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Unbelievable but True

SoX — Thu, 06 Dec 2018 19:09:23 GMT

I was just checking my email and saw that FedEx had delivered my package. Really ... ? I hadn't heard the doorbell. The notice said the package was signed for by "Behindbush" ... I kid you not.

So I opened the front door and there's this big FedEx sticker on my mailbox ... for everyone going by my house to see ... which said "package is behind bush." !!!

Re: Unbelievable but True

Fressa — Thu, 06 Dec 2018 19:15:20 GMT

I believe you!!! I had the driver that just left mine on the street below the mailbox because he didn't want to walk down the driveway. (Did I mention that I have two neighbors who "borrow" my Sunday paper?) Honestly.....you just have to shake your head with this stuff.

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Bri369 — Thu, 06 Dec 2018 20:37:01 GMT

Clever - but aggravating.

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Laura14 — Thu, 06 Dec 2018 20:43:30 GMT

Okay that is not funny but it is funny. Snap a pic and send it to Fedex with a polite recommendation you applaud the driver's effort but he kind of defeated the purpose with a public announcement.

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chickenbutt — Thu, 06 Dec 2018 20:48:51 GMT

It must be the week for it! Earlier this week I had one from USPS NOT delivered as it was scanned 'animal interference' (a lie). Odd how, since the letter carrier did come up to my house and deliver my neighbor's mail into my mailbox. Yet, apparently, a herd of animals showed up precluding delivery of any of MY mail, not to mention my pkg (got it the next day).

Yesterday I had a UPS paracel delivered and it was scanned 'Met Customer Boy'. Huh? It was dropped on my porch. There were no humans or animals out there. Just a UPS guy dropping the parcel.

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Carmie — Thu, 06 Dec 2018 20:50:50 GMT

Oh that is too funny. What was that guy thinking?

Many years ago, UPS delivered a package of Wolferman's treats to my back deck at Christmas time. We do not use that deck all winter.

The sender of the gift called to see if I received the package...I told her no.

A day or two later, I noticed my dog, who was begging to be let out, chewing on something on the deck. He chewed a hole into the cardboard box and ate a pack of muffins that were frozen stiff. That box must have been under a bench on the deck for about a week. There was snow on my deck a foot high and no human foot prints through it.

That is the first time anyone has ever walked into my back yard, climbed up the steps to my deck and left a package hidden under a bench so it couldn't be seen.

I think they must hire a lot of temporary employees who are missing a few marbles for the holiday deliveries.

Re: Unbelievable but True

SoX — Thu, 06 Dec 2018 21:48:40 GMT

@Laura14 wrote:
Okay that is not funny but it is funny. Snap a pic and send it to Fedex with a polite recommendation you applaud the driver's effort but he kind of defeated the purpose with a public announcement.

@Laura14 @Carmie @chickenbutt @Fressa @Bri369

I thought about doing just that ... along with a piece of my mind; but then I remembered I'd already used up that piece for this season.

Not so funny, though ... when I put on my jacket and walked down to the "bush," it was apparent the box could readily be seen by anyone walking toward my house ... grrrr!

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chrystaltree — Thu, 06 Dec 2018 21:45:20 GMT

I don't mean to laugh but that is dumbest thing I heard all week. Why didn't he just leave it on the sidewalk with big "take this package!" sign on it. It's that time of year and delivery people are under pressure but they still need to stop and think. UPS tried to deliver a package to my upstairs neighbor at 9pm last night. I could see them on the stairs, they didn't ring my bell but I buzzed them in. I thought they would leave the two package by the mailbox or perhaps go up and leave them at her door. They went up with the packges and knocked. They came back down with the packages. They didn't leave them inside near the mailboxes. They went back out and left them on the outside landing. LOL Why? I cannot tell you. It made no sense at all since they had been inside. Why not leave them inside? While I pondered if I should pull the packages inside, my neighbor came home and retrieved them.

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Laura14 — Thu, 06 Dec 2018 21:45:51 GMT

@SoX You and me both! Shipping has been a bear this year.

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faeriemoon — Thu, 06 Dec 2018 23:19:34 GMT

I had two orders from Amazon come up as " handed to resident" on my order history. They were left on my front porch as no one was home when they arrived.

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Kachina624 — Fri, 07 Dec 2018 00:10:14 GMT

@faeriemoon wrote:
I had two orders from Amazon come up as " handed to resident" on my order history. They were left on my front porch as no one was home when they arrived.

