Everything else he said and it isn’t just UPS. I work for that internet giant known lovingly as Da Jungle which started doing its own deliveries a year/18 months back. I ordered 4 pairs of rather expensive tennis shoes from them/us and they were delivered by one of our flex drivers who left it at the house next door.
The abandoned house next door.
The really clearly abandoned house next door with all the notices tacked to it.
:smack:
Luckily two things happened; being the nervous types about abandoned property that close to us as soon as we saw a box appear on the porch we investigated. Much longer and someone “shopping off porches” could have snagged it. Secondly our drivers are basically required to take pictures of boxes on porches when they drop them without handing them to a person -------- so when I started ribbing the manager of that department he could call up the picture and do a literal " :smack: me and Bob are going to have a long talk" moment. Great for me if someone had lifted them.
I’ll be hoping too -------- even though I did at first start to read it as the fish and not the stringed instrument.
Maybe this question should have its own thread, but from the title I was wondering what is the legal case if your next door stoner teenager buys pot by mail, and has it delivered to you, and you sign for it because you don’t know what it is. Can the cops bust you because you signed for it?
Another vote that this is probably just a simple error, not a theft, and that you’re blowing it out of proportion.
We get lots of things delivered at my house. Amazon Prime and various other online orders. Several boxes a week. I wouldn’t bat an eye if a giant box showed up, and I probably wouldn’t bother to check the address either, unless it was around Christmas or my birthday, and thus might be a gift for me I shouldn’t open. I’d just assume that my wife ordered something bulky.
UPS is notorious for leaving packages, insured or not on door steps and porches. My actual R.R. mail box is at least a mile from my house. Mailmen, school buses or trash pickup will not traverse my road because it is an unimproved county road. I have many pkgs.left on the ground by my mailboxes. I prefer USPS to deliver my pkgs. If it doesn’t fit in my box the postal del.person will leave me a note to pick-up at the post office in town. I have no problem with that. It’s safer than a large box laying on the ground, I think.Good luck with your guitar, hope it works out.
My former live-in landlord made a living fixing up and reselling stuff, mostly old school tube amplifiers. I typically got up about 3-4 hours before he did. I signed for so many packages that were addressed to someone else, I straight up didn’t notice that a large box was actually addressed to the neighbour, my landlord did, when he got up.
I suspect it was delivered to ours for the same reason; we got so many deliveries, like multiple times a day level, and it was kinda normal size for the stuff we had delivered. Or it could be that someone couldn’t tell an 8 from a 6 in a hurry.
Of course, we knew that neighbour, so just dropped it round, but it can happen that easily, it really doesn’t mean anyone’s stealing it. Hope you get it back!
Neighbor came by and dropped the package off. She has my same house number, but on a different street (same neighborhood).
I just called UPS and let them know I had it. It’s wonderful to know that there are people out there willing to help out their neighbors.
I’ll post photos in the next few days in Cafe’s Guitar thread. I’m heading out of town for the Holiday.
Thanks everyone for the advise and encouragement. I’m not used to getting packages this valuable. LOL most of my packages are worth less than $70. It took a year to save enough for this bass
I once got the wrong package delivered to me, because the UPS tag came off of my package, and got stuck on someone else’s, and the UPS driver gave me the package. I was expecting something, so I opened it, but it had a bunch of toddler toys and books in it. That’s when I examined, and realized there was a second tag on it. I called Amazon, and explained that my package was tagless, on the UPS truck, and might get sent back to them, and I wanted redelivery, and in the meantime, I had someone else’s stuff, which coincidentally happened to be from Amazon.
Their answer to the package I had was that I could keep it or dispose of it, and eventually the people who hadn’t gotten their stuff would figure it out and call. That didn’t seem acceptable to me, so I got in my car, and drove ten minutes to deliver the package. It turned out to be birthday presents, so, in fact, time sensitive. The customer was quite grateful that I had brought their stuff over.
I got my redelivery in two days. I assume my original package got returned.
Now that the OP has had his good news, I have to ask? Does he live alone? Since he seems so surpruised that somone would simply sign for a delievery. Because I might be surprised at an unexpected delivery at my apartment (where I live alone), but not at my office, where we get multiple delieveries a day and or at my parents house, where I spend the weekends, and the signer is whoever gets to the door first (and presumes that its some other housemates order).
Never had a delievery mixup? "whats that? I thought you ordered it, no…hey the name is not ours and the address is close by.
Why are you so obsessed about whether the wrong recipient opened the box? I’ve received a package not addressed to me and opened it up without a second thought. I mean, once I saw it was an item I didn’t order, I checked the address label and brought it to the correct recipient - and I didn’t touch or damage the item in any way. But I wouldn’t sweat it if someone cracked the seal, checked inside - “honey, did you order a guitar?” - and then sent it on to you without harming the instrument inside.
