An old German neighbour called me a thief and yelled at me because I accepted the Amazon driver request to keep his package by me until he comes. Should I leave him this letter ?
I have just wrote him this letter
in english it translates roughly to
Dear Mr XXXXX,
I am writing this letter to clear up a misunderstanding that arose from receiving your package, which the delivery driver left with me on Friday afternoon, March 16, 2024. The delivery person asked me to hold the package until you picked it up and presumably left a notice for you. To my regret, when the package was handed over, I was made unfair accusations, including being accused of being a thief and loudly reprimanded.
I would like to emphasize that my actions were completely in accordance with Section 5 Paragraphs 3 and 4 of the Postal Market Act. This law allows deliverers to leave shipments with neighbors or in nearby shops in the absence of the recipient, without the express consent or authorization of the recipient. This means that unless you specifically write to Amazon or other online retailers not to do this, any of your neighbors, nearby post offices and nearby stores can accept your packages as a courtesy to you when you are not home!
My goal was simply to act in the interests of good neighborly relations and to support a solution within the framework of the legal requirements. Unfortunately, this led to an unpleasant confrontation that could have been avoided with better communication. I am writing to you to clarify the situation and to assure you that my actions were both legally justified and based on good intentions.
Your neighbor, XXXXXX
The dude who is in his 70s kept yelling stuff like that I have no right and that this is theft and that I should've not took his package. I haven't left him this letter yet and I'm looking for your advices. I don't want to leave it hanging if possible.
As you might have guessed, I'm a brown person. I also live in east Germany in a city with an extremely high AFD concentration.
Edit: I fixed the date and the law paragraph
Update: I did put it in his letter box and he didn't even bother opening it hahahha, he just threw it back into my letter Box sealed.