Do you collect parcels for your neighbours . . . .?

[c1]

Hey all,

I don't mind collecting parcels for my neighbours, if they are not home, but I find it weird that they have deliveries sent to their homes when they know they will not be in. Sooooo, I'm wondering whether they know someone in my house will always be in so they rely on us or whther they were planning to get up at the crack of dawn and queue up outside our local sorting office I do not believe it is the latter somehow.

*slight whinge over*

[askyourgran]

I usually take mail in for neighbours I don't mind doing that. However, recently someone came to my door to ask if I'd taken a parcel in, and I hadn't (minor panic) it then struck me that I could be called a fibber or worst for my good neighbourly act. The neighbour never came back to me so I never did find out who had taken it in. Note: no=one has ever been in to take my mail in for me. Do I need my head testing?

[ladybirder]

As I am the only one at home in our block of flats and the delivery men now know that, I take them in for everybody but I don't mind except:
[i] Evening falls and they still havent come to pick it up, even though the delivery man/woman has put in a piggin note saying i got the bleedin thing [i]
That drives me mad that as well yogi, because I'm alert waiting for them to knock the door, instead of relaxing. There's only one that did it but if they do it again I shall have a word.
I don't recall getting this letter from the Royal Mail. Does anybody know if they've done Brighton yet?

[DaisyNonna]

"Nobody asked me, sir," she said.

[ELVIS68]

My postman leaves my parcels behind the side gate and any signed for letters he signs them for me and puts them through the door, never had any problems and he gets his tenner every Xmas

As for neighbours parcels I'll sign for them if they're not in and take them in

[Jeza]

I often take in parcels from couriers for my neighbours. Most collect them as soon as they arrive home. One waits for me to take it round, which I have stopped doing.

[ELVIS68]

That reminds me Jeza, I must take their DVD round to them

When I've finished watching it!

[Ann]

We must be extremely lucky in our street as all the neighbours next to us, further up the street and opposite are really nice people and nobody minds taking parcels in for each other. We had a Jubilee BBQ in June when a lot of them attended. Most of us have lived here for many years (we have been here 40 years after Christmas)

[Jeza]

Elvis may I borrow it before you take it round.
Seriously it was a Dyson cleaner. It was on my stairs and in my way for 3 days.

[ELVIS68]

Lol Jeza, you should've done your hallway and stairs with it then put it back in the box

[daffy654]

To those complaining that people haven't been to collect their parcels... have you considered that the person may not have seen any card the postie/ delivery man left for them?
We had a delivery man leave a card here saying that our parcel was at number 8 (we live at number 8) and it took me over a week to track down where the parcel actually was. We have also held onto to parcels (last Christmas) for 2 different neighbours who were never left cards and despite us knocking on their doors several times we couldn't catch them at home.

[ladybirder]

Daffy, oh yes the person knew I had the parcel. I asked him and he said Yes I've been busy by way of an explanation. I suppose his wife and daughter were busy as well.