craftymom101
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Post by craftymom101 on Nov 30, 2018 4:08:55 GMT
The past few weeks our neighborhood has had two USPS drivers: one for packages and one for regular mail. The package delivery guy comes mid-morning and the regular mail guy comes mid-afternoon.
Tonight there was a note in the door when we got home, handwritten, from a mailman stating that he so left a package on our doorstep that was the neighbor's. The note asked us to leave the package on the doorstep so s/he can come get it. The note was left sometime between 5-7 tonight, while my bf and I were out.
We did not receive this package.
At 10:15pm, someone knocks and rings the doorbell. I am seriously annoyed and go to the door. It's our next door neighbor, looking for his package. He, too, works for USPS and claims the GPS tracking shows the package was left at our door and the driver remembers leaving it here. But we don't have it. I explain that to him and he seems skeptical and finally leaves.
I'm not sure what else to do? I don't have the package. He claims he had one of our packages and he brought it over and rang the bell, and there was another package here already. I think I had two packages delivered that day but I have ordered a lot from Amazon lately. I know I would recognize something I didn't order.
I'm concerned because my neighbor is adamant the package was left here but I did not receive it. Shoukd I contact the local USPS and explain that I don't have the package? Not worry about it? Hope my neighbor can contact the seller and re-ship? I am also upset because my neighbor scared me half to death, and woke up my bf, by knocking and ringing the bell after 10pm on a work night!
Sorry, this is more of a vent. UPS and USPS drivers are overworked this time of year and mistakes are bound to happen. Now I'm nervous about the rest of the packages I'm expecting! We've already had one package scanned as delivered, but nothing was left on our porch. Ugh.
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Post by trollie on Nov 30, 2018 4:13:15 GMT
Why would they leave your neighbor's package on your doorstep? I don't understand.
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Post by mrssmith on Nov 30, 2018 4:13:26 GMT
Why is he leaving your neighbor's packages on your doorstep? If neighbor didn't ask you in advance and if you didn't offer, too bad. Not your responsibility.
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Post by mom on Nov 30, 2018 4:15:50 GMT
Sounds fishy - why would USPS leave their package at your house?
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Post by craftymom101 on Nov 30, 2018 4:20:14 GMT
I assume it was a mistake. He accidently left it at my house (he claims! We never received it!).
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Post by AmandaA on Nov 30, 2018 4:25:44 GMT
Unless that box had something like his insulin in it and it was an emergency... I would be all kinds of po’d at anyone knocking on my door at that hour! ((Says the pea who supposedly had a UPS delivery today that is 100% not at my house 😏))
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Post by crazy4scraps on Nov 30, 2018 4:28:29 GMT
Sounds fishy - why would USPS leave their package at your house? Because sometimes they screw up. Our regular carrier is really good but the subs that deliver on her days off, not so much. There are a bunch of street names in my neighborhood that all start with the same letter, and it’s not uncommon for us to get mail with our house number but for one of the other streets. If it’s something we can just put a note on and stick back in the mailbox and have the carrier deliver it to the right house we do that, but other times we’ve just taken the package over to where it should have gone and leave it on the people’s porch near their front door. |
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Post by craftymom101 on Nov 30, 2018 4:30:26 GMT
amanda's believe me, I am not happy. My bf gets up at 5:20am and is in bed, asleep, by 9:30 most evenings (including tonight!). Being woken up because of a missing package is unacceptable. I hope our neighbor doesn't do anything stupid like retaliate and take one of our packages. He repeated over and over that the GPS shows his package was left at my house, and he didn't seem to believe me that I don't have it. Neighbor works for USPS, too, and has access to our mail.
