don't have any outbuildings or garages for items to be left in, and if I could afford a house with a garage, I'd probably be in more too The neighbours round here we are on friendly terms with work full time and even if they didn't, I wouldn't ask someone to wait in all day, often for 10 hours, until my parcel arrives.
I can get parcels delivered to where I work which is much more convenient for a) the delivery driver who then doesn't need to go knock round 5 more houses to find someone to take it, b) the company who sent the parcel as they have confirmation the package has gone to the right address rather than somewhere else, c) myself and d) my neighbours. But this isn't an option for everyone. If you don't want to do it, don't answer the door if you're not expecting anything/anyone, or just refuse.0 -
You've never dealt with Yodel, have you?
I had a package with them due for delivery on the 8th January. Between the 3rd and 5th it was sitting in one of their hubs then on the 6th they just decided they'd try to deliver it. They only informed me of this attempt to deliver it at 11:03am on the 6th January, despite the fact that they operate a 7am to 9pm delivery service.
Yeah, I missed that. It didn't end up with a neighbour though.
I tried to reschedule it back to the 8th January but they said as my parcel was "on the way" (???) they couldn't change the delivery date. So they tried again on the 7th.
I did eventually get it on the 8th, which was the day it was supposed to show up.
Now, obviously, in my case it never ended up with a neighbour (although a parcel today, that I had no idea was coming, from Hermes did) but you shouldn't assume that people are always aware of what time a delivery is coming, or even what date, particularly when the largest parcel courier in the UK, Yodel, apparently have a "we'll try whenever the hell we feel like it" attitude.
Sorry to hear that Tropez. Whenever I have had a package delivered (maybe 4 in the past half year,) they have come when they said they would be here. Don't think it was Yodel though. Also, I ask for them to put it in the garage if I am not in.(•_•)
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