A man has vented his fury online, claiming his neighbour ‘constantly’ uses his address for deliveries from Amazon and Uber Eats – and the neighbour in question is his local hospital
A peeved Brit has vented his frustration over his neighbour “constantly” using his address for their deliveries.
To make the matter more peculiar, that neighbour happens to be his local hospital. Opening up on Reddit, he let rip: “In short the hospital uses my address for their delivery services. I constantly get knocking on my door saying are you XX person and when I say no they then ask why is it written for this address.”
He went on to claim: “The hospital itself doesn’t have a recognised address for delivery and they didn’t ask my permission to use mine.” And as if the hospital’s antics weren’t already enough, he alleged his own personal online purchases are being misdirected.
His frustration was palpable as he declared: “I wouldn’t have complained if it was just this but now I can’t order stuff online as it gets redirected to the hospital centre despite it being my address written for when I want to buy stuff via Amazon.”
The saga concluded with him confessing he has contacted the police on 101, yet his issue persists unresolved. “Nothing has been done about it,” he lamented.
“Ok used to work in purchasing at a hospital many moons ago, trust me they do have a delivery address,” one Reddit user reassured in response. “Sounds like the staff have been told not to get their personal s*** delivered to reception and stores because they are busy enough and don’t want to deal with staff whinging about their parcels and food going missing. So some cheeky staff members have chosen your house instead.”
The Redditor continued: “Contact PALS and the Chief Exec and explain what is happening and what a pain it is – take a note of the offenders names if you fancy really dropping them in it. Make very clear to anyone who comes you won’t be taking delivery of anything other than your own things.
“Also it sounds like someone has geocoded your address to that of the hospital which is why you aren’t getting your Amazon parcels. You can contact Amazon’s customer service and get that changed.”
Another person suggested: “This is most likely staff not the hospital itself. Most likely have asked to have their address removed to stop patients ordering stuff they shouldn’t.”
“Yep, this,” someone else agreed. “One company I worked for before wouldn’t allow their address for personal deliveries as it went through their whole mail sorting process and wasted their time. So they banned people from doing it and imposed a fine if they did.”
The man later returned to his post to offer an update. “I called the hospital and they said they’d talk with their admins, following that they said they’d stop using my postal code,” he said. “I think they talked with the chiefs but yes I should try to find who the executive chiefs are and contact PALS. For now I’ll talk with Royal Mail and the other courier services and if this doesn’t work then I’ll talk with PALS and try to find who the executive chief is.”
