Marty can call you before deliveries and you can put up a sign “Not Marty’s House”.
A few years back, I looked out my front window to see a landscaper fertilizing my lawn. I didn’t contract for it. I hollered out to the fellow that I hadn’t signed up for lawn service. He checked his paperwork and then insisted that he was at the right house. So I asked to see it. The paperwork was, indeed, correct. I pointed to the number of my mailbox and read the numbers to him slowly.
Half my lawn looked good that year. 
As far as mulch goes, they dumped it in the wrong driveway. It’s not easily retrieved and you wanted to use your driveway. I’d have no problems using it.
Don’t be stupid. Get Marty to order pre-paid hookers.
Reminder: such rules vary greatly all over the place. In my county they insist that all calls go thru 911, there is no non-emergency number. The best advice is to “check first”.
Upon review, it was 10 yards not 20. This is Long Island, NY, so everything is a bit more expensive. Also to the person who suggested calling companies until I found out who dumped it. EVERYBODY here delivers mulch. There are signs on telephone poles, 100’s of landscapers and nurseries. This is one mulch-crazy place. And I really do need another 10 yards now to make everything match. I guess I’m a bit mulch crazy too!
tell Marty that you heard now is the time to buy 60" flat screen TVs. Also, it’s safest to have them delivered to avoid breakage.
Well, if you order from the same company it probably will match.
OTOH, they will deliver it to Marty.
Now’s the time to find out what Marty likes on his pizza. When the Domino’s guy comes to the door, check the toppings. If it’s not what you ordered, direct him to Marty’s house.
I looked out the window once to discover a “For Sale” sign going up in my front lawn…I called my husband to ask “honey, did you decide to sell the house?”
One of our demo crews once showed up at the wrong house. The people sleeping upstairs were not amused. :smack:
I don’t know why, but I am really thrilled to find out this story had a happy ending. I was following it. Thanks for the update!
For folks’ future reference, any un-ordered delivery is considered a gift. You are under no legal obligation to return it or pay for it.
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This sounds extremely harsh. Honest shipping mistakes are made every day - can it really be illegal merely to request that someone who receives one return it?
Yep, it’s illegal. There’s a reason for it, too. Companies used to send out merchandise, and then bill people for it. If someone didn’t want to pay, then requiring him to send it back would STILL make him incur an expense.
It all comes down, as it so often does, to a law being made because some folks just don’t have common sense, or some businesses had some pretty shady practices.
Certainly, if it’s an honest mistake, you may *offer *to return the item or let the company pick it back up, and this may even be a good idea if you have any kind of working relationship with the company in question–but they aren’t technically allowed to ask, for the reason **Lynn Bodoni **explained.
I’m focusing on the fact that the wording above doesn’t say that requiring the return is illegal - it says that simply requesting this is.
Presumably because most people wouldn’t know that they weren’t obligated to do so.
Agreed…and it is a good law.
However, you’d have to be a grade A jerk to not allow them to collect it but to insist on keeping it.
I once had a computer delivered to my house by mistake. Sure it would have been nice to keep it but to do so when they came knocking on the door…
Eh, I think it would depend on the item in question, how much of an inconvenience its delivery was for you, whether it was an attempt at a scam, how easily you could find out who made the delivery, etc.
I once had an EMT crew from the local hospital deliver an elderly woman on a stretcher to my house by mistake. I didn’t keep her though.