Yesterday should been a quiet day and it was until I heard my front door opening and footsteps in the hall.
Getting up quickly I rushed out...the door was just closing and a large parcel had been left in my porch. I went to look. It was not for me...It was for my neighbour. It was also Sunday...she must have been home! I caught the delivery man as he was getting into his van.
"Please don’t leave parcels that are not for me in my porch."
He looked surprised and pointed to a note which read, "Please leave in the porch." I looked at it. It was the name of my neighbour . She does not have a porch. It’s not the first time this has happened...and I normally don’t mind taking in a parcel..But then I have to return it and as my sitting room is up two flights of stairs it has become a nuisance in my old age.
The fact that it was being delivered on Sunday afternoon was the main surprise. But it was a bulky parcel and I didn’t want to have to carry it round when she arrived home possibly after dark. I am an old woman...and becoming a crusty old woman at that...
After several minutes the van driver drove off. I assumed the parcel had been delivered.......somewhere...
it is not like me to refuse to help a neighbour , in fact I’ve done it lots of times..but it’s being taken for granted that rankles . And I don’t need strangers coming into my house without even ringing the doorbell. So that’s the proof....I really am an old woman...and a crusty one at that! Arhhhhh!
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We have similar issues. We share a porch with our next door people, who both work and often have deliveries. We find them dumped in our porch, with card through the locked door of their half of the porch.
It appears that their delivery instructions say "leave in the secure porch" meaning theirs, but as it is locked, we get their fallout.
I have told them that I will no longer take responsibility for their deliveries and if I find them in our porch, I will put them out on the ground outside their porch door. Whatever time of day or night that it is.
Suddenly they have amended their delivery instructions for them to be left with a house on the other side of us, but as they work as well, don't have a porch, I suspect they might end up with us again. And they will experience my ire. So far, that hasn't happened, but I wait with interest to see what happens.
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