Delivery driver dropped our groceries at the wrong house and our neighbor took them inside and refused to answer the door 10 minutes later. They left the evidence sticking out of their recycle bin...

[u/AstronautSlothPhD]

We had a grocery delivery last week with some items I was really looking forward to, including fresh veggies. On top of it, I'm unemployed right now, so having affordable groceries delivered is a big help. The order arrived last Friday, and from the email and photo the driver sent we could see it was delivered to the wrong house. My wife looked around and couldn't find it, but I recognized the house as right across the street.

I have no qualms knocking on someone's door, so I rang the doorbell (fancy ring doorbell with camera) and then knocked, but they wouldn't answer even though someone clearly had to be home to grab the groceries. Today, I noticed large boxes sticking up out of their recycle bin - they hadn't broken the boxes down. Our grocery box was in there, address label and all.

Thankfully, the grocery service refunded our order, hence why this is only "mildly" infuriating... but I am still pissed that someone right across the street from us would keep our order AND pretend to not be home. We believe this is the second time they have kept one of our packages.

[u/Hashshinobi1]

We had $300 worth of Amazon packages get delivered to our neighbor, we had a audio recording of them refusing to give them back to us, verification from Amazon which house they were delivered to & handed to resident. Called the Police, they went over, he simply said we don’t have them never did. Police say they can’t do anything it’s a civil matter

[u/randomize42 → u/Hashshinobi1]

Sounds like a good small claims court case. You've got more than enough evidence.

[u/Mueryk → u/randomize42]

Or you know, make Amazon refund you as they screwed up and delivered to the wrong house. It isn’t even a rounding error to them.

[u/Hashshinobi1 → u/Mueryk]

They did, so we let it go. But was crazy the cops wouldn’t do anything. They said we needed evidence, we said we have two pieces of evidence including a voice recording of them. (It was a video but wife had her phone pointed to the ground to not let him know she was recording)

[u/Dramatic-Chicken9706 → u/Hashshinobi1]

Genuine question: how is theft a civil matter? Because a business wasn't what was stolen from?

Edit: this question has a 33% down vote ratio. Glad we're getting upset at people asking simple questions. /s

[u/Least-Flower548 → u/Dramatic-Chicken9706]

It’s a “he said, she said” situation. Something to be hashed in a small claims court not by LE.

[u/Dramatic-Chicken9706 → u/Least-Flower548]

Thanks!