Yes, i would always accept my neighbours parcels. I think it has only happened once in 6yrs though. Hopefully they would do it for me too.

I have to say though that the couriers are good around our way. They tend to find a good hiding place, and then put a note through the door telling us where it is.

Exactly. I've known my neighbour to be at home for several hours before I've had to decide to go over with the parcel, and they say the didn't receive a card. I don't like going over there, and I'm sure they wouldn't like to have to come over here with parcels for us all the time. In fact, I don't even know if they would bother. They may have turned down a dozen parcels for me and I wouldn't know it, so why should I feel guilty about this once?

There could be reasons for it. You might be going away before the neighbour comes home from work, you might have a dog that chews things, it might be too big. We do do it, having said that, and it's never occurred to me to refuse, but I would, if I had such a reason.

Haha! so does mine on certain days.

I never thought about the dog, he can be a handful sometimes and rake through things he has an interest in. "Hello Mr Neighbour, here's your parcel. Sorry about the drool and completely shredded pair of new shoes inside, my dog got excited".

That's just another reason for me to not want to take parcels in anymore.

Judging by all the people on here who seem to refuse to open the door unless they know the person, you might struggle to deliver a parcel to a neighbour you didn't know too well.

Me, I'm happy to accept parcels for neighbours and they do it for me too.

Yes i do it all the time as do my neighbours.

You sound paranoid OP.

Paranoid, careful, sensible.... it depends on your viewpoint.

I am probably all three. I don't for one minute think my neighbour would ever accuse me personally of not giving him his parcel, but if he decided to tell the company he bought it from that he never received it thinking he'd get another one free, and they look up who signed for it, it would lead to me and they might take it further. I think in future the only option to please my neighbours and to safeguard myself is to accept the parcel, keep it in a very safe, tight cupboard, and ask my neighbour to sign for it themselves when I hand it to them.

I'd accept, and always do, for anyone who lives on our cul-de-sac - Just a 'neighbourly' thing to do!!

Besides, if there was damage, the thing is still taped, and boxed, so it would be the delivery men, or the company, that they'd moan at!!

This is covered by 'never answering front door'

I don't mean if it was damaged before delivery, I mean if it got damaged in my house. Something could fall on it, I could spill food/water over it, it could get stood on, the dog could try to eat it. All problems that would be my fault, probably, but accidents do happen. The delivery company isn't responsible then, because as far as they are concerned it's been delivered and out of their hands.

Yes, but when I hear the door it could be a parcel for me, or something else.. The only way around that is to hope they leave a card, then chase them down the driveway.

The reasons you cite for no longer accepting parcels haven't actually happened so as far as I can see you are just using those reasons as some justification for being mean-spirited.

Not at all. Avoiding the issue means it cannot happen in the first place. Like I said, I have taken in parcels for my neighbours every single time until today. I'm not mean spirited. In the last 12 months alone, for this one neighbour, I have accepted nearly 50 parcels. That's almost one a week! I'm not a PO Box.

It's no problem for you just to popalong to them later, is it ?

Same here

Good grief. Thank god you aren't one of my neighbours.

I'm a carer, so leaving the house and leaving the person I care for is not something I do often, unless I have cover for them or they are coming with me. I have a responsibility to them first. It wouldn't be worthwhile getting them all ready and in the wheelchair to just go over the road, and so my only other alternative is to leave them alone. They aren't meant to be left alone. My neighbour has never yet come to collect a parcel from me, even though I know for a fact that he has received cards from the drivers on several occasions.

We tend to take deliveries for about 3 neighbours. It's no real problem

Well, you have your reasons and, if you didn't care, you wouldn't be feeling a bit bad about it.

Yeah, if you get on with them it's fine really.

I haven't broken a law, I haven't done anything immoral. Why all the hate? It's my choice to accept a parcel or not. I am starting to feel like I've just brought Hitler back from the dead and given him the keys to a nuclear launchpad.

Fine, I'm a bad neighbour.

You should have it out with your neighbour, preferably accompanied with about six or seven of their parcels.

I now feel like I'm some kind of freak who should be locked away. Apparently most people here think I'm evil for having turned away one parcel, regardless of having accepted many more in the past.