{"id":224871,"date":"2023-12-01T16:08:08","date_gmt":"2023-12-01T16:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allworldreport.com\/?p=224871"},"modified":"2023-12-01T16:08:08","modified_gmt":"2023-12-01T16:08:08","slug":"is-it-rude-to-refuse-to-accept-a-parcel-for-my-neighbour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allworldreport.com\/lifestyle\/is-it-rude-to-refuse-to-accept-a-parcel-for-my-neighbour\/","title":{"rendered":"Is it rude to refuse to accept a parcel for my neighbour?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1> I refused to accept my neighbour&#8217;s parcel &#8211; some people think I&#8217;m rude but I just couldn&#8217;t be bothered with the hassle<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>User\u00a0Sorry-Cookie-2783 asked for advice on the incident on a UK subreddit\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>READ MORE:\u00a0My partner bought me a \u00a370 bottle of whisky for our anniversary &#8211; but he said he was insulted when I mixed it with Diet Coke<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve ever become fed up with your doorbell constantly pinging because your neighbours have volunteered you to take in their parcels, you&#8217;re not alone &#8211; but the etiquette of how to handle it is a tricky one.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A British Reddit user,\u00a0Sorry-Cookie-2783\u00a0took to the\u00a0r\/AskUK sub-reddit to check if they had &#8216;inadvertently committed a massive faux pas&#8217; by refusing to accept a parcel for a neighbour.<\/p>\n<p>They explained that they &#8216;just couldn&#8217;t be bothered with the hassle&#8217; because they were on the way out of the house and had a busy schedule the next day.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, the DPD driver was not impressed by the refusal, prompting the busy Redditor to wonder if they&#8217;d done something wrong.<\/p>\n<p>The tale left commenters divided, as some branded the action &#8216;rude&#8217;, whereas others insisted they had the &#8216;right to say no&#8217;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/26\/16\/78246331-12792475-image-a-76_1701016059310.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Social media users were divided after one poster confessed that they rejected taking a parcel for their neighbour (stock image)<\/p>\n<p>Outlining the situation, the Reddit user wrote: &#8216;A DPD delivery driver just knocked on my door, asked if I would take the parcel for my neighbour,&#8217; they began.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Usually I would, but I&#8217;m about to head out for the rest of the day and won&#8217;t be back until late.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I&#8217;m really busy tomorrow, too, so in all honesty I just couldn&#8217;t be bothered with the hassle.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The author then recounted how they then &#8216;politely said, &#8220;Sorry mate, I&#8217;m heading out soon&#8221;.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>At this, the delivery man &#8216;noisily huffed and said &#8220;for god&#8217;s sake&#8221; then stomped off&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;You were home, why not take it?&#8217; one commenter asked. &#8216;In what way is it a hassle for you, when at most, you just have to wait for your neighbour to knock on your door to get the parcel in the evening?<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;If you wanted, it would take literal minutes to take it to them if you know they&#8217;re home when you get home later.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;If a neighbour didn&#8217;t take a package for me, I&#8217;d assume I did something to offend them, and I don&#8217;t even talk to my neighbours. I always take theirs in.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Another added: &#8216;If this is something which happens irregularly and you weren&#8217;t about to just take a two week holiday in Barbados, just take the package.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;What&#8217;s the big deal? Just leave it by the front door so it&#8217;s out of sight. Neighbours can pick up later tonight or tomorrow. It&#8217;s more convenient than having to rearrange with DPD. Neighbours would hopefully do the same for you should the situation ever arise.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A third even hit out at the poster for being &#8216;self centred&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Others, however, were on the person&#8217;s side and said they has the right not to accept the parcel if they didn&#8217;t want to.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It&#8217;s not rude, especially if it&#8217;s a nuisance for the neighbour to collect it due to your schedule,&#8217; one wrote. &#8216;DPD driver understandably only cares about hitting the targets, so for him you&#8217;re a nuisance.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Another comment agreed, writing that &#8216;the DPD driver was annoyed because he now has to return the parcel to the office and\/or probably redeliver it another day&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;That&#8217;s all there is to it,&#8217; they penned. &#8216;You&#8217;re overthinking it.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Others even recounted their own experiences with not taking parcels for bad neighbours.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We&#8217;ve got very noisy anti-social neighbours two doors down &amp; I never accept anything for them, I see it as my little contribution to real time karma,&#8217; one shared.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/femail\/article-12792475\/I-refused-accept-neighbours-parcel-people-think-Im-rude-just-bothered-hassle.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I refused to accept my neighbour&#8217;s parcel &#8211; some people think I&#8217;m rude but I just couldn&#8217;t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224870,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Is it rude to refuse to accept a parcel for my neighbour? 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