If a neighbour signs for a postage item without your express permission and it goes

[Paddy]

If a neighbour signs for a postage item without your express permission and it goes missing from a communal area in a block of flats who is responsible ? the delivery guy or the neighbour who decided to sign for it ?

Its just that I'm having an expensive Sony laptop delivered to my flat and certainly with Royal Mail I'm sure the downstairs elderly couple have just signed for items in the past.

I guess I could ask them to not sign anything for me for a while but I dunno... what do you think ...?

Presuming you have a letter box in each flat, Royal Mail are obliged to deliver it to your flat. It is against Royal Mail regulations for a neighbour to sign for it. However, with other parcel companies they can deliver it to any house nearby with or without you permission.

I get delivery problems all the time even with ordinary post. No matter how many complaints are made to Royal Mail, nothing ever gets better.