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Watch your packages from ups carefully....

Daludog — Sat, 01 Nov 2014 02:15:15 GMT

Hi all, very upset, I have had 4 packages stolen or delivered to a wrong address. I was away for 3 weeks,(husband was home) and when i got home I was missing 2 packages. At the same time i received a package that was not mine. QVC customer service was great about it, but 2 of the items aren't available anymore. I had ups pick up the package that was not mine and re-deliver it to the right address. (my husband did not notice it was not mine). Well guess what, today i was out and came home about 3:30 or so and I got an e-mail saying 2 packages are at my front door, from ups, and NO PACKAGES!!! The ups e-mail said delivered at 2;30, I am so upset, I am doing a lot of christmas shopping and bought a lot of christmas decorations lately. From now on I am having my things held for pick-up at ups center. I have been shopping for over 20 years and never had this happen like this! i did notice I had some adds in my door handle, so they might have been taken by someone delivering them. I hate to think it might ave been one of my neighbors, but you never know. So be careful about packages at this time of year!

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issiestorm — Sat, 01 Nov 2014 04:15:35 GMT

I'm sorry this happened to you. Whenever I'm expecting a UPS package I get the tracking number and follow the progress online. On the day that it's to be delivered, I make a point of staying home until it has arrived. I have seen various items on the morning news from time to time that films someone stealing a package left on a doorstep, so I know it happens. I'm retired, and I realize not everyone has the option of staying at home, so having your packages held for pickup is a good idea. Or if you have a work address you can have them sent there, which is what I would do if I were still working.

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hckynut — Sat, 01 Nov 2014 06:19:52 GMT

Sorry you had this problem, I mean problems with your packages.

Where we live all the ones that deliver to our home know where to put the package where nobody would dare venture to try to "remove/steal" them. We live in a rural, but remote type area, and unless a person(s)have been in this particular area? They wouldn't even know their were homes buried in this treed off area.

And should I be sitting home and someone dare to do this? Chances are better that they would be carried away as opposed to walking away.

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toodles11 — Sat, 01 Nov 2014 06:31:44 GMT

Last year weren't there cars following the ups trucks and picking up packages that they had just delivered?

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happygolfcartrider — Sat, 01 Nov 2014 13:16:29 GMT

This all goes to the mentality of I don't have and you do so I can take what is yours.

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kittymomNC — Sat, 01 Nov 2014 14:24:04 GMT

That sounds like a real mess... I hope you get it straightened out.

My UPS packages are always delivered in the late afternoon or early evening, and the UPS man rings my doorbell and leaves them on my porch. I live in a very safe neighborhood where we've never had any crime, and I'm usually at home at that time so I can just go out and pick them up. (Although there are some people on occasion walking through that I don't know.) I was watching for the two packages with the Christmas decorations I had ordered, and it showed they had shipped on the 28th. They usually take two days to arrive. It was around 9:00 pm when I checked the order status to see if they would probably be delivered the next day (which would have been 2 days), and it said they had already been delivered, in only one day! And sure enough, there they were on my porch!

Apparently it must have been a different delivery person, because I don't understand why, if my car was in the carport and lights were on in the house, why he would not at least have rung the doorbell?

Thankfully, I probably won't order anything else during the holiday season, so I won't be worried if they could get stolen. It was raining that evening and night, and if they had stayed where he put them on my porch they could have gotten very wet from blowing rain, and one box had the set of 3 owls. I don't think I would have wanted poor little wet owls!

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colliegirls — Sat, 01 Nov 2014 15:36:33 GMT

I always have a neighbor taking care of our house when we are away. She puts our mail, paper, and packages in the house. That is a huge help.

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bonnie f — Sat, 01 Nov 2014 15:39:39 GMT

wow.. i know i'd be very upset

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colliemom4 — Sat, 01 Nov 2014 16:11:11 GMT

I did see a news story about a woman that drove around loading up people's packages. She was arrested. I know it's happened more than once.

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Daludog — Sat, 01 Nov 2014 16:53:51 GMT

Hi all, I am still very upset, like I said i am picking up my packages from the ups center now from now on. i can't get over the feeling my house might be watched for delivery's. i do have new neighbors on one side who are not very sociable, and they are home a lot. Oh well, I will probably never know what happened, but I do feel bad. On the plus side they are only things, and I have 3 happy healthy dogs who mean the world to me.

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NYC Susan — Sun, 02 Nov 2014 10:56:02 GMT

On 11/1/2014 kittymomNC said:
That sounds like a real mess... I hope you get it straightened out.

