A man is at his wits' end after his neighbour keeps treating his house like a private post office - but he's come up with a perfect way to get revenge and he's laughing now08:16, 29 May 2026Accepting a parcel on behalf of a neighbour who isn't home is a perfectly courteous gesture that most people are happy to do. When you're out, and a delivery arrives, couriers will often attempt to drop it with a neighbour so you can collect it later. While neighbours are under no obligation to accept your parcels, many are more than willing to help out every now and then as a goodwill gesture.‌However, that generosity can wear thin pretty quickly, particularly if you start taking liberties by leaving parcels uncollected for days on end, or constantly having deliveries that inevitably end up on someone else's doorstep. This is precisely the situation one man on social media found himself in with his neighbour, who has taken full advantage of his past kindness and now treats his home as a personal post office - with parcels constantly being redirected there.‌The neighbour has even gone as far as putting a sign in his window instructing delivery drivers to knock on the man's door instead of his own, regardless of whether he's actually home to receive them.‌The man took to Reddit to explain he never gave his neighbour permission to have parcels delivered to his address, and has since started getting his own back by turning couriers away when they knock - meaning every parcel gets returned to the delivery depot and goes undelivered.He explained the property next door is a house in multiple occupation (HMO), with tenants changing on a regular basis, meaning he barely knows his neighbours and hasn't a clue who put the note up.WARNING: The below Reddit post contains strong language.‌He also pointed out that with so many people living under one roof, the volume of deliveries is considerable — and when they all end up on his doorstep, his living room "looks like a DPD warehouse" or a post office.The man wrote: "My neighbour has just put a 'deliver parcels to [my house number]' sign on their door. I have never spoken to this neighbour. It's not too petty to refuse any parcels, right? I've had three p***** off delivery drivers so far.‌"I should add that this is an HMO, and the multiple tenants rarely stay more than a few months. Hence, why I don't get to know them and why it will be difficult to track down which one put the note up."It also means that deliveries can reach double digits on a daily basis, interrupting my work and making my house look like a DPD warehouse. I once had someone try to deliver a washing machine for them."Finally, I have historically taken parcels in, but the note (without permission) has changed that."‌Fellow users were quick to advise the man to stop accepting parcels on his neighbours' behalf, with many chipping in with practical suggestions on how to put a stop to the unwanted deliveries altogether.One person wrote: "A handwritten note, attached to your door, saying 'not currently accepting parcels for other properties' should do the trick with minimum fuss. If people like your neighbour don't have the common courtesy to ask you first before instructing that their deliveries are sent to your address, then you should absolutely refuse any parcels for the neighbour."Another chimed in: "Personally I'd just have a note saying I'm not taking parcels, especially when they couldn't even be bothered to ask you and there are loads of them, and I'd just never answer the door."Article continues belowA third shared a strikingly familiar tale: "I have a similar situation with new neighbours who moved in late last year. Before I'd even met them, their parcels started turning up at ours. They took ages to come round and get their stuff (sometimes a couple of weeks), and kept insisting they don't know why couriers keep dropping them off with us."The last time I answered the door to a courier with another one of their deliveries I asked the guy why he didn't leave it on their doorstep and it turns out they've been specifying on the delivery instructions to leave stuff at ours. Cheeky s***."