‘If you didn’t order takeout and it arrives at your door, it is clearly NOT YOURS’: Neighbor repeatedly rummages through other residents' misdelivered packages, then begins to steal and eat the residents' misdelivered food

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Lana DeGaetano • "Show me to me please."
Aug 11, 2025 5:00 AM EDT

Nothing is more annoying than getting packages and food deliveries misdelivered, especially when you have neighbors who are willing to steal your belongings in a heartbeat.

At what age do we learn the golden rule? Pretty young. Kindergarten teaches us that we should treat others the way we want to be treated, yet there are plenty of entitled, selfish people in the world who sure wouldn't want anyone giving them that same energy.

This next story showcases what it's like to live next to thieves. The person who posted the story explains that the delivery drivers and mail messengers who frequent the neighborhood constantly misdeliver their items. This is another problem in itself, but their neighbors shouldn't be running around with sticky fingers. It gets to the point of no return when, seven minutes after food delivery, the neighbors have already dug into the person's food. Scroll below to read the full story. What would you do if you had neighbors like this?

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  • "Neighbor constantly going through our mis-delivered packages and now eating our mis-delivered food"

    We live in a neighborhood where UPS/FedEx/Uber Eats drivers really struggle to get packages and deliveries to the correct
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  • house. I'm not sure why, since every house has a mailbox in front of it with the exact number of the address corresponding to the house. But for as long as
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  • we've lived here, the struggle is never ending. We constantly have packages and food deliveries dropped off at our neighbor's
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  • house. It happens at least 1x a week. We typically will go over and intercept it off of their porch before they even see it, but on
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  • every occasion that we weren't home to do this, the neighbor has opened our packages and gone through everything before
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  • dropping it at our houses with a post-it note that says "Sorry! I didn't realize this was yours." This has happened multiple
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  • times. Last night was the worst. We had ordered take out delivered by Uber Eats. The driver dropped it off at the
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  • neighbor's house. We figured it out about 7 minutes after it had been delivered and we went to the neighbor's house to get our
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  • food delivery. They literally came to the door wiping crumbs off their face and said "Oh, that was your order?" We didn't know so
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  • we started eating it." I mean, who does this??? If you didn't order takeout and it arrives at your door, it is clearly NOT YOURS. What would possess you
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  • to start eating it? These people are well-off, live in a nice home, have good jobs, and drive nice cars. It's not like they're
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  • impoverished or hungry. Who just assumes it's their lucky day and some kind stranger must have anonymously ordered them dinner? We got a full refund from Uber, but now I will never look at my neighbor the same way again.
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  • Wra1thzero Report them for theft every time. If it's usps sick the post master on them. See if there's a way to call the delivery services and have that house put on a banned list
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  • Ok_Muffin_925 If food is delivered to my house that I did not order and I had no idea whose it was, I am not going to eat it for safety reasons. I'll pitch it. I'll hold it for a few minutes, then pitch it. I'm not going to eat it because I did not order and did not request it and I do not know who ordered it.
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  • Accurate-Truck-4325 Ohh_Ino! The food is a bridge too far, IMO. You can play dumb about packages all day long, but to eat someone's hot and fresh meal delivered to your door instead of their's????
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  • And then to say "Oh, that was your's?" Most sane & responsible people would simple figure out who's it was, or call the delivery service and say "Hey this isn't our's, what should we do?". They skipped any of that though and just started eating it. That bugs me out too, OP.
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  • Dorshe1104 How can things be constantly delivered to the wrong address though? It has to be down to really lazy delivery drivers. You are 100% right though, why would anyone start eating a food order that they didn't order or pay for. They probably have nice things because they take from everyone. It's like why order or cook when they can steal their neighbours food. These people are beyond entitled, selfish and so tight with their money.
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