Frustrated couple is constantly receiving elderly neighbor’s misdelivered packages, decides to start returning them all to the sender after she repeatedly refuses to correct the address, claiming it's a "hassle" to change: 'I reached a breaking point'

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Emma Saven
Nov 16, 2025 12:00 PM EST

Receiving a surprise package unlocks a whole new level of excitement, as we become moments away from discovering who our secret admirers are…So we can imagine the disappointment as one realizes that their package is actually intended for their neighbor over in apartment 7. Once is disappointing, but the 20th mis-delivered package in a week is just officially a waste of bending down! We understand that putting in the wrong apartment number once is a mistake. Still, when every package meant for a certain neighbor keeps rocking up at your door, there's no way they can't be curious as to where and why those packages aren't showing up their their own door…unless it's on purpose?

This couple kept receiving unordered packages to their door, so after a Christmas tree-sized pile of boxes had accumulated at their front door, they decided to bring the packages inside, in an attempt to discover who the'it's mine' culprit was. Suddenly, their door is being practically knocked down by an elderly +80-year-old woman, demanding access to her packages. When they politely ask her to change the delivery address, she refuses, calling it an unnecessary "hassle"…Seemingly perfectly content with having the couple run around after her as if they were the delivery service…

This couple had to come up with another method to stop this entitled system she had going on! 

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  • So, they stopped returning the packages to her door daily. Because first of all, what elderly woman need this much stuff? Anyways, some could argue that the couple's response was a case of petty revenge, and not the most polite response to an elderly woman. But in their fed-up eyes, it was the only way to stop the deliveries, so they started returning each package to the original senders…Whatever this woman's intentions were, they no longer wanted to be a part of it!

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  • AIO my neighbor has her packages delivered to my apartment and refuses to stop

    My husband and I moved in about 4 years ago and from the beginning we had a lot of letter mail being delivered for past residents. For the most part I resolved this by returning it all to sender except for the promotional mail with keeps being delivered anyway.
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  • Starting last year though our neighbor who lives down the hall started having all of her packages delivered to our apartment. At first I didn't know whose
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  • packages they were so I would drop them off at the building office but half the time they would be put back at my door and I would have to bring them back down multiple times.
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  • Sometimes I would leave the packages at our door but they would sit there for days and other neighbors would constantly knock at my door to let me know I had a
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  • package, which got frustrating since I work from home and can't just leave my meetings to keep answering the door for her packages. One day I just decided to keep the package in my apartment to see who it
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  • belonged to. Eventually she came to the door while my husband was home and was really upset that we had kept her package and demanded all of the packages be brought to her apartment. My husband told her to update the
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  • address because its clearly wrong and she refused saying her daughter was the one. making the orders and they didn't want to go through the hassle and update the address. So we keep getting her packages.
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  • This week I reached a breaking point. I was in labour and had just been sent home from the hospital because I had not progressed enough to be admitted. My pain had increased significantly on the
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  • way back and as my husband was unlocking the door I picked up the package expecting the baby clothes | ordered and as I got another strong contraction I saw it was for that woman again!
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  • I was so angry. I told my husband to throw it in the garbage. He obviously didn't listen and just kept it until the next day, after our daughter was born he brought it back to her.
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  • But now we are both pissed about it. It's not that it's a huge inconvenience but it's just annoying delivering her mail to her every week. So we decided that all the packages going forward we are returning
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  • to sender. Even if it's more work for us to bring it to the post office we are done with this situation. Are we overreacting or are we right to send it all back?
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  • JuiceLogical327 Do these packages have your name or their name on it?
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  • Icy_Cherry_OP They all are under her name but my address
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  • JuiceLogical327 I'd return to sender them, I definitely wouldn't bring them into my home. Are they from Amazon? You could contact Amazon and have their account closed.
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  • Icy_Cherry_OP Honestly I haven't checked the postal service on the packages, but next package we get I will call the postal office and let them know. I let it go for a while because she's elderly but I don't have the time or patience anymore. I don't think she's running a scam I just think she's old and doesn't understand and hasn't told her daughter its going to the wrong place.
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  • LovBonobos Been years since I lived in an apartment but why isn't the delivery person leaving it in the apartment office. With locked entries how are the delivery people getting in to leave at your door? I would be talking to the building management about the issue And why should you have to return the items to the post office. Tell the PO to come get it as they delivered to the wrong address.
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  • Icy_Cherry_OP Our building buzzer is by name search so they just search her name, she buzzes them in and then they drop at my door and leave. If I could catch the delivery guy I would let him know to take it back but usually I don't know about it until I open my door or another neighbour comes by to let me know I have a package at my door(which I find really annoying that they do)
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  • Emotional_Bonus_934 Talk to your post office and have delivery restricted to you, your husband and baby, the residents. Specifically tell them you're getting packages for a non-resident of your apartment and please don't deliver them to you.
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  • CeramicToast You made it clear you wanted them to change the address. You can also go to the post office and talk to them about it, I do not think they'll like the idea of them purposefully refusing to update a forwarding address.
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  • Mewtul NOR, I think the truth is that the packages are being sent to your apartment, because you work from home and are there to receive the packages. You should absolutely return everything to sender. This is so rude and entitled.
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