Delivery firms asking me to take packages in for neighbours

sinizterguy

We'll take our neighbours parcels and they will take ours.

And it happens hell of a lot more frequently than 5-7 times a year.

No idea why it is so irksome.

Collabora

jaylee3 wrote: »

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.

Tracking only says its out for delivery and most will say between 7am to 6pm. although we have had myhermes parcels delivered at 10pm.

only a couple of couriers will give you a 1hr slot when it will be delivered.

I have no issues taking in parcels for neighbours as i work from home and most of my neighbours go out to work.

Infact today i have 3 parcels for neighbours

easy

You know what? Taking in a parcel for someone who has missed the delivery is just a kind and considerate thing to do.
A little bit of consideration just helps to oil the wheels of life a little.

But hey, no-one says you have to do it if you don't want to. But don't be surprised if you don't get any help from a neighbour on the day your car won't start, or they don't water your garden if there is a sudden heatwave when you are on holiday.

I do tend to believe "you reap what you sow" in this life.

Broadwood

duchy wrote: »

Depends which neighbour it is...... I tend to only take them for those I actually know and not half the street but I will refuse in some circumstances. I do think the drivers get to know who is usually around in the day so tend to knock there first so the odd refusual keeps them off balance

That said I'm grateful when others accept MY deliveries so most of the time I do it and regard it as a two way street when though as I work on the phones from home the actual knocking can be annoying.

We've lived here 29 years and operate on a give and take basis with neighbours. You soon get to know who you can trust and rely on. The ones where we have each other's keys for holidays and emergencies etc are the same ones that we take parcels for and they take ours. Sort of an extended Neighbourhood Watch. That doesn't mean we are best buddies and always in each others' pockets though.

With regard to leaving parcels with neighbours, I was a delivery driver for over 25 years and one of the golden rules was that whenever I left a parcel either in a safe dry place or with a neighbour, a card HAD to be put through the addressee's letter box stating where the parcel was to be found or collected from. Nowadays this golden rule appears to have become optional probably due to ever higher targets and ever increasing congestion. Consumers generally want everything for almost nothing. Hence the demise of City Link. I confidently predict they won't be the last.:(

SailorSam

I only pass the time of day with my neighbours, they're not friends but it's no big deal to take something in for them.

dodger1

jaylee3 wrote: »

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.

Yodel don't specify times, unless 2015 counts

aileth

We've had in the main part absolutely no problems taking parcels in for neighbours, except ONE!

We accepted one VERY large parcel from UPS, it must've been some furniture or exercise equipment, or a large appliance. Waited two days for them to come around, nothing, figured perhaps they didn't receive the card for whatever reason, so for the next week 2-3 times a day one of us would go around and knock/ring on their door. We tried morning, afternoon, early evening, they never, ever answered, even when there were lights on inside.

The size of the thing was getting a real pain. It took up almost all our hall and there was no room for it anywhere else (plus it needed at least two people to carry out).

Almost two weeks later the recipient rocks up to our house with the card, shoves it in my husband's face and demands to know why 'we didn't come round to give it to her.' Explained that we are doing her favour by holding it here for her, that it's been a huge inconvenience for us and that we've tried to call around!

She shouts at us, then grabs said item and attempts to pull it across the carpet. Husband offers to help, gets shouted at again. We took an awful lot of joy watching her slowly scraping it down the road.

Collabora

I have a m8 who is a delivery driver for fedex and when he started he had to collect the van at 8am which was fully loaded and the last delivery had to be made by 6pm, he was penalised if their was any parcels still left in his van. He stated it was a nightmare to get everything delivered as their was no planning in the way his was was loaded. so now he goes in at 6.30am and empties his who van and then reloads in in relation to where they are to be delivered, so he no longer double backs on himself

bugslet

There's always one aileth!

Mostly I get stuff delivered to work, every now and then something slips through the net and goes to home, in which case my very lovely retired neighbours sign for it.

I'm rarely in when they are to reciprocate, but I'd be more than happy to do so for them; as easy says, it oils the wheels of life.

Edit: collabora, I've been in haulage my entire life and multi drop to houses is one of the hardest jobs to do, it'd drive me nuts!

Collabora

bugslet wrote: »

Edit: collabora, I've been in haulage my entire life and multi drop to houses is one of the hardest jobs to do, it'd drive me nuts!

worse when you have no control how the vehicle is loaded. When Yodel was DHL home we had a DHL guy who lived a few doors from us and if he had a parcel for us, he would just bring it when he come home at night as then they brought van home and then went in at the crack of dawn to load up