@faeriemoon. Apparently you aren't memorable.

Re: Unbelievable but True

Spurt — Fri, 07 Dec 2018 01:09:56 GMT

@SoX

That sounds normal for Fed-Ex.....One of my favorite stories didn't even occur during the busy holiday season---I was home all day, I went out front to water my container plants and saw the FedEx sticker on my front door---

Shipper requests signature was checked, and also this was the final attempt was also checked.

The problem---

1. Apparently he never knocked.

2. Tracking on the website showed this was the first attempt and no way should it have been a final attempt!

3. This was a family DVD of my neice's performance in a school play. Since it had no value, except to family, my brother specifically requested no signature required and just to leave it at my front door. Why the Fed EX guy required a signature WHO KNOWS!!! My brother sent it Fed Ex so I could give it to my aunt as a surprise at her birthday party. When I told my brother what happened He was hopping mad, and called Fed Ex and chewed them out. They did redeliver it

And there are other Fed Ex stories but you get the drift

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Mary Bailey — Fri, 07 Dec 2018 01:19:25 GMT

Amazon has sometimes said

"handed to customer" or "left in mailroom"

Neither NEVER happened. I don't have a mailroom and I never met a delivery person at the door.

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SharkE — Fri, 07 Dec 2018 01:47:40 GMT

Service any more just don't exist.

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Lindsays Grandma — Fri, 07 Dec 2018 01:51:23 GMT

@Laura14 wrote:
Okay that is not funny but it is funny. Snap a pic and send it to Fedex with a polite recommendation you applaud the driver's effort but he kind of defeated the purpose with a public announcement.

Well said...

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Lindsays Grandma — Fri, 07 Dec 2018 01:55:25 GMT

@chickenbutt wrote:
It must be the week for it! Earlier this week I had one from USPS NOT delivered as it was scanned 'animal interference' (a lie). Odd how, since the letter carrier did come up to my house and deliver my neighbor's mail into my mailbox. Yet, apparently, a herd of animals showed up precluding delivery of any of MY mail, not to mention my pkg (got it the next day).

Yesterday I had a UPS paracel delivered and it was scanned 'Met Customer Boy'. Huh? It was dropped on my porch. There were no humans or animals out there. Just a UPS guy dropping the parcel.

Talk about weird, you sure have some strange delivery people, it's a wonder you even get your packages delivered.

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Lindsays Grandma — Fri, 07 Dec 2018 02:07:03 GMT

@chrystaltree wrote:
I don't mean to laugh but that is dumbest thing I heard all week. Why didn't he just leave it on the sidewalk with big "take this package!" sign on it. It's that time of year and delivery people are under pressure but they still need to stop and think. UPS tried to deliver a package to my upstairs neighbor at 9pm last night. I could see them on the stairs, they didn't ring my bell but I buzzed them in. I thought they would leave the two package by the mailbox or perhaps go up and leave them at her door. They went up with the packges and knocked. They came back down with the packages. They didn't leave them inside near the mailboxes. They went back out and left them on the outside landing. LOL Why? I cannot tell you. It made no sense at all since they had been inside. Why not leave them inside? While I pondered if I should pull the packages inside, my neighbor came home and retrieved them.

It's obvious the part time help they hire for the holiday's don't think, but this is beyond "don't think", glad the neighbor got the packages before they disappeared.

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faeriemoon — Fri, 07 Dec 2018 11:57:22 GMT

@Kachina624 wrote:
@faeriemoon wrote:
I had two orders from Amazon come up as " handed to resident" on my order history. They were left on my front porch as no one was home when they arrived.
@faeriemoon. Apparently you aren't memorable.

Ha!! @Kachina624, that's pretty much a given! LOL

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qtrmoonlady1 — Fri, 07 Dec 2018 13:31:37 GMT

@faeriemoon wrote:
I had two orders from Amazon come up as " handed to resident" on my order history. They were left on my front porch as no one was home when they arrived.

@faeriemoon - That's happened to me, too! This week Amazon lost one of my packages, apologized and then offered to send a replacement. But when I looked at the details in my order history, it said "Customer refused delivery". I was at work all day - I guess my cat learned to talk because no one else was home!

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ID2 — Fri, 07 Dec 2018 16:05:52 GMT

I feel you should be grateful that the driver indicated where he left your package. I surely don't find this unbelievable and bad. You got your package.