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'Petty' woman slammed after wanting to return her neighbour's parcel

While you can choose your home, you can't choose your neighbours and a feud has left one woman confused about what to do with next door's parcel.

Taking to a popular online forum, the woman explains that her neighbour isn't overly friendly and a parcel of theirs got delivered to her house and she's now wondering what to do with it.

But while others are saying she should just send it back, others hit back and told her to stop being petty.

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Writing on Mumsnet she explained: "So I’ve just had a parcel delivered from JustFab. My neighbour's name but my address and postcode.

"They’ve used the second line of the address to say “deliver to (their door number) it looks like they deliberately had it ordered to my number. Why would anyone do that?

"This neighbour has lived near me for three years. All through lockdowns. They’ve made it very clear they didn’t want to be neighbourly for example I wave if we pass each other etc. They make eye contact but ignore me.

"I pull over so we pass each other on the small road. They refuse to. Even if it means me reversing 20 meters and they would have to reverse a couple of feet.

"AIBU [Am I being unreasonable] to just send it back to JustFab?"

The post quickly gathered comments with some slamming the woman, calling her 'petty', while others simply told her to return the parcel.

One quickly hit back, and said: "Why be petty and go to all that trouble to send it back? Just hand it over and ask them not to deliver to yours again otherwise you'll return to sender. It's not like they are going to want to be your bestie if you say five words to them."

A second replied: "Just give it to them and tell them clearly that you won’t be taking in anymore. Surely it is actually more hassle it return the parcel than to hand it to the person who only lives next door. I struggle to understand the angst over taking in the odd parcel for someone who lives next door!"

"Send it back," while one simply said.

Another suggested: "I would give it to them but ask them not to use your address again."

"Do you mean they had your address on the first line but then "deliver to" their address on the second? Potentially their address wasn't on a drop down list when they ordered?" Someone else replied.

Meanwhile another interjected: "Yes it sounds like an issue on the website. For example having to choose address from drop down and theirs not being there. By adding the instruction on second line it does sound like they wanted it to be delivered to them. But they sound horrid. I would either keep a hold of it until they come knocking and see if they can be polite. Or just send it back 'not known at this address'."

And a fellow Mumsnet replied: "Send it back. It is unacceptable for them to have used your address and as some people have mentioned it could be a scam on their part. Yes, there is a possibility that they selected the wrong house number by mistake when placing the order but if they have always been unfriendly towards you, there is no reason why you should feel obliged to deliver the package to them."

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