comes up to the door and says “Yea, I got a delivery….for a Joe Smith”. Guy at the house says “uh he’s my neighbor”. Delivery guys says “Yea, whatever. sign here.” Apparently this how it works for the Germans when it comes to delivering a package. Let me explain. We had a note left in our door from DHL (like FedEx) addressed to me and it had a bunch of German writing with the address of the house next door and the persons name. Well the letter essentially said that I had a package delivered and since I wasn’t at home they left it with my neighbor.
I am pretty sure this doesn’t happen in the states and was kinda surprised that the delivery man blindly assumes that my neighbor won’t keep the package for themselves. I guess they figure since the neighbor signed for the package and left me (the actual recipient) a note saying they left it with my neighbor; there is nothing to worry about. Everything worked out without an issue and it was actually a good chance to meet my neighbor for the first time. So it was a win-win situation, still kinda weird though.