On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:27:39 +0000, mogga
wrote:

On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:42:46 -0000, "Davey" wrote:

Was reading with interest the thread about letter boxes. Moving on from
that, I buy quite a lot off stuff from eBay or online stores, and due to
everyone being at work in the day, I have to get it sent to my folks house.
They're retired, but I'd like to stop this as the postman often get's them
out of bed in the mornings.

I have always wondered if there is a service which you can pay for to
receive your parcels and you just go and pick them up when you are
available. I've looked into getting a P.O. box, but the royal mail state
they won't take in packages from other couriers, so it's no use.

Any ideas?

One of my neighbours has a large wooden box with some locking device
on it for his parcels. He works nights though so it's to stop him
being woken up.

Add into your address line "leave with neighbour at number 81"?

Ask neighbours to keep an eye out. Ours are pretty good at catching
the vans before they disappear and we do the same for other neighbours
too. The depots to pick parcels up at are miles away so it's in
everyone's interest not to have to trek out.

Some couriers will refuse to leave anything with neighbours, even if
you have instructed them to do so. Citilink is the worst. You have
to go to collect the parcel from their depot which is miles away.

There is a parcel safe you can buy...
http://www.parcelsafeuk.com/
?
but depends how big your parcels are...
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