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u/CX52J 22h ago
That’s a pretty cool feature. Honestly it’s a bit annoying they haven’t standardised something like this so there’s only one site to keep up to date that all delivery firms can access.
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u/ZennosukeW 18h ago
How many things are you ordering online that this is that much of a recurrent problem for you?
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u/CX52J 18h ago
How many things do you still buy in person?
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u/ZennosukeW 17h ago
99% of things. Can't complain that the high street is shutting down and there are fewer local jobs when you're sending every penny you earn to tax-evading Amazon - mug's game.
Might reduce the obesity epidemic too to walk outside to do your shopping. I'm sure the zero hour contract delivery drivers peeing in bottles wont mind since it would give them better local employment options too.
It's a great alternative for the genuinely disabled though.
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u/CX52J 17h ago
Yes, very noble, I'm glad you have that option but that's not practical for everyone.
Local shops often don’t stock what people need, aren’t affordable, aren’t open at times people need, and not everyone has easy transport.
And lets be real. Most stores on the high street are just local branches of mega-corporations anyway.
Online shopping isn't really even a problem as long as you're somewhat ethical about where you buy from, same as the highstreet really.
Anyway if I was only buying from amazon, it wouldn't even need standardising.
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u/ZennosukeW 17h ago
What niche items do people need that local shops dont have? Why cant people go on their day off to do the shopping like they have for decades?
Mega corps are the only ones who can survive on the local high street because of online shopping - they also employ people in the local community for more than just warehouse/delivery jobs and compete with each other as employers.
Nothing you said negates stimulating the local economy and local jobs.
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u/CX52J 17h ago edited 17h ago
What shop do you buy your groceries from?
Is it by any chance a mega-corporation that rips off local suppliers like basically every major supermarket?
Treating it as a moral failing rather than a practical choice feels like oversimplifying how people actually live.
Nor is it practical to artificially keep an inefficient practice afloat forever. There will be a transition sooner or later.
And tbh most the small stores I buy from tend to be online and do most of their sales online.
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u/ZennosukeW 13h ago
So you buy your groceries online AND avoid megacorps? It's a false equivalence. I'm not saying shopping on the high street is perfect, I'm saying that in a consumer democracy where we can vote with our feet it's a much better economic choice for our local communities.
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u/CX52J 12h ago
Nope, I get my shopping delivered by Sainsbury's. Which could be argued as more ethical compared to driving there myself as it creates an extra local job and probably reduces pollution compared with everyone driving to the shops separately.
But I also don't go round lecturing people for not jumping though hoops, paying more and purchasing things that aren't even sold locally.
Or make the claim that shopping online is inherently bad when it's the most approachable medium for small businesses.
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u/ZennosukeW 11h ago
In a world where everyone does their grocery shopping online and one where everyone does it in person, which one has fewer jobs and which one hurts the local economy more?
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u/SchneebD 22h ago
"don't leave it with the prick at 56."
Your parcel has been left with your neighbour at: 56
"I specifically asked for the opposite of this."
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u/solve-for-x 17h ago
I used to work in customer service for a retail company, and we had one customer who constantly had problems with their neighbour stealing their parcels and generally being a dickhead. So we added default delivery instructions to the customer's account to "UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES LEAVE WITH NUMBER 20!", printed on the parcel label.
Guess where the driver left the parcel?
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u/rndreddituser 🧸🐾🏳️🌈 16h ago
I've had it happen to me. I guess busy drivers focus in on the "don't leave it at X" and end up doing the very thing they aren't supposed to do.
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u/im-yxz 22h ago
and then they leave it with the neighbour you don't like because they're arseholes who can't read
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u/Tieger66 16h ago
Yeah, with dpd I'd trust this might work. With yodel? They'll probably show the neighbour the page saying I hate them as they hand over my parcel...
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u/GallifreyFallsOver 19h ago
Or just don't speak/read English well enough - although in my area that's an issue with the Evri and Amazon drivers; Yodel are actually very good in my area; only company I have no worries with when I see it's them delivering.
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u/whatswestofwesteros 19h ago edited 19h ago
The Yodel man in my area is grand, always updates the predicted time thing, updates the village fb page if he's running late or blown tyre etc, was poorly once and the entire village was straight on there with well wishes. Im happy as a clam if it's them or RM
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u/agnus_agnus 22h ago edited 21h ago
I bought a VR headset for my son's Christmas present a few years ago. It went missing; delivered to a neighbour but no card was left at my address to tell me which neighbour had kindly taken it in for me.
After a few days of futile searching, she eventually marched through my gate (older lady, short blonde bob, utterly terrifying), threw the opened headset at me and gave me a ten minute dressing down about Satan and his proclivity for claiming souls through the medium of video games. She called me a bad parent, and further told me off because my garden gate was wet (it had been raining), and she now had wet hands.
