If you can't find the phone number, bringing it to them late morning, weather permitting, sounds like a good plan.

Yes, deliver when weather good and day light. I would just leave on porch. That’s how you found it I think.

If they get a message, package is delivered... then to bad! Cause no way should you go out now and deliver. Drop it off in the morning.

Moni

I agree with everyone else. Don't risk your life to deliver in snow and dark.

Is there a phone number for the carrier?

Who is the carrier? They should be called to make the delivery.

Yes, i would call the carrier.

It was the USPS, so at this time I can't call the local post office. Mine taking it there tomorrow morning is probably quicker than trying to reach them. I tried to google the name to get a number for the people it is addressed to. Especially this time of the year I have been known to search around the house with a flashlight if something says delivered. The address or name are not even sounding close to ours.

I would take it tomorrow, the USPS would never get it to them.

I would probably take it to the local post office and have them redeliver it.

I would just take it to the house and ring the doorbell. If they answer great, if not, leave it there. You can leave note that it was mis-delivered if you like.

I ordered some cookbooks on Amazon once that claimed to be delivered, but weren't. Replacements were sent and a week later, my original box showed up, opened and rummaged through with a note that it had gone to the wrong address and they accidentally opened it. I have my doubts!

Thank you all! I didn't open it, I always look at the address first (and wasn't expecting a kind of heavy box in the first place) There is sleet right now, but it is just sticking to the grass. I think I will stick it in a plastic bag in case there is no cover at the front door and attach a note.

I've received two misdelivered USPS packages in recent days. In one case, I couldn't find a phone number so I just dropped in on the front porch at the correct address. In the other case, I was able to talk to the owner and delivered it to them the next morning. In both cases, I had opened the box because I had other deliveries and I don't think to check that each one is correctly addressed to me.

I ordered sheets one time and was told the package had been delivered but there was no package. I called the Post Office and they put out an alert for it, a USPO truck showed up about two hours later and said they found it by GPS.

Seems it happens a lot. I guess it's easy if you deal with Amazon or some other big retailer. Once a package I sent to my daughter didn't arrive (said delivered). It was such a pain to fill a claim with USPS. They wanted receipts, pictures and whatnot. And every time I tried to attach them it said it was the wrong format.

This is very annoying. it hasn't happened with a package, but with letters. I can sort of understand getting my next door neighbors mail (although they have a Japanese name and mine is Italian) but our numbers on our address are similar.

But, what I don't understand is getting someone's mail from across town. Nothing similar in our names, nothing similar in the address. I just put them on top of my mailbox which is where I can put mail for the carrier to take to be delivered.

You don't need a local usps #. Just call the nationwide customer service # and they will arrange a pick up.

I had a neighbor order from Ballard Designs, something that came in a huge box that barely fit in my car - the address on the box was mine and I opened it (not remembering ordering anything, but sometimes that happens). It was a lamp shade and the recipient's address has all the same #'s as my but they were transposed. I put it in my car (not easy) and went to drop it off, The people it was for don't have their #'s on their house and no one was home. I wasn't sure if that was the right house or not, so I put a sticky on their door and told them where it was. I did have the right house, but of course they enter thru the garage and it took them several days to find the note and come get the package. I'd had to take it back out of my car and up into my house and find a place for it until they showed up.

Then a couple months later, the SAME thing happened. She ordered from Ballard and did not correct the bad address associated with her account there and another huge box showed up on my porch. I was pretty livid. This time, I did know where she lived and just stopped by and told her she could come and get it....she could struggle carrying it home, not me.

I guess the way I see it is, if you have to do something (contact the neighbor or the post office), and you don't mind, then take it. Effort is effort, and it is super kind (I know I'd be thrilled if someone brought it to me when the post office made a mistake), to make effort that will solve it for the neighbor so quickly. Why not? Especially in this season when it could be a gift they are giving.

I have put mail back in my box with Mis-DELIVERED written on it, or as you have done in the past if it is a neighbor just put it in their box the next day. 3 miles, it would go back in my mail box.

Our neighborhood has a locking central mailbox box and you can't add anything to it but letters, (and you can't add mail to individual's boxes, just to the "to be mailed slot" so any misdelivered packages need to go to the recipient or back to the actual post office. Most things left on the porch that are misdelivered or misaddressed are from UPS.

As long as it is safe, do what you would like someone to do for you if they received your delivery. (Take it to them.)

I agree with your plan. Heck - what's 3 miles? Good for you.

We had a box of diabetic medical supplies delivered to our house that belonged to people clear down at the other end of our road. We found their house and delivered it to the lady. She sure was very thankful.

i wouldn't go at night. i'd wait till next day and stop by. if no one was home, would leave a note on it in a less than conspicuous spot on porch or front step.

Good Girl, Iris! Gold star for you!

Ha, ha. thanks. Seemed like the least amount of trouble for all involved.

Kind thing to do. For several years I kept getting mail for a house 1/2 mile away. Different street name but same house number. And of course they'd get mine. It was annoying. I just started writing on it DELIVERED TO WRONG ADDRESS! and put it in the mailbox. The postals frequently wouldn't take it. I'd put the flag up but often they'd look at it and think it was delivered right (apparently). Obviously no intelligence test required to deliver mail. So I'd start standing it up right at the edge of the door so they'd see the delivered wrong note and then they'd usually take it. But several times I just said forget it and delivered it myself when it looked important. Finally got a different carrier and things weren't as bad. Still get misdelivered stuff on occasion.

Anyway, I'm sure they appreciated your extra effort.

That was very nice of you Iris. Sounds like they really appreciated your effort. Nothing but good karma for you!

Iris - That was so nice of you. I'll bet he appreciated it.

Our home as well as our neighbors is a ways from the road. I ordered some curtains from Plow and Hearth. Well, they dropped them off along the road by the neighbors mailbox next door. The neighbor guy brought them to me when he got home from work. I was livid because they were very expensive and anyone could have stopped and picked them up. No one seems to care anymore...

I'm not sure that it is the drivers fault but rather some bean counter in head office who is setting the delivery schedule for the drivers and only giving them time to do drop offs at the street with no deviations on the route. Those deviations would include walking down someones sidewalk or driving down a long driveway.