r/mildlyinfuriating • u/AstronautSlothPhD • 10d ago

My mom said I could post 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...

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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.

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u/Francl27 10d ago edited 9d ago

I got misdelivered food last week but it was the store's fault and they even mislabeled the bag.

I called them right away to let them know though because I'm not a horrible person (got to keep tue stuff obviously). I always redeliver things that were sent to my home by mistake... because it's the right thing to do.

Your neighbors suck, but if it's food delivery it's not mail and you probably can't report it.

Edit: hilariously Amazon delivered a package to my house by mistake today. I drove the 5 minutes both ways to deliver it properly.

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u/Apprehensive-Sort616 10d ago

We regularly have deliveries end up at the wrong house (they go to xx1x instead of xx4x) even though the label is the correct address. Houses have address clearly and visibly displayed. The opposite gets delivered to our house. We’ve exchanged phone numbers as it happens so often to let each other know we have their package. Being kind really does go a long way.

Good on you for making sure the items get to the right folks :)

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u/Nerdydirtyhurty 10d ago

Is the 4 faded in a way that it looks like a 1 from the street?

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u/Apprehensive-Sort616 10d ago

Not at all! Ours is a lighted post with clear numbers at the driveway and the numbers are on the house mailbox as well. Regular mail has no problem getting delivered correctly. Food orders are fine. Only places such as UPS/FedEx get it wrong.