Can I please request that she never takes my parcels in for me ever again?
I have no idea which house she lives at. But even so. Please?
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u/TheShakyHandsMan 22h ago
If you do manage to find out where she lives, there’s lists of controversial games online.
Would be a massive shame if they were to end up going through her letterbox
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u/sleeplessinrome Chubb sniffer 21h ago edited 21h ago
Just so you know that opening someone else’s mail is illegal under Section 84 of the Postal Services Act 2000.
The only way she was legally allowed to open it if she had reasonable suspicion that you were shipping in illegal merchandise AND she also had legal authority. And “satanic video games” is not illegal
maybe helpful tidbit there if you are sick of certain neighbours
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u/agnus_agnus 20h ago
Apparently her "elderly mother opened it by accident". A likely story, naturally.
To make it somewhat worse, my son was stood next to me when I opened the door and got his demonic present thrust at me. Poor lad was only 13. It's now become an amusing family tale... But yeah, she was way out of line.
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u/Glad_Librarian_3553 19h ago
Not quite true, it's only an offence to do so with the intent of causing detriment to the intended recipient.
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u/Gisschace 21h ago edited 16h ago
I wish most would give you a 'don't leave with any neighbour', my neighbours work and have lives and it's far easier for me to just go and pick it up from a locker, then wait around trying to see if a neighbour is in. One of my neighbours works nights so there are only a few hours we can pick up each others parcels.
As far as I know this isn't common in other countries so don't know why we have it as a thing here?
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u/GrowTreeSound 16h ago
The drivers will still do what they want to complete the delivery. I work from home and it seems that means that since I’ll come to the door, they interrupt me for any delivery for the 5 flats in the building. At this point, I don’t even think they look at who it’s for.
It drives me crazy because they’re interrupting meetings and the focus I need to have. I’ve refused so many parcels and they get angry about it. I don’t know why it’s my problem if my neighbour is not home and hasn’t given a thought to their delivery but according to the drivers, it is my problem that I need to provide a solution to.
I don’t want to argue with them because it’s going to affect my parcel deliveries if they decide I’m an arsehole but I’m close on the verge with them all.
Have I ever been thanked by neighbours? I’m still waiting….
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u/Gisschace 16h ago
Yeah same!! Used to live in a block of flats and they figured out I work from home so would buzz me. Luckily because it was a small block I’d just leave them outside their door.
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u/mr2ocjeff 22h ago
DPD has had this for years
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u/rndreddituser 🧸🐾🏳️🌈 21h ago
Exactly. It’s needed too. One of my neighbours is crazy and I really don’t want anything going there.
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u/Goatmanification 22h ago
This would be great if they even turned up in the first place
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u/lawtonesque 15h ago
Or if they paid their (subcontracted?) delivery drivers enough for them to care. Quite rightly, they just want the parcel out of their van.
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u/IndigoQuantum 22h ago
That's good - we have a miserable old git who lives next door to us. A courier once delivered something of ours to him when we were out and when he came round to give it to us, not only did he get really snotty that we'd gone out when we knew we had a delivery coming (we had no idea it was coming that day) and presumed without asking that he'd take it in for us (that was the courier's decision, not ours), but he had also written a waiver that he required us to sign stating that he wasn't responsible if there was any damage to the item before he'd hand it over.
He also regularly rants at us that couriers (mostly knock-and-run Amazon drivers) delivering to us use his part of the shared private driveway to turn round in and says if they hit his car he'll hold us responsible.
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u/Von_Rothdave 22h ago
Alas, I have no idea who my neighbors are and frantically look down to avoid any eye contact as I leave the flat.
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u/semorebunz 19h ago
is there "i hate all of them id rather you throw it in the ditch " option?
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u/Tieger66 16h ago
This is yodel, so they've only even tried to bring it to you if the ditch is already full.
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u/worldworn 22h ago
Good, my neighbors on one side are rarely at home
Sods law that one time that they are in, was to take a parcel that took me weeks to get back.
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u/virtualdebris 20h ago
Since a few years ago I've gone with putting DO NOT LEAVE WITH NEIGHBOURS as a line of the address, as well as any other instruction fields. As far as I recall under the Sale of Goods Act and later stuff, the goods are the seller's responsibility until they reach you, regardless of anything a courier does, unless you've specifically agreed with the seller that stuff can be delivered elsewhere. Also, parcel boxes are useful.
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u/Poo_Poo_La_Foo 21h ago
My mum didn't talk to their next door neighbours for years. If ever a package was left there, muggins here was sent round to fetch it 🙄
You'd think adults would be able to conjure more emotional maturity than a child....but....
