Royal Mail delivering a package to another household when not in.

[trystan]

We had a bit of a surprise yesterday.

We'd gone out for our daily lockdown walk, and when we returned we saw the red "Sorry you weren't in" Royal Mail card on the doormat.

On it, were no details, except for a house number scrawled on it large.

I know that Royal Mail is permitted these days to deliver parcels to neighbours when you're not in, but I was very surprised that they would do so in the middle of a pandemic, where by law, we must not meet other households.

There is an opt-out service it turns out, where you have to put a sticker near the letterbox.

The more bizarre thing is that the package was a tracked item from overseas and the postman did not scan that tracking number either. According to the Royal Mail website, it should therefore have been returned to the sorting office.

The item, it turns out, was a Rubik's Cube, which is equally as puzzling.

Trystan

[Kiltpin]

The item, it turns out, was a Rubik's Cube, which is equally as puzzling.
Trystan

I agree a Rubik's Cube is devilishly difficult. 

Regards 

Chas

[IgorStrav]

I take it you DID order it, Trystan?

Otherwise it'll be trebly puzzling.....

[trystan]

Oh yes, I did order the Rubik's Cube. Like many people during these Covid times, we are returning to things that were done in the past. Some do knitting, bread making, or roller skating. For me though, it's a Rubik's Cube.

[LizzieL]

It's not just Royal Mail its various couriers too. Several times in the last few weeks we have had posts on our village website from people who are trying to track down parcels which they have been told have been delivered but they have not actually reached them. They usually turn up delivered to a neighbour, I think mostly in error not deliberately left with a neighbour.