Is there an address your place regularly gets confused with?

[Cloo]

Do you often get deliveries etc for someone else?

Just had yet another Deliveroo for 'No3 [Flats on the top of our street]' that I've had to point over the road. The flats are above a shop and there is a name plate for them by the door, but I'll admit it's not massively obvious, so we quite often get their stuff. Last year I had to drop off a box of some I'm sure very expensive trainers to #3 there - he's lucky we're dead honest

We also have a very generic street name and if people don't check the postcode they are known to go to the wrong one. Pretty sure some bastards in a different road of same name ate our takeaway that we'd ordered one night when we were feeling really hungry and stressed that never turned up - but they insisted had been delivered.

 

[danny la rouge]

Yeah, apparently all the other fucking buzzers in the building are invisible.
“Delivery”
“Who for?”
“Amazon”
“No, who for?”
“Basement flat”
“WELL FUCKING PRESS THAT BUZZER!”*

(*In my head. In fact I just say “OK” and let them in).

 

[Leafster]

The houses either side of mine. Even though my house number is clearly marked at the roadside they still walk all the way to my front door (which also has the house number etched in the glass) and knock on the door.

Sometimes, when they can't be bothered to walk up to the front door, they leave stuff hidden in the front garden. One time I found stuff for a neighbour under a bush that had been there several days. When I took it round to them, they were still trying to work out where it had gone. They'd got a text to say it had been delivered and had looked in all the 'usual' spots in their garden and had more or less given up.

 

[Boudicca]

I'm about to move into a house which is numbered 6A because it was build on the back gardens of the road around the corner. Next door (no 6) has been converted to flats. When I looked up the EPC for 6A, it was for a flat. I actually emailed the surveyor who did it but he refused to accept that it was wrong. I pointed out that I was buying 6A and that his survey would shortly be overwritten as I would be reporting the lack of EPC to the estate agents.

I am going to have to make friends with Flat A at number 6, aren't I?

 

[weltweit]

There is a house at the other end of the village, on a different postcode mind, that often we get and they get muddled stuff. Hasn't happened for a while, perhaps we now have a regular postie!

 

[Cloo]

gsv recently finally re-added a door number on our place (after the door was re-painted last summer) - and the trouble people had finding our house without it was a bit puzzling, given we are number 3, hence, the second house on that side of the road, with no's 1 and 5 clearly marked to either side of us.

 

[Cloo]

I'm about to move into a house which is numbered 6A because it was build on the back gardens of the road around the corner. Next door (no 6) has been converted to flats. When I looked up the EPC for 6A, it was for a flat. I actually emailed the surveyor who did it but he refused to accept that it was wrong. I pointed out that I was buying 6A and that his survey would shortly be overwritten as I would be reporting the lack of EPC to the estate agents.

I am going to have to make friends with Flat A at number 6, aren't I?

Yeah, #1 must have no end of mail/delivery that isn't there, as there is a driveway to the side of their house leading to a couple of odd little flats created on a scrap of land behind the shops with 1 A, B & C. There is a (very small) sign at the top of the driveway to say as much but I'll bet people miss it most of the time.

So yeah, Boudicca , you'd better pal up with those people, I'm afraid!

 

[SpookyFrank]

We got a christmas card addressed our landlady.

It went in the bin. That'll teach her to steal 60% of my income for the last three years.

 

[marty21]

The road parallel to mine does not have a similar name but occasionally I get their stuff , usually take it round. Met the grumpy lady who lives there once when she opened the door just as I was putting HER post in , she was grumpy about it , I doubt she ever walks mine around . There's a street with a similar name down the road , occasionally we get their post , I walk it round . On a couple of occasions I've had post for the same road but in Norfolk , I didn't walk that round.

 

[Sue]

For some reason, my post/deliveries often go to an address along the road. Same postcode, same flat number but a completely different main door number.

 

[marty21]

I did once get a large parcel (left outside) for a flat on a nearby estate , not the same number or similar road) . Walked it awkwardly around, the numbering system on the estate wasn't logical which probably explains why the delivery person couldn't be arsed . The family were very grateful, birthday present for one of the kids

 

[kalidarkone]

Yes, because my side of the street is made up of 6 houses no1 to 6.There are new build HA Houses opposite.

Delivery people and the postie apart from Aidy (who knows and has been doing the round for more then a decade) assume that my side are all odd numbers. So it is often assumed that I am no 3 when actually I'm no 2. So I often get no 3's post, delivery's etc which is difficult as they are total cunting tossers. Obviously if their post etc has actually come through my letter box I will throw it onto their doorstep.

If Royal mail or Evri etc knock and ask me to take stuff for them I point blank refuse. I will take If for anyone else on the street but not them.

 

[scifisam]

Yes, we sometimes get mail for next door. It's because our door numbers go 1-2-3-4 etc (and turn round at the top of the road, so I live opposite a number 30 higher than mine) rather than 1-3-5-7 like normal, and although I do have an easily visible door number up, and so do my neighbours, people often get confused about which basement flat belongs to which house.

