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..

[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.

[ron_newman]

What street are you on?

[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!

[hammercock.livejournal.com]

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

[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.

[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?"