wondering what you would do?
our house is up its own track and when we moved here we put gates across the end to make it safe for my little boy going up and down on his bike, safe for our dogs and also safe for ponies and livestock. We breed shetland ponies and are often moving ponies about including youngstock and stallions; I have 2 highlands that I ride about the croft plus my little boy rides his pony. Finally we have sheep that we are often moving from the fields into the barn or into a fresh field. So all in all , its important to me that these gates are kept shut, everything else on the croft, all the fields, open into the yard here and the only access onto the road is from the track.
Without giving out our actual address, our place is ******** farm. We have a sign on the gate that says this. Further along the road is ********* of thingymabob cottage. The first word is the same as our farm name. Recently we have been getting all their amazon parcels left in our parcel box which is at our gates. The first couple of times i took their stuff along but it kept happening so we both complained to Amazon and the neighbour was really apologetic about it. See my thread here -
http://www.newrider.com/threads/amazon-couriers.250004/
Since then though I have various delivery vans appearing up at my front door! Various couriers and delivery vans looking for this house, open our gates and ignoring the house name on it. At the weekend my little boy was playing on his bike and we were literally round the corner doing some gardening, it was blowing a gale so we didnt hear the engine of the van coming up and my little boy came running round to say there was a van and a man walking about the yard! Today I just sat down to a quiet lunch and all hell broke loose with the dogs - there was a massive flatbed lorry in my yard - looking for this other house. I said to him, look there is a sign on the gates with our farm name ?!?! and he said oh yes i saw that but i couldnt see another property so i thought this must be it. He barely got turned to get back out and back down the track and all my chickens were clucking about risking being run over. Every time this happens these drivers leave the gates wide open!!! The infuriating thing is that we never have drivers coming up to the house for anything for ourselves, any deliveries for us are left in the box. I know I sound yet again like a moaning old bat but im seriously tempted to stick a chain and lock on the gates when im at home. I figure anyone who wants me can either walk up or will have my mobile number!
our house is up its own track and when we moved here we put gates across the end to make it safe for my little boy going up and down on his bike, safe for our dogs and also safe for ponies and livestock. We breed shetland ponies and are often moving ponies about including youngstock and stallions; I have 2 highlands that I ride about the croft plus my little boy rides his pony. Finally we have sheep that we are often moving from the fields into the barn or into a fresh field. So all in all , its important to me that these gates are kept shut, everything else on the croft, all the fields, open into the yard here and the only access onto the road is from the track.
Without giving out our actual address, our place is ******** farm. We have a sign on the gate that says this. Further along the road is ********* of thingymabob cottage. The first word is the same as our farm name. Recently we have been getting all their amazon parcels left in our parcel box which is at our gates. The first couple of times i took their stuff along but it kept happening so we both complained to Amazon and the neighbour was really apologetic about it. See my thread here -
http://www.newrider.com/threads/amazon-couriers.250004/
Since then though I have various delivery vans appearing up at my front door! Various couriers and delivery vans looking for this house, open our gates and ignoring the house name on it. At the weekend my little boy was playing on his bike and we were literally round the corner doing some gardening, it was blowing a gale so we didnt hear the engine of the van coming up and my little boy came running round to say there was a van and a man walking about the yard! Today I just sat down to a quiet lunch and all hell broke loose with the dogs - there was a massive flatbed lorry in my yard - looking for this other house. I said to him, look there is a sign on the gates with our farm name ?!?! and he said oh yes i saw that but i couldnt see another property so i thought this must be it. He barely got turned to get back out and back down the track and all my chickens were clucking about risking being run over. Every time this happens these drivers leave the gates wide open!!! The infuriating thing is that we never have drivers coming up to the house for anything for ourselves, any deliveries for us are left in the box. I know I sound yet again like a moaning old bat but im seriously tempted to stick a chain and lock on the gates when im at home. I figure anyone who wants me can either walk up or will have my mobile number!