# We Are One of Those: FedEx Package Stolen From Front Door **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 9, 2016, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-are-one-of-those-fedex-package-stolen-from-front-door/774291 "2016-12-09T16:54:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![purplehearingaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@purplehearingaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehearingaid)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2016, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-are-one-of-those-fedex-package-stolen-from-front-door/774291/21 "2016-12-09T20:18:01Z")
I thought you had to sign for a computer and that is was not just left on your steps . Someone on another forum had to sigh for a computer and they didn’t buy it . Their credit card info was stolen . It a crazy story ! ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2016, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-are-one-of-those-fedex-package-stolen-from-front-door/774291/22 "2016-12-09T20:22:12Z")
> [@Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](#): > > They don’t even knock. A couple of years ago I had ordered a new laptop, was watching the package tracking, and worked from home the day it was supposed to be delivered. At one point I was heading towards the bathroom when out of the corner of my eye I saw movement on the front porch through the front window. It was the FedEx driver heading back down the driveway to the truck. I went to the front door and there was one of those “missed delivery” stickies on the front door. They didn’t knock, didn’t ring the bell, never even attempted to deliver it! ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2016, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-are-one-of-those-fedex-package-stolen-from-front-door/774291/23 "2016-12-09T20:42:31Z")
The delivery drivers here _always_ knock, which is great. Our old postal guy (who always knocked when there was a package) retired and the woman who delivers now will just drop a package on the porch and continue on her way. She doesn’t even try to put it out of sight, which is very easy to do on our porch. But then she’s so fucking busy babbling into her blue tooth, I’m surprised she can manage to get things to the right addresses.:mad: ---
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2016, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-are-one-of-those-fedex-package-stolen-from-front-door/774291/24 "2016-12-09T21:46:03Z")
I have the two large dogs doorbell system. They feel obligated to let me know when the mailman stops, or there is a delivery, or a dog walks down the street, or a jogger, or someone pushing a baby stroller, or leaves blow across the yard, It makes them feel useful - though sometimes they fall asleep on the job and a package gets delivered without proper notification. ---
**Author:** ![BeeGee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b5a626/32.png) [@BeeGee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeeGee)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2016, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-are-one-of-those-fedex-package-stolen-from-front-door/774291/25 "2016-12-09T22:18:45Z")
> [@kayT](#): > > I haven’t had UPS or Fed Ex knock on the door since we moved to Texas six years ago. They drop the package on the doorstep and boogie. At least we live in a pretty safe neighborhood and the door is set back from the street a long way so haven’t lost anything yet. Where we lived in California if they had left it on the doorstep it would have been gone in 15 seconds so luckily they knocked and waited. I’m not sure what the rules are but I don’t think either service allows their drivers enough time to knock and wait at every address. > > Sorry about the laptop,\*\* ivylass\*\*. I hope it gets there by xmas but at least it’s going to get there. Interesting. My driver always knocks. LOUD. Just once, but enough to scare the cats. I registered with UPS MyChoice. Now, when things ship UPS, I get an email. If I’m not going to be home the day it’s due to arrive, I change the destination to the UPS store. It’s kind of a pain to have to make another stop. Especially since the UPS store nearest me is at a 4 way stop behind a busy hospital (38th St), but there have been a rash of stolen packages in my neighborhood (north of UT between Lamar & Guadalupe), so I’d rather deal with that crap than the stolen package crap. ---
**Author:** ![SeaDragonTattoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@SeaDragonTattoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaDragonTattoo)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2016, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-are-one-of-those-fedex-package-stolen-from-front-door/774291/26 "2016-12-09T23:41:39Z")
Of course one neighborhood in Chicago had to take it to the next level - three delivery drivers have been held a gunpoint in the last 9 days. All of them were mugged of personal items and two of them also had undelivered packages stolen. I thought my area was mostly OK until I had a measly little box from Lush stolen within 15 minutes of delivery a couple years ago. Being in a neighborhood full of apartment buildings and 2-flats, drivers never ring bells or knock or whatever because there really are a ton of deliveries and not enough time to wait for answering doors. I have everything delivered to work any more, it’s a pain to take heavier stuff home but better than tracking packages down. Oh yeah, the other fun thing is apparently the Amazon Now drivers who don’t understand how addresses work. Odd numbered addresses are always on the east side or south side of all streets. So 6577 and 6576 are NEVER next door and ALWAYS across the street from each other. I keep getting deliveries for across the street, as my front door serves 6577 and 6575, but the boxes are for 6576. Such a pain in the ass. At least the two neighbors I’ve had to take stuff over to have been super nice. They likely also got two of everything because I don’t take things over there until a box has been sitting for a couple days unclaimed and I finally look at the address printed on it. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2016, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-are-one-of-those-fedex-package-stolen-from-front-door/774291/27 "2016-12-10T00:14:33Z")
> [@purplehearingaid](#): > > I thought you had to sign for a computer and that is was not just left on your steps . > Someone on another forum had to sigh for a computer and they didn’t buy it . Their credit card info was stolen . It a crazy story ! Sounds like the thief in their case was a) really really stoopid, or b) lived or could lurk nearby and was hoping to swipe the package off the front steps. And yeah, I’m a little surprised that the computer wasn’t sent with signature required. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2016, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-are-one-of-those-fedex-package-stolen-from-front-door/774291/28 "2016-12-10T02:03:39Z")
I’ve got you all beat. _OUR_ UPS and FED EX drivers put packages against the storm door, so that we can’t open the door to bring them in. ---