Doesn't happen all the time, but every couple of months, so I suspect it's when our regular postie is on holiday and the replacement hasn't got used to it

 

[ouirdeaux]

Not now, but at a former address, I was puzzled to receive some post for the pub opposite. Not only did it have a different door number, but the post was clearly addressed to the pub, the name of which included the word 'tavern' as a hint as to what sort of establishment it was. The pub looked very much like a pub, while my flat was in a converted Victorian house.

 

[Artaxerxes]

House opposite, they deliver to number x not flat x. It’s annoying as fuck, once sainsburys did a full delivery and the cunts didn’t correct them or come across to grab us. We waited like an hour before making calls to find out wtf

 

[moomoo]

A block of flats in town is called XXXXX mews and I’m XXXXX road. We are always getting their post so I presume they get mine.

 

[hitmouse]

There's a street with the same name as mine in iirc Sale, once someone tried to send some post to the house in Sale but had messed up when they searched for the postcode, so they'd written "[person I've never heard of], [my house number and street], Sale, [my postcode]" and it arrived at mine.

 

[Winot]

My in-laws (who live in Leicester) have had their post sent to the number of their house but on the next street.

It’s the address of the postal depot

 

[Bus Honeygun]

Our old flat was just up the road from a brothel (and round the corner from another - Exeter doesn't have a red-light district in case you're wondering). Used to occasionally get pissed blokes ringing the buzzer at 1am. Annoying.

The local pigeons also used to confuse the front door area with a quiet place to die. Not sure if that was better or worse than the local seagulls, who preferred getting run over by buses in the road. At least we didn't have to deal with the corpses. Over to you, city council!

 

[Looby]

Friend of ours lives the other end of our long road. Same road number with an extra 1 for them.
We’ve had various post for them but I don’t think they get much of ours.

We also had a very large load of timber once. The company were so pissed off when they realized they had to reload and move it.

 

[Elpenor]

I live on a road that is off a road has a very similar name, so apparently this is a problem. To add to that, my part of the road isn’t accessible by car and the house numbers are not laid out in a linear manner so people can rarely find the house anywhere. Also my external light doesn’t work in the winter as it’s solar powered and my front door with the house number is about 10m back from the footpath

 

[Winot]

As an aside, it's really difficult to see door numbers round us in the dark. Very few people seem to light the door or have a number near the road.

 

[locomotive]

There is an address half a mile from mine with the same number and street name. It's just the last 3 bits of the postcode that differ. It's a royal pain in the arse. Takeaways, parcels, family members... They all frequently go to the wrong house.

 

[WouldBe]

I am going to have to make friends with Flat A at number 6, aren't I?

Change your house number to 6Z so they can't mix you up. 6X may be a better option as they may confuse 6Z with 62.

 

[mx wcfc]

When my daughter last lived here, the Asos delivery man was a fairly frequent visitor.

One day, the door bell rang, I opened the door, said hi, he handed me the package, then quickly grabbed it back saying "OMG, it's not for you, it's for next door!" and rushed off, very embarrassed.

Poor bloke had delivered to us so often he just pulled into our drive out of habit.

 

[muscovyduck]

Constantly. Occasionally an opportunity comes up to scam free items out of a department store who just won't update their internal system to correct the address or whatever but it's not worth the long term hassle.

 

[neonwilderness]

I used to regularly get letters for one of the two flats next to my house. They both have the same same number 2 less than mine, but one has an A suffix. I only got letters for the one without the suffix. Seems to have stopped since someone else moved in though

Not quite the same thing, but the numbers on each side of my street are offset by about 60 for some reason. Delivery drivers often turn into my street and drive to the far end before turning round and coming back here

 

[WouldBe]

Not quite the same thing, but the numbers on each side of my street are offset by about 60 for some reason. Delivery drivers often turn into my street and drive to the far end before turning round and coming back here

About 30 offset here. Doesn't help that even numbers start on opposite side of road then switch to my side before switching back further down. Not half confusing for some.

 

[rubbershoes]

Mrs Shoes' old flat was regularly confused with one round the corner. Even by the gas company that got a locksmith to break in so they could disconnect the gas.

All because the guy round the corner hadn't paid his bill

 

[MickiQ]

There isn't any one particular address but given we live at No 3 at the entrance to the close and neither No 1 or 2 work from home and I do. I tend to be the favourite drop point for Amazon drivers who can't get an answer from the house they've actually supposed to be delivering too.
I got a mail once with a completely random address that bore no relationship to mine which I tried find on google maps and it didn't exist so god knows how it ended up with mine. I opened it and it was a threatening letter from the bailiffs for a very large debt. I considered ringing them but decided against it on the grounds that If I couldn't find the address then they probably wouldn't either. Beside if they had my phone number I didn't want them hassling me in case they thought I was something to do with the debtor.