My UPS packages are always delivered in the late afternoon or early evening, and the UPS man rings my doorbell and leaves them on my porch. I live in a very safe neighborhood where we've never had any crime, and I'm usually at home at that time so I can just go out and pick them up. (Although there are some people on occasion walking through that I don't know.) I was watching for the two packages with the Christmas decorations I had ordered, and it showed they had shipped on the 28th. They usually take two days to arrive. It was around 9:00 pm when I checked the order status to see if they would probably be delivered the next day (which would have been 2 days), and it said they had already been delivered, in only one day! And sure enough, there they were on my porch!

Apparently it must have been a different delivery person, because I don't understand why, if my car was in the carport and lights were on in the house, why he would not at least have rung the doorbell?

Thankfully, I probably won't order anything else during the holiday season, so I won't be worried if they could get stolen. It was raining that evening and night, and if they had stayed where he put them on my porch they could have gotten very wet from blowing rain, and one box had the set of 3 owls. I don't think I would have wanted poor little wet owls!

That reminds me of something I posted here a year or so ago.

A friend of mine had some expensive, perishable food delivered to her by UPS. She didn't know it was coming (it was a gift, if I remember correctly), and she wasn't feeling well, so she didn't go outside until the next day. And everything in the box was spoiled.

This was in the summer, in hot weather, and the box had numerous "Perishable!", "Refrigerate Immediately" stickers all over it. Yet the delivery person never rang her doorbell. When we called UPS, we were told that there was no signature required and in that case the delivery person doesn't have to ring the bell. They can just drop the package & go.

So I guess rules are rules, but it bothers me to this day that - as one human being to another - he/she couldn't have taken less than one second to ring a doorbell just to alert whoever may happen to be inside. All that money down the drain, not to mention the disappointment.

Personally, I've had far better luck with USPS than with UPS.

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cotton4me — Sun, 02 Nov 2014 14:40:42 GMT

One of the neighbors had a security camera that caught a thief in the act. The police warned us about people following UPS trucks and then stealing the packages after they dropped them off.

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bonnie f — Sun, 02 Nov 2014 14:48:17 GMT

I CANT BELIEVE PEOPLE WOULD DO THAT HORRIBLE.....

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apple1964 — Sun, 02 Nov 2014 15:53:42 GMT

Believe it... it happens ... I always watch out for my packages and I always keep track of my packages by the tracking numbers.

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luvmyteddy4 — Sun, 02 Nov 2014 20:36:09 GMT

I notice around the holidays that the UPS drivers are not the usual ones I get because they hire extras and they never ring the doorbell. They are in such a hurry they practically throw the boxes on the porch and run off. I don't order like I use to but you do get your packages faster that last week.

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Mama Mia — Sun, 02 Nov 2014 20:43:35 GMT

On 11/1/2014 lldaisy said:
Hi all, I am still very upset, like I said i am picking up my packages from the ups center now from now on. i can't get over the feeling my house might be watched for delivery's. i do have new neighbors on one side who are not very sociable, and they are home a lot. Oh well, I will probably never know what happened, but I do feel bad. On the plus side they are only things, and I have 3 happy healthy dogs who mean the world to me.

I'm sorry to hear this about your packages, I'd be upset too. What I want to add is, as the mom to three precious dogs too, please don't let them be out without you unless they are really big. People can take them too, believe it or not. The world is full of bad people.

Take care.

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chrystaltree — Sun, 02 Nov 2014 21:25:24 GMT

UPS does use temps during the holiday but it's much, much to early for that. We both work and I'm not the trusting type. I don't want my packages sitting around just waiting for someone to walk off with them. I use USPS delivery whenever I can, they don't just leave them, they take them back to the post office and I pick them up on Saturday. Better safe than sorry. One great thing this year is that our condo put in larger mail boxes. Smaller and mid sized packages (like my jewelry) and clothing fit in the mail box now. I love them for that!

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chrystaltree — Sun, 02 Nov 2014 21:29:57 GMT

On 11/2/2014 cottonball said:
One of the neighbors had a security camera that caught a thief in the act. The police warned us about people following UPS trucks and then stealing the packages after they dropped them off.

</ Yup....been going on for years. All the tv stations run stories about it every single year. You hear more about during the Christmas season but it happens throughout the year.

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ROMARY — Mon, 03 Nov 2014 00:19:37 GMT

We saw a substitute delivery person (don't recall which company, etc.) throw down a package, knock down a ceramic planter, a quick bell ring as he was running down someone's steps. The planter wasn't broken, as far as we could see.

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ROMARY — Mon, 03 Nov 2014 00:20:34 GMT

They should 'train' substitutes, no matter which company/postal whatever, etc.