**Author:** ![Nawth\_Chucka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c57346/32.png) [@Nawth\_Chucka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nawth_Chucka)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2016, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-are-one-of-those-fedex-package-stolen-from-front-door/774291/29 "2016-12-10T02:41:20Z")
> [@Mama\_Zappa](#): > > Sounds like the thief in their case was a) really really stoopid, or b) lived or could lurk nearby and was hoping to swipe the package off the front steps. > > And yeah, I’m a little surprised that the computer wasn’t sent with signature required. My last two computers (a netbook and 4 years later a laptop) were dropped off w/o a signature. Mind you, they weren’t high end in any way. ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2016, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-are-one-of-those-fedex-package-stolen-from-front-door/774291/30 "2016-12-10T02:44:44Z")
My mailman usually delivers my Amazon packages. If it’s big he’ll honk at the street and wait for me to come out. If it’s small, he’ll pt it in my car (which is always unlocked and he knows it). He’ll put it beside my side gate if I’m not home. And there have been times where something has come in after he’s left on his route, and he drops it off on his way home, because he goes past my farm. StG ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2016, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-are-one-of-those-fedex-package-stolen-from-front-door/774291/31 "2016-12-10T02:50:58Z")
> [@StGermain](#): > > My mailman usually delivers my Amazon packages. If it’s big he’ll honk at the street and wait for me to come out. If it’s small, he’ll pt it in my car (which is always unlocked and he knows it). He’ll put it beside my side gate if I’m not home. And there have been times where something has come in after he’s left on his route, and he drops it off on his way home, because he goes past my farm. > > StG The hell do you live, Camelot? ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2016, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-are-one-of-those-fedex-package-stolen-from-front-door/774291/32 "2016-12-10T03:01:03Z")
> [@Calatin](#): > > I’ve never heard of a post office not delivering things because you are too close to them. Is this a common thing? When we first built our house in 2000 the post office was literally right around the corner (it’s a small town, with a flashing yellow light) and when I went to set up delivery they said we lived too close, that I’d have to get a box. To which I responded that the box should be free. The clerk harrumphed at me, looked up the regulations, and confirmed that I was entitled to a free P.O. Box since the post office wouldn’t deliver to my house. They’ve since moved a bit farther down the road to a larger facility, but we still get the free box. We left a message with the sheriff substation and will sit tight with NewEgg. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2016, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-are-one-of-those-fedex-package-stolen-from-front-door/774291/33 "2016-12-10T03:15:09Z")
Has Travis McGee heard about this? ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2016, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-are-one-of-those-fedex-package-stolen-from-front-door/774291/34 "2016-12-10T03:42:57Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > The hell do you live, Camelot? Almost - Rural Tennessee. StG ---
**Author:** ![harmonicamoon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/65b543/32.png) [@harmonicamoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmonicamoon)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2016, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-are-one-of-those-fedex-package-stolen-from-front-door/774291/35 "2016-12-10T03:51:22Z")
I was a rural mail carrier. We did things like that. Come Christmas time, we were well rewarded. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2016, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-are-one-of-those-fedex-package-stolen-from-front-door/774291/36 "2016-12-10T04:14:59Z")
> [@CairoCarol](#): > > I’ve been amazed at the cavalier attitude of Fed Ex/DHL/UPS delivery staff - they dump stuff on the doorstep and just assume it will be fine. Now, in our case it always has been, so far. But I’m shocked at how casually they leave expensive stuff at the door with no guarantee that the correct person will get it. I’ve mentioned this in a couple of threads, but one year, around Christmas, a UPS driver ‘delivered’ a rather expensive telescope, intended as a present for my sister, as follows: he left the package on wet ground, in the dark, behind a guardrail next to a busy highway, at the bottom of their quarter-mile long driveway (she was renting a house on a farm). It was a freakin’ miracle we managed to find it before it got wrecked or walked off. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2016, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-are-one-of-those-fedex-package-stolen-from-front-door/774291/37 "2016-12-10T04:53:06Z")
You all make me feel so fortunate. FedEx and UPS both know my gate code, drive down to my place and hand the packages over, asking for signatures most times. We usually jaw a bit about neighborhood happenings before they go on their way. Might could be because I invite them to hunt my land during the seasons, if they wish. My postie actually calls me and asks me to leave the gate open so she can deliver packages into my hands. (She’s nervous about the gate, afraid it might close while she’s down here and not reopen when she needs to exit.) I am happy to oblige. I helped her with her taxes one year and she’s become more than an acquaintance. Sorry about the theft, ivylass. That’s a real pain. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2016, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-are-one-of-those-fedex-package-stolen-from-front-door/774291/38 "2016-12-10T15:19:06Z")
> [@StGermain](#): > > Almost - Rural Tennessee. > > StG Mama Plant was from Dyersburg. Very beautiful countryside. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2016, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-are-one-of-those-fedex-package-stolen-from-front-door/774291/39 "2016-12-11T02:03:57Z")
Well, is my face red. Despite having our street address the package ended up at our post office. I checked my mail today and they had left a key to a bigger box they use when the package won’t fit in our box. It was addressed to Ivylad, and lo and behold, it was my son’s laptop! How FedEx figured out to go to the post office and not leave it on our front door eludes me. It’s a Christmas miracle! (And yes, we will be calling NewEgg and telling them we don’t need a replacement.) ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2016, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-are-one-of-those-fedex-package-stolen-from-front-door/774291/40 "2016-12-11T02:12:07Z")
> [@ivylass](#): > > It’s a Christmas miracle! (And yes, we will be calling NewEgg and telling them we don’t need a replacement.) Just tell them that to be safe, they should deliver it to your good friend, Carnivorousplant. I will make a donation to the ivylass retirement fund. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-are-one-of-those-fedex-package-stolen-from-front-door/774291.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-are-one-of-those-fedex-package-stolen-from-front-door/774291.md?page=3)