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Post by mrssmith on Nov 30, 2018 4:33:38 GMT
Sounds fishy - why would USPS leave their package at your house? Because sometimes they screw up. Our regular carrier is really good but the subs that deliver on her days off, not so much. There are a bunch of street names in my neighborhood that all start with the same letter, and it’s not uncommon for us to get mail with our house number but for one of the other streets. If it’s something we can just put a note on and stick back in the mailbox and have the carrier deliver it to the right house we do that, but other times we’ve just taken the package over to where it should have gone and leave it on the people’s porch near their front door. Except the carrier didn't misdeliver it. He left a note saying the neighbor was going to get it. I guess he then left another note with the neighbor, saying he left the package at her house, which is why neighbor came over. |
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Post by freebird on Nov 30, 2018 4:33:53 GMT
sheesh, maybe it got stolen off your porch. Maybe the mailman (his coworker) did it on purpose because he's obviously an asshole.
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Post by Basket1lady on Nov 30, 2018 4:37:53 GMT
I'd call your postmaster. You may want a record of your side of things if all this goes south. Hopefully the package can be found. And that the mix up will make your neighbor more compassionate when he messes up.
I'd be POed about someone knocking and ringing my doorbell at 10:15pm. DH is asleep early like your BF and the dog would go nuts and wake him.
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Post by Frazzled Mom on Nov 30, 2018 4:44:40 GMT
It makes no sense to purposely leave a package on a neighbor's porch (and since the driver left notes, it must have been on purpose).
Maybe it's a new scam so the driver or an accomplice can steal packages, but have plausible deniability?
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Post by mom on Nov 30, 2018 4:45:26 GMT
Because sometimes they screw up. Our regular carrier is really good but the subs that deliver on her days off, not so much. There are a bunch of street names in my neighborhood that all start with the same letter, and it’s not uncommon for us to get mail with our house number but for one of the other streets. If it’s something we can just put a note on and stick back in the mailbox and have the carrier deliver it to the right house we do that, but other times we’ve just taken the package over to where it should have gone and leave it on the people’s porch near their front door. Except the carrier didn't misdeliver it. He left a note saying the neighbor was going to get it. I guess he then left another note with the neighbor, saying he left the package at her house, which is why neighbor came over. Exactly. What I don't get is - if mailman went to the neighbors house to leave a note, why didn't he just leave the package too? |
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Post by crazy4scraps on Nov 30, 2018 4:49:48 GMT
Because sometimes they screw up. Our regular carrier is really good but the subs that deliver on her days off, not so much. There are a bunch of street names in my neighborhood that all start with the same letter, and it’s not uncommon for us to get mail with our house number but for one of the other streets. If it’s something we can just put a note on and stick back in the mailbox and have the carrier deliver it to the right house we do that, but other times we’ve just taken the package over to where it should have gone and leave it on the people’s porch near their front door. Except the carrier didn't misdeliver it. He left a note saying the neighbor was going to get it. I guess he then left another note with the neighbor, saying he left the package at her house, which is why neighbor came over. My take was that it was misdelivered, the carrier was informed or later realized it wasn’t left where it should have been, and left the note after the fact trying to get it back. ETA: I just reread the OP and it isn’t clear exactly WHO the mail carrier said would be coming by to get the package, the carrier or the neighbor whose package it was. I would think it would be the carrier’s responsibility to retrieve the misdelivered Mail and take it to the correct address, not to expect the neighbor to fetch it themselves. |
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Post by luckyexwife on Nov 30, 2018 4:51:38 GMT
Except the carrier didn't misdeliver it. He left a note saying the neighbor was going to get it. I guess he then left another note with the neighbor, saying he left the package at her house, which is why neighbor came over. Exactly. What I don't get is - if mailman went to the neighbors house to leave a note, why didn't he just leave the package too? I think the mail man realized his mistake after the fact. He had left the package previously, realized his mistake, then went back and left a note. I am unclear if the package was delivered the same day the note was left, or if it was a day or 2 before. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 30, 2018 4:53:04 GMT
It makes no sense to purposely leave a package on a neighbor's porch (and since the driver left notes, it must have been on purpose). Maybe it's a new scam so the driver or an accomplice can steal packages, but have plausible deniability? I too am wondering if your neighbor and the driver are up to no good... I would call USPS and let them know what happened so you have record of it with them. Totally fishy... |
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Post by craftymom101 on Nov 30, 2018 4:55:30 GMT
I apologize for not being more clear. The package was supposedly left on our doorstep Tuesday. The note was left on our door today (Thursday).
