Moment Yodel delivery driver dumps Christmas parcels at the side of a London street
- A Yodel courier was filmed dumping a package on the roadside in south London
- The footage, shot from a domestic CCTV camera, shows the van pull over
- The driver removes five packages from his van and leaves them on the roadside
This is the moment a Yodel delivery driver appears to dump parcels on a roadside – which were meant as Christmas gifts.
Footage filmed on December 17 shows a white van man pulling up to a kerb in Lewisham, south-east London.
He then gets out of his vehicle and appears to checks to see if the coast is clear – before getting the goods out of the back of the van.
A Yodel delivery driver pulled over to the side of a road in Lewisham, south-east London unaware he was being filmed on a domestic CCTV camera
The man opened the side sliding door and removed five packages before placing them on the road beside the kerb in the CCTV footage captured on December 17
The driver’s actions looked entirely routine until he closed the van’s door and walked off leaving the packages behind
The incident – which took place at just before 8am – was caught on the CCTV of a nearby house.
The owner, who asked to remain anonymous, said: ‘I noticed a package near my front door.
‘I checked my CCTV and realised this delivery guy had pulled over, tried to sort out his van – and decided not to deliver this package.
‘When he realised nobody was looking he put it on the floor and drove away. It’s not even the right road for those packages. He’s just dropped them somewhere.’
The resident also claimed that driver tried to remove part of the packaging so the delivery company could not be identified.
But this meant the inside of the goods were visible, and they added: ‘It’s Christmas thank you gifts for workers from a company.
The packages were left on the road beside the van before the courier got back inside and drove off
‘I hate those delivery companies that don’t deliver. Exposing them helps improve the service – hopefully.’
The householder took the packages into safekeeping and has contacted the sender so they can be picked up.
A Yodel spokesperson said: ‘The safe delivery of parcels is our number one priority and this behaviour clearly does not meet the strict protocols we set for all of our drivers.
‘We are in direct communication with the driver concerned to ascertain full details of the incident.’