How do I stop being my neighbour's parcel cupboard after agreeing to one delivery?
Neighbours“Could you take one box on Tuesday? I won't be home until seven,” my next-door neighbour asked. I said yes. That box was a pair of shoes, and he collected it that evening.
Over the next three weeks, drivers brought six more parcels addressed to him. Yesterday's was a flat-pack desk, which is now leaning against my dining table. He texted, “Brilliant, I'll grab everything this weekend.” I had not agreed to hold everything until the weekend.
I work from home, which seems to have become the whole arrangement. He says the checkout pages remember my address as his alternative, and he thought I didn't mind because I kept accepting the boxes. That part is fair: I did accept them, then sent increasingly short messages about collection instead of saying stop.
He is away for work until Friday. I don't want to leave the desk outside or create an argument with a driver. I do want to eat at my table. When I said the box was in the way, he offered to buy me coffee, which doesn't get it out of the room.
What is a reasonable reset: arrange collection of the boxes already here, tell him to remove my address, and decline future deliveries? How much notice do I owe for a favour that neither of us actually agreed would be ongoing?