Received items through post that are not for recipient?
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What would you do here.
I have heard that someone has received a large number of items worth a considerable amount of money. The recipient has contacted the courier to say sorry wrong recipient but not heard anything. I don't believe they have contacted the sender, a foreign company.
I hear that a solicitor has said after 6 months the items will be written off and ok to keep them. I'm not so sure...
What's the legal route?
I have heard that someone has received a large number of items worth a considerable amount of money. The recipient has contacted the courier to say sorry wrong recipient but not heard anything. I don't believe they have contacted the sender, a foreign company.
I hear that a solicitor has said after 6 months the items will be written off and ok to keep them. I'm not so sure...
What's the legal route?
What's the legal route to what?
You want to steal some stuff that has landed at your place by accident and you want us to OK it for you, eh? Why so coy? All this "someone" and "I have heard" convinces no one.
There are some legal provisions about goods deliberately sent as unsolicited goods, but that doesn't apply when goods are delivered to the wrong place by mistake. What makes you think that you can just cash in on a mistake?
You want to steal some stuff that has landed at your place by accident and you want us to OK it for you, eh? Why so coy? All this "someone" and "I have heard" convinces no one.
There are some legal provisions about goods deliberately sent as unsolicited goods, but that doesn't apply when goods are delivered to the wrong place by mistake. What makes you think that you can just cash in on a mistake?
Edited by anonymous-user on Saturday 9th August 21:45
gaz1234 said:
What would you do here.
I have heard that someone has received a large number of items worth a considerable amount of money. The recipient has contacted the courier to say sorry wrong recipient but not heard anything. I don't believe they have contacted the sender, a foreign company.
I hear that a solicitor has said after 6 months the items will be written off and ok to keep them. I'm not so sure...
What's the legal route?
Be honest, do the right thing.I have heard that someone has received a large number of items worth a considerable amount of money. The recipient has contacted the courier to say sorry wrong recipient but not heard anything. I don't believe they have contacted the sender, a foreign company.
I hear that a solicitor has said after 6 months the items will be written off and ok to keep them. I'm not so sure...
What's the legal route?
Breadvan72 said:
What's the legal route to what?
You want to steal some stuff that has landed at your place by accident and you want us to OK it for yo, eh? Why so coy? All this "someone" and "I have heard" convinces no one.
Giving he's contacted the courier I think it's a bit heavy to accuse him of thieving. Someone sent some stuff to him/cocked up, he didn't go out to take it. You want to steal some stuff that has landed at your place by accident and you want us to OK it for yo, eh? Why so coy? All this "someone" and "I have heard" convinces no one.
The OP is angling to take advantage of someone's error and keep stuff that he has no right to. He can't even bring himself to admit that it's him planning this scabby deed and is sheepishly pretending that all of this is happening to "someone". All very sweet and innocent, yeah right.
Breadvan72 said:
The OP is angling to take advantage of someone's error and keep stuff that he has no right to. He can't even bring himself to admit that it's him planning this scabby deed and is sheepishly pretending that all of this is happening to "someone". All very sweet and innocent, yeah right.
I'm not a good mind reader. He is saying a "friend" called the courier company - now I'd personally also call/email whoever sent it if I could possibly find their details. However if after doing that no one got in contact or showed interest in sorting it, I wouldn't bother either. What do you actually expect people to do? Vaud said:
No. Just so happened to be different.
Breadvan72 said:
Contacting the sender would be the obvious step for the honest person,
Why would it and why should he? Especially given the sender is in another country. A right faff unless he can find their e-mail addy. It's the courier's mistake and they have been informed about it. They need to collect it off him and deliver it to the correct party. His only obligation AFAIK is to keep the items safe until they turn up.However I agree with you about any possibility of him hoping to profit by their inaction.
soad said:
Why accept it in the first place? Someone had to sign at delivery time.
I assume courier will return and collect at some point? Might take a while for sender to realise what happened.
If someone comes to my door I sign for it. As long as they say my or my OH's name. If they'd said "Mr Smith" I'd say nope, not at this house..I assume courier will return and collect at some point? Might take a while for sender to realise what happened.
However, OP, e-mail the delivery company and advise them they appear to have wrongly delivered. A friend of mine did this (actually he got two items the same) and the courier company said they've claimed on the insurance and he was to keep the item, so he kept one as a spare. I found that kind of tragic really.
Jasandjules said:
soad said:
Why accept it in the first place? Someone had to sign at delivery time.
I assume courier will return and collect at some point? Might take a while for sender to realise what happened.
If someone comes to my door I sign for it. As long as they say my or my OH's name. If they'd said "Mr Smith" I'd say nope, not at this house..I assume courier will return and collect at some point? Might take a while for sender to realise what happened.
However, OP, e-mail the delivery company and advise them they appear to have wrongly delivered. A friend of mine did this (actually he got two items the same) and the courier company said they've claimed on the insurance and he was to keep the item, so he kept one as a spare. I found that kind of tragic really.
gaz1234 said:
Vaud said:
Ah, ok, fair enough. My PH "related posts on same day in different forums" alarm bell went off so I thought I would ask 
No. Think I got screwed on that one...I'm an accountant and have two types of client - those who return overpayments by customers (usually invoices paid twice), and those who don't. You would be surprised at the otherwise law abiding people who hang on to thousands of pounds that they know isn't theirs, hoping the other side won't notice for six years. Even though what they are doing is theft.
In the case of parcels wrongly delivered, make and document an attempt to get the courier to collect, so do it in writing. I don't think you can be expected to incur costs rectifying someone else's mistake, so should not have to deliver the parcel back to the couriers.
In the case of parcels wrongly delivered, make and document an attempt to get the courier to collect, so do it in writing. I don't think you can be expected to incur costs rectifying someone else's mistake, so should not have to deliver the parcel back to the couriers.
lookingforajob said:
Breadvan72 said:
What's the legal route to what?
You want to steal some stuff that has landed at your place by accident and you want us to OK it for yo, eh? Why so coy? All this "someone" and "I have heard" convinces no one.
Giving he's contacted the courier I think it's a bit heavy to accuse him of thieving. Someone sent some stuff to him/cocked up, he didn't go out to take it. You want to steal some stuff that has landed at your place by accident and you want us to OK it for yo, eh? Why so coy? All this "someone" and "I have heard" convinces no one.
Sheepshanks said:
One of our guys got sent two mobiles phones - one to home and one to the office. Brilliant he thought and promptly sent one of them off to Mazuma Mobile. He genuinely seemed baffled at the suggestion he'd done anything wrong - and on two levels, as it was on the company account.
If you are his manager then you should really sort that out. It's not going to be to great if the company ask for it back and you have to admit your staff have already sold it. I stand by what I said though - if you have contacted the company then you can't really be expected to do any more.
I'd also be interested to know how much duty of care you have to give to things sent to you by accident. If they got broken/lost would/could you be held responsible?
I personally would call/email the company and try and get them to pick the items up - however I'd also be quite worried about it getting damaged etc... if it was highly valuable and in any way fragile.
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