A nice story with a nice ending, for an obviously nice couple of people. Well done.
imfloating, you should have. Do you have any idea what elderly stretcher women fetch on today’s market?
How does this work inthe case of third parties delivering merchandise to the wrong house? For example, if UPS accidentally delivered a computer, or even better, let’s say they delivered, by mistake, a list of telephone numbers of all of their customers…could I consider that my property? Could I sell that list off to some telemarketers?
YMMV, it depends how much meat’s on the bones.
Then a sensible law would say that any request for return must include the explanation that the receiving person is not obliged to help, nor to incur any expense. Saying it’s illegal even to request minor no-cost help in fixing a shipping mistake seems absurd.
And it appears that UPS doesn’t know about this: Last year I received a package intended for a neighbor (tulip bulbs, I think). Before I’d opened it I had a call from UPS explaining the error and asking me to set the package outside so they could pick it up. I instead took it to my neighbor, which made everyone happy.
A wrong delivery means you can’t keep it if they want it back. An unsolicited delivery intended for you means they used a way to get money that you have no obligation to work with them resolving into a payment or return of goods.
No, no, it’s about how much you can wring out of them. Or aren’t you familiar with Oil of Old Lady?
That’s because the shipment wasn’t from UPS. If the company that sent the bulbs had addressed them to you instead of the neighbor, *then *you would have been entitled to keep them.
Agreed…I was assuming they would do the work.
I did receive a Columbia house music introduction package meant for someone else. I called them and told them this and they told me how to send it back. I was taken aback that this would seem to cost me money and asked them if they would be sending a pre paid envolpe for me to return. They said no (expecting me to pick up the cost).
So, I kept the music.
However, if they would have sent an envelope, I would have been an ass to keep them.
:smack: Crap! And here I’ve just been eating them witout a thought as to rendering.
But a world-class jerk if I had done so.
There’s no way it makes sense to try to punish those who seek to fix the problem of shipments sent in error, when the vast majority of these are honest mistakes, and the recipients are happy to help rectify the problem.
Legally entitled, I mean. I make no comment as to jerkitude of said action.
It’s slightly different in the UK: either you notify the sender, in which case they have one month to collect it else it becomes yours, or you don’t notify them (sometimes you cannot) in which case the sender has 6 months to collect it else it becomes yours.
I can’t find the cite at the moment.
So if someone really wanted to bug you, they could send you unordered bulky shipments of things, and you’d have to store it somewhere for at least a month? :dubious:
Presumably you’re not obligated to bring it inside your house. You could just refuse delivery or leave it sitting on your front porch. Most places, boxes of free stuff won’t just sit out on the street for long.
But it’s not technically “free stuff,” so the disposal depends on other people stealing it.