Several years ago I splurged and bought Bricker Jr a whole bunch of rare and quasi-rare Pokémon cards.
The tracking info showed that they were delivered but we never got them. I called and the UPS driver swore up and down that he had delivered them. Ultimately the sender sent out a replacement pack and settled their claim with UPS.
Two months later, I get a knock on the door: it’s a woman. “Hi, you don’t know me, but I live who one street over. The house next to me has been empty for a couple of months and this package has just been sitting on the porch. I finally decided to go over and look at it and saw your name and address.”
Yup. A very faded and waterlogged box, which avoided theft but not weather for two months while it sat at my street number but not my street.
I called the sender and asked how they wanted me to return the cards, and explained what had happened. They advised me to keep them. I called UPS and asked if they wanted them, since presumably they had paid for them, but they declined also. They ended up going into a couple of donated Christmas packages that year that my church always does.
Apparently you expected the package to come by FedEx, when it actually came by FedEx SmartPost. This is a service where FedEx delivers to your local post office, and the PO delivers to your house. Years ago I did the same thing, swore a package hadn’t been delivered when tracking said it had, only to find after the goods had been reshipped that the package was in one of the parcel boxes and the key was in my mailbox. Now I pay more attention to how something is being shipped so I know where to expect it.
Technically, they brand the services differently; Fedex SmartPost and UPS SurePost. But if you see either on the shipping notification for your item, you’ll get delivery via the USPS.
For me, Fed Ex won’t deliver, just leave those damn stickers.
Our building has cameras, & we never lose a USPS or UPS package–all secure.
But I gotta fight to get Fed Ex to actually deliver.
Full circle…Ivylad has contacted NewEgg and cancelled the claim. All good! Now if I can just figure out why Tortuga Rum Cakes doesn’t want my money…I’ve tried online and via phone customer service, and both times I got a “Gateway Error Transaction Declined” error. Grrr…
Because FedEx SmartPost uses the Postal Service for the last leg of its delivery. Since you don’t have home mail delivery, as you indicated, it ended up in your box at the P.O. If the post office delivered to your home, you would have received it there, instead.
I know two people on my “condo block” (same street address but different condo numbers) that have had Amazon Prime deliveries on Sunday not show up. I know this because both times, they were delivered to me by mistake, along with packages that I was expecting.
If I’m in the back of my house, or my basement, I cannot hear your knock.
If the speakers are loud enough I can be in the room beside the front door and I won’t hear a knock.
You mean Fed Ex still delivers packages? I got one yesterday, sent by Fed Ex, with a tracking number from the Fed Ex site,and I left a note on my door for the Fed Ex driver, and the mailman brought it and put it in my mailbox. Somewhere along the way, Fed Ex just took it off their truck at a post office and mailed it to me. And I thought the post office didn’t handls anything anymore except unsolicited junk mail.
I think a good part of the USPS business these days is “last mile” package delivery for other companies. Since the USPS has to go there anyway, it’s cheaper and easier for FedEx, UPS, etc to pay the mailman to take it than to pay a guy to drive a brown van out to Nowheresville just to put a box on a porch.