Package Theft

[vinyl-raven.livejournal.com]

So my inlaws sent me me birthday package and the post office says it was delivered on the 7th. No one in my apartment building has see it. So it was probably stolen off our pourch, I know this happens a lot. Yet through out the 3 yrs I've live here this had never happened before.. I live on a end of a side street in teele square.
I am talking to the post office tomorrow just to see if it is there.

Anyways, just get packages insured and with a signature required.

Comments

[glen-highland.livejournal.com]

Bummer! If you haven't already: check the side door if you're on a corner lot, check your neighbor porches and even under the parked cars. We've had USPS leave boxes in the whackiest locations..

thank you

[vinyl-raven.livejournal.com]

Thats a good idea, I'll investigate in the morning

[talonvaki.livejournal.com]

Somerville mail delivery is the worst I have ever experienced, and I've lived in Canada and Georgia. If they do deliver it, then the weather gets it. Or they jam it in the mail box. Or they deliver it to someone else. I got my neighbor's credit card bill once...good thing I'm not into identity theft.

That's why I have a PO Box at South Station (the 24 hour main post office). Much better to know my mail is inside and safe (and dry) than to deal with Somerville's PO.

[firepail.livejournal.com]

TESTIFY!! I get my mail maybe delivered maybe three days a week.

I have complained about it and the post office has given me excuses like, "Oh, your carrier was sick one day last week". Like that explains months worth of non-regular mail delivery. And yes, I know that I may not actually have mail every day--but it seems unlikely that my entire street would also not receive mail, say, on a Tuesday. And when I do get my mail, it is usually bundled with my neighbors mail, or items marked 'fragile' are folded and jammed into the box, or my personal favorite, the bundle of mail left in the middle of the porch that is not-enclosed.

I too have had packages disappear from my porch. It sucks because who wants to suspect their neighbors? It is good to try to mention such an event to neighbors though to find out if similar things have happened to them or to at least put them on guard about their own mail if they are expecting packages.

Are Canada and GA known for bad mail delivery?

[closetalker11.livejournal.com]

I like when my mail guy doesn't deliver for a few days, and then I come home to a mailbox so jammed with mail I can't pull it out without ripping something.

I also liked the time my friend sent me a gift, and then had it returned to him about 2 months later, despite having the correct address and postage.

[ron_newman]

What street are you on?

[vinyl-raven.livejournal.com]

Waterhouse

[fumblerette1.livejournal.com]

Just because a signature is required doesn't mean your package is safe. I've had UPS have people other than me sign for my packages and then they got stolen. (The company who shipped my package worked it out with UPS and my package was replaced with no problems, but still.) Good luck though!

[vinyl-raven.livejournal.com]

That happened to me sending something. DHL stole a package I was sending to Cali, I called them on it during the tracking process, but I still couldn't prove anything.. It was really a pain

[fumblerette1.livejournal.com]

It was actually someone in my apartment building who signed for it. And now UPS rings my bell all the time and tries to get me to sign for packages for other people in my building, but I won't do it. Sadly the signature is no guarantee.

[red-liner.livejournal.com]

I agree on signature requirements not necessarily helping. Last December I ordered a TV that was shipped via FedEx Ground; they left it on the porch of the house next to ours and the driver forged my signature.

Fortunately I had signed up for e-mail alerts, and I got one saying that the package had been delivered and signed for....I went outside and looked around, and saw the box next door. The label had our proper address and all, and our neighbors said no one ever rang their bell.

It was fairly close to the holidays, which probably had something to do with it, but there was clearly a lot of sloppiness on the driver's part. Anyway, I think the shipping-to-work option is probably the best bet. A PITA, but there it is.

[hammercock.livejournal.com]

Blah. This is why I have important stuff delivered to my work address these days. Sympathies.

[blondeamazon.livejournal.com]

I live in Medford, with a notoriously bad PO. Problem is, if I think about sending stuff to work, I am not guaranteed to know it arrives because we have such a large shipping + receiving department and do a high volume. :(

[yakshaver.livejournal.com]

I wish someone would open a competitor, but until then I'll continue to happily pay $150/year to rent a box at the UPS Store. Unlike a post office box, where you can only receive mail, they accept deliveries from all shippers. And I never have to worry about a package being stolen or left out in the rain or spending two days chasing one down after coming home to find one of those sticky notes or my mail piling up on my porch when I'm out of town.

[firepail.livejournal.com]

Although being forced to get a PO Box for reliable mail delivery when people have already paid for postage and we are supposed to actually receive our mail--well it stinks. And stinks even more if you don't live very close to a PO Box place or can't get there within their business hours... not to mention being strong-armed into paying extra for a service that is allegedly guaranteed by the postage paid on our mail.

[koshmom.livejournal.com]

I've gotten boxes delivered to me with signature required...the "signature required" paper was still stuck to the package, and it was left on my doorstop. So if I wanted to, i could have signed it and mailed it back, but as it was, i just tossed the signature return paper. I also called the post office, and their response was "well, you got it, didn't you?"