Parcel Paranoia
May. 13th, 2011 11:42 am![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png)
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This morning the Lasership guy dropped off a parcel on Simpson Ave (where I live) and placed it between the swinging outer door and the security door without ringing the doorbell. I didn't get to see the Lasership courier by the time I got to the door.
I picked it up 15-30 seconds later and went back inside (I live on the ground level), then 5-10 seconds later I hear someone walk up the steps, open the swinging door, and that's when I saw approximately a 5'6" asian (possibly Korean, I'm Korean, and my gut feeling was that he was Korean in his late 30's to early 40's), but it could have been a mexican guy. He was wearing a ballcap (possibly blue color).
He walked back down the steps to his mini-van (beige color? Non-new or very old model with license plate 311LV or something like that) and drove away before I could get my camera. It seems like he's following parcel trucks and stealing parcels on quiet neighborhoods.
I reported it to the Somerville PD, just thought the community should know.
P.S. Recent comments suggest the same person could have been the courier.
P.P.S. It probably was the courier.
P.P.P.S. My UPS package that arrived is now missing.
P.P.P.P.S. A neighbor delivered my missing UPS package (delivered to wrong house, I guess).
I picked it up 15-30 seconds later and went back inside (I live on the ground level), then 5-10 seconds later I hear someone walk up the steps, open the swinging door, and that's when I saw approximately a 5'6" asian (possibly Korean, I'm Korean, and my gut feeling was that he was Korean in his late 30's to early 40's), but it could have been a mexican guy. He was wearing a ballcap (possibly blue color).
He walked back down the steps to his mini-van (beige color? Non-new or very old model with license plate 311LV or something like that) and drove away before I could get my camera. It seems like he's following parcel trucks and stealing parcels on quiet neighborhoods.
I reported it to the Somerville PD, just thought the community should know.
P.S. Recent comments suggest the same person could have been the courier.
P.P.S. It probably was the courier.
P.P.P.S. My UPS package that arrived is now missing.
P.P.P.P.S. A neighbor delivered my missing UPS package (delivered to wrong house, I guess).
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Date: 2011-05-13 05:44 pm (UTC)Came up with this thread:
http://forum.dvdtalk.com/store-forum/574590-amazon-sent-lasership-what-hell.html
Which says that they are (sometimes?) delivered by un-uniformed couriers in un-branded regular cars... Which answers a question we had here recently, where there was a minivan outside our office with the back FULL of Amazon boxes. My coworkers and I were wondering if he was just a super-loyal Amazon customer or what; seemed too odd that he would be making deliveries in a plain minivan. But I guess not!
Funny.
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Date: 2011-05-13 05:52 pm (UTC)That might be the most likely case, as I didn't see a Lasership van or truck when this occurred.
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Date: 2011-05-13 05:58 pm (UTC)So I guess if the guy who came back to your door was the same guy who had just made the delivery, and not a potential thief, there's still the question of why he was coming back.... Hm.
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Date: 2011-05-14 02:50 am (UTC)seriously though, glad it worked out, and good on you for keeping watch just incase :)