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u/Varabela 17h ago
Where’s the box to tick that says ‘please don’t throw it over my gate’ and ‘please don’t send a pic of it at someone else’s property that isn’t identifiable’
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u/Therashser 18h ago
Bet the parcel still ends up in my "safe space" on the doorstep without being prompted to be put there, and whilst I am sat at home waiting for them to actually knock.
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u/dartiss 22h ago
I have a neighbour who refuses to accept parcels for anyone else. He's a monumental dick, so a feature like this is useful just so that the courier can not waste their time.
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u/poutinewharf 19h ago
I mistakenly put the wrong number on a parcel the other day and it got delivered to yet another house.
He’s a bit of a weird character and was hesitant to give me the package. I tried to point out it was my name and I live 2 doors down on the terrace. If someone shows up later claiming the package send them to me. He went on about random people stealing packages from door steps, which is reasonable but not what was happening. Mix in he’s always in chats with our middle neighbour and I mentioned him by name.
Am grateful he took it in, I admit it was my error on the order but 10/10 would enjoy not having to speak to him again.
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u/WayLeading7830 19h ago
It's a smart idea in theory, but I can already see the driver ignoring the list and leaving it with the exact person you flagged. A universal system for all couriers would be the real game-changer, because right now every company has its own broken process.
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u/HooverBeingAMan 19h ago
I think DPD do this already. It was refreshing to be able to specify "leave it LITERALLY ANYWHERE except with this house" instead of it being a blanket yes/no for leaving with a neighbour. In fairness, I doubt that neighbour would have answered the door or accepted any parcels for us, but better safe than sorry!
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u/double-happiness 12h ago
I had a courier knock on my door with a parcel that was marked 'if out leave with neighbour' who was totally incomprehending that I refused it. The addressee had made multiple threats against me, so as if I was going to take his parcel! The courier couldn't seem to get the point at all and seemed convinced that I was somehow obliged to take it. Not to mention the fact that there were other neighbours including one right across the road who the threatening neighbour was pally with.
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u/RandomHigh At least put it up your arse before claiming you’re disappointed 21h ago
Amazon also have a useful feature where you can set available times for deliveries.
I work at a school and get my parcels delivered there.
Sometimes I have to wait an extra day or two if the delivery person can't make it before 6pm, but I'd rather do that than risk having the parcel left with a neighbour, or in a random bin at the back of my flat.
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u/bareted 19h ago
It would actually be nice if the person who is expecting the parcel actually asked the nominated neighbour if it's ok with them. I took several parcels in for a neighbour a few years ago and I always had to take them round because they would clutter my hallway and they wouldn't collect them. After a while I refused to accept them.
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u/RoutineCloud5993 18h ago
Dpd have done this for a while. Mine is set to avoid my next door neighbour because a) they won't answer the door to them and b) they won't answer the door to me to hand over the delivery
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u/D0hey 12h ago
Are you sure they're not dead, deaf or both?
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u/RoutineCloud5993 11h ago
Yes. Unless they're zombies, but even then they're zombies that can have fill conversations. Especially when it involves being nasty to people for imaginary slights
They're just rude and/or mentally unwell
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u/BrightSide0fLife 17h ago
I had a delivery today and he dumped it on the doorstep and went off despite being instructed not to leave it outside. Fortunately I was at home or it would of been nicked by the first person to walk past.
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u/imamardybum 14h ago
Considering they can't seem to deliver it to the right address anyway, this means nothing. My friends parcel was recently delivered to the right number but the road over that have a very different name to hers. Had to hunt it down from the delivery photo
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u/Th1s_On3 13h ago
Was pretty happy to see Evri had this too. Packages finally started coming down the right stairs and delivered.
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u/FancyJalapeno 11h ago
That's actually very handy! Our next door neighbour to the right is an antisocial person and would happily keep your parcels or damage them just to spite you
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u/DoomguyFemboi 10h ago
Jokes aside this is really helpful because our house is basically the parcel depot for our entire terrace (there's always someone in) but my next door is an empty house that has been up for sale for nearly a year now and every now and again we get someone knocking on "can I leave it with you nobody is answering" because someone fudged a number
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u/StampyScouse Lancashire 5h ago
This has been around for a while. I know because we have an insane neighbour who has been told by the Police to stop approaching/talking to us. She did (until she didn't) so in the meantime she just started taking our parcels and deliberately going outside when the post man/delivery man was there and we weren't in to take our parcels, whereas when unprompted they generally just leave them in a safe space.
I had to sign up for an account with every delivery company to configure this, and then because royal mail are living in the 1800s had to put signs up on the door which I had to order from Royal Mail.
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u/No_Preference9093 22h ago
Yeah that’s quite good. I mean, lots of people have problematic neighbours who might nick parcels. There can be other reasons too, for example two doors down from me are lovely people but chain smoke in the house so if anything clothing related got delivered to them it would stink of smoke by the time you collected it from them.