We get packages intended for our neighbors now and then... kind of scary when that happens, since we order a fair amount of stuff into our home. We hand deliver lost packages to our neighbors, and hope they will do the same!
The US Postal Service is slipping, and UPS isn't much better. It's a sad state of affairs... I don't remember this happening so often in the "good ol' days"!
Do you ever get your neighbor's mail or packages?
blogger / wonderful cherry / 21628 posts
I kept getting Elle Magazines for someone names Brittany. Her last name was the same as my maiden name.
pineapple / 12802 posts
Occasionally we get a piece of mail or something, but never packages. Thankfully we have really great relationships with our neighbours on both sides, so I never have to worry!
grapefruit / 4817 posts
Every once and a while. We live on a dead end, and crazy enough, the house at the beginning of the street has the same house numbers as us, but the street number changes half way down. So we have the same house numbers as someone like 6 houses from us. It gets confusing for eveyone.
GOLD / wonderful olive / 19030 posts
Just last week we started getting our next door neighbor's mail, including what I'm guessing is bank statements...not good! We have returned it to them and left a note in the mailbox for the postman, but it hasn't changed!
pineapple / 12234 posts
We still get the previous owners mail. We'll get our neighbors packages every now and then, I always deliver them.
persimmon / 1341 posts
Never packages but sometimes mail. Delivery people are human so I expect mistakes every now and then and don't think of it as a huge deal.
GOLD / wonderful apricot / 22276 posts
We get old tenants mail, so I end up just setting it on the ledge in hopes that the mail person will see it and send it to the correct place. I have no idea what else to do, since the address is correct, but they don't live here anymore, we do.
wonderful olive / 19353 posts
Nope. We do ocassionally get mail addressed to the house owner 2 generations back!!
grapefruit / 4669 posts
We use a PO box for most things and rarely get stuff for other people.
honeydew / 7916 posts
Yes, we get misdelivered mail at least once a week and it's often only off by one or two houses. I try to drop it off in my neighbor's mailbox, but judging from how often important pieces of mail aren't showing up at our home I'm starting to worry. At some point I actually made a complaint with the USPS but of course never heard anything back!
GOLD / wonderful grape / 20289 posts
Nope. We used to get the people who used to live here's mail, but that slowed down a lot.
pomelo / 5524 posts
I've signed for neighbor's packages before when they aren't home, but generally, I only get the stray piece of mail here or there. We have a good relationship with all of our surrounding neighbors, so we just run it over if it happens.
We do sometimes get mail for the previous owners. If it's not junk mail looking, we put "return to sender" on the envelope and put it back in the mailbox.
blogger / pineapple / 12381 posts
@Bao: All you have to do is cross out the address and write "Please forward". It should eventually get to their new address!
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