Receiving Parcels from Post Office for Neighbours

[pdq1]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-19293772

A trial for this was so successful its to be introduced nationwide very shortly.
Is this a good idea or can it be abused especially if the neighbour runs a business from home and has daily deliveries?

[gingejbee]

Well, you can refuse to participate....so no problem.

[pdq1]

Yes the Post Office are giving away free stickers to alert the postmen. I suppose it works both ways as you're informing the postie not to deliver your post elsewhere.

I'd hate to live in a block of flats though

[gingejbee]

I don't mind taking post in occasionally- but I know that I'll end up with more neighbour's post than my own!

[pink-kittens]

I for see many 1000's of claims for items missing or posted through a neighbours door with no card left (happening already anyway)
Even more when the receiver is covered under DSR rules

[chaptazbru]

I'm going to opt out.

[Old_Geezer]

I can't understand why this was not the norm anyway. I seem to recall it happened when I was a kid. Just being a good neighbour isn't it ?

[pink-kittens]

has happened where I live for years
Was always the case when I lived at home as well

[emmie]

i wouldn't do it, if the goods arrive, you sign for it, then the person finds the goods are damaged in some way, who will they blame, or if the thing gets lost, no ta.

[emmie]

a neighbour signed for a parcel of ours, we hadn't asked the post office for this, so then spent two days trying to trace what happened to it. The neighbour had simply forgotten about it.

[Postdog]

When I was a postie, I made a point of always asking if I had to knock for anything what they would like to do if I had something for them and they weren't in. Sometimes it wasn't next door because they had issues but they gave me someone or told me where to hide it. I haven't been a postie for three years but I was doing that for twenty with no problems.

[pdq1]

Its a well known fact that new credit cards get lost within the royal mail system and the customer receives the remnants. That must put the person who signs for it under deep suspicion.