Woman Stops Accepting Her Neighbor’s Deliveries After She Ignores Two Requests to End the Nonstop Package Flood, Then the Neighbor Gets Upset When She Refuses One More

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Etai Eshet • Editor
Jun 1, 2026 7:15 AM EDT

Neighbors asking for a simple favor once in a while is normal. Quietly converting their apartment into your personal fulfillment center over the following months, without mentioning it, is a different activity entirely

My building's group chat is basically a never-ending thread of "Can I have a parking spot from 10:30 for a couple of hours?" Someone sends their parking spot number as a reply, the neighbor asking says thanks, and that's it. That's 90% of all the text ever sent over over 5 years. Sure, every once in a while, someone spices things up by asking for a little bit of spice they didn't know was missing before they started cooking. Or, sometimes the request in question here pops up like "can someone take a package from outside my door?" and then it's back to parking spot requests. So I am perfectly equipped to say a friendly-neighborly vibe between, well, neighbors, works great for everyone. 

There's a major difference, though, between casual favors and metaphorically making your neighbor raise their right hand and repeat: "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds."

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    A reference photo for the delivery-boundary story, showing a woman at home using a laptop while drinking from a mug.

  • AITH for refusing to keep accepting my neighbor's deliveries after she ignored my request?

    I work from home so I'm usually around when delivery drivers come by. A few months ago my neighbor asked if I could accept a package for her because she wasn't going to be home. I said sure because it wasn't a big deal.
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  • Since then it has slowly turned into a regular thing. At first it was once every couple of weeks then multiple times a week. Some days I would have two or three
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  • packages for her sitting in my hallway. She never really asked beforehand anymore and would just put my apartment number as the delivery instruction.
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  • I started getting uncomfortable with it because I don't want to be responsible if something expensive goes missing or gets damaged. I also got tired of having boxes taking up space in my apartment.
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  • About a month ago I politely told her that I wasn't comfortable continuing to accept packages and that she should use a package locker or another delivery option instead. She said she understood.
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  • This is how a lot of low-grade neighbor situations develop. Nobody makes a big announcement. There is no moment where someone says, “Hey, I am going to start using your address as my shipping address indefinitely, is that fine?” It just gradually becomes the situation through accumulated small asks until one day there are three boxes in someone else's hallway, and the person who lives there is somehow responsible for all of them. By the time it feels like too much to accept, it also feels too petty to raise, because each individual package is such a small thing, and who wants to be the person who made a whole thing out of it?

  • The problem is that nothing changed. Delivery drivers kept showing up at my door with her packages. Last week I reminded her again and she apologized and said she'd fix it.
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    A model represents the neighbor delivery dispute, sitting at home with a laptop after refusing to accept a package.

  • She raised it anyway, politely, twice, and was told both times that it would stop. It did not stop. The neighbor kept listing her apartment number in the delivery instructions, which is not an accident you make twice after being asked not to. That is just ignoring someone and counting on them being too conflict-averse to follow through.

  • Yesterday another package arrived. This time I told the driver I couldn't accept it. The package was marked undeliverable and apparently had to be rescheduled.
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  • The friends who think she should have just taken the package are responding to the wrong question. Whether accepting one more box would have been easy is not the point. She had already said no twice and been ignored twice, and at some point, the only way to make a boundary real is to actually hold it. Accepting the package after all of that would not have been neighborly, it would have just confirmed that her requests do not mean anything, and the situation can continue indefinitely.

  • My neighbor is now upset because she had been waiting for that item and says it would have taken me only a few seconds to bring it inside. I told her that I had already asked twice not to be involved and that she ignored those requests.
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  • The neighbor being upset about the rescheduled delivery is a genuinely impressive response to a problem she created and was warned about repeatedly. She had months to update her delivery instructions. She had two explicit conversations where someone told her this needed to change. The package being marked undeliverable is the direct result of doing nothing with either of those conversations, which is information she had plenty of time to act on.

  • A couple of friends think I should have just accepted the package because it's such a small favor. Others think she crossed a line when she kept using my apartment as her delivery point after I told her to stop.
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  • em1977 It wasn't a favor, it was an unpaid doorman job. her and your friends.
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  • Maleficent_Might5448 She was asked twice and ignored it both times so...she fafo.
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  • Mountain-Status569 NTA. It was a small favor. Now it's turned into a regular chore. You gave your neighbor 2 warnings, and they did not act on either.
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  • Rubycon NTA it would annoy me as well. I have an old building that's locked during the day so I'll occasionally send packages to my sister, but
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  • she doesn't care and it's not every week. I'd never ask a neighbor routinely. The rest I have delivered to a nearby Whole Foods. Yeah it's an errand but not a huge deal. She's being an annoying neighbor
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  • Rayen_Nevaeh NTA To accept one package is a "small favour".. to be expected to do it multiple times per week is an inconvenience. It's not like you're even friends.
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  • No_Interview_2481 Enough is enough. She can change the delivery address to where she works
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