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Post by Deleted on Nov 30, 2018 4:58:05 GMT
I apologize for not being more clear. The package was supposedly left on our doorstep Tuesday. The note was left on our door today (Thursday). So if the package was left Tues, neighbor would have been notified via an alert, from the company he bought from, or via email. And aince he didnt have it, he would have questioned yohr local USPS branch and put in a claim for missing package. I really smell something fishy |
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Post by craftymom101 on Nov 30, 2018 5:03:22 GMT
@calimom2 I agree, the whole thing is weird. My neighbor told me that the USPS driver remembers leaving it at my door, which I find unbelievable. He must deliver hundreds of packages a day, but he remembers leaving my Neighbor's package at my door, two days ago? I don't buy it.
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Post by **GypsyGirl** on Nov 30, 2018 5:08:00 GMT
I'd call your postmaster. You may want a record of your side of things if all this goes south. Hopefully the package can be found. And that the mix up will make your neighbor more compassionate when he messes up. I'd be POed about someone knocking and ringing my doorbell at 10:15pm. DH is asleep early like your BF and the dog would go nuts and wake him.  I would call your Postmaster first thing tomorrow morning and tell him what is going on. I would also tell them about the neighbor (the USPS employee) banging on your door after 10 pm. That is totally unacceptable and the postmaster should be made aware as it does reflect on the USPS. f |
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Post by mlynn on Nov 30, 2018 10:29:23 GMT
A number of years back, I had something similar happen. A neighbor kid knocked on the door looking for a package. I said we did not have it. A while later he came back and said the deliverer insisted it had been delivered to our back door. I laughed. We had two fairly big dogs in the fenced back yard. One was a youthful black lab. If a leather baseball glove had been delivered to the back door, the pup would have had it chewed up and strewn all over the yard. I told the boy he was welcome to go back there and look around.
Hopefully it is one of those situations in which the package was logged as delivered when it hit the local post office and it will show up soon.
What I find odd is that he insists that GPS shows it was delivered to you. What...the shipper puts GPS in every package they send? And if it was true that there is GPS on the package, the device should be able to pinpoint where the package is. At least close enough that they should be able to find it fairly easily.
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Post by JustTricia on Nov 30, 2018 11:00:58 GMT
A number of years back, I had something similar happen. A neighbor kid knocked on the door looking for a package. I said we did not have it. A while later he came back and said the deliverer insisted it had been delivered to our back door. I laughed. We had two fairly big dogs in the fenced back yard. One was a youthful black lab. If a leather baseball glove had been delivered to the back door, the pup would have had it chewed up and strewn all over the yard. I told the boy he was welcome to go back there and look around. Hopefully it is one of those situations in which the package was logged as delivered when it hit the local post office and it will show up soon. What I find odd is that he insists that GPS shows it was delivered to you. What...the shipper puts GPS in every package they send? And if it was true that there is GPS on the package, the device should be able to pinpoint where the package is. At least close enough that they should be able to find it fairly easily. The truck is tracked by GPS so they can see where the truck stopped. But just because it stopped there doesn’t mean he got out and delivered a package. OP, I suggest calling USPS and reporting what happened as well, in case he files a complaint against you (if that’s possible). Better safe than sorry. |
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Post by leslie132 on Nov 30, 2018 11:42:23 GMT
If the guy works for the USPS he knows that this is happening everywhere. They have people who are new doing deliveries, people who are regular to the route are rushing because every delivery seems doubled in size and they have to stay on track. So many different reasons for why things are crazy.
My neighborhood has a Fb page. My neighbor has left 2 posts so far about USPS messing up orders. One was the package said delivered and it wasn’t (it was dropped at a different home by mistake) and the other was the tracking info said out for delivery on Sunday at 8:30 PM. The last delivery had 7 items in it and she was a wreck. (Both situations have been corrected)
I’d call the post office. If he is being adamant I’d want my side documented.
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Post by momto4kiddos on Nov 30, 2018 11:49:22 GMT
I wouldn't give it another thought...wasn't your package, nor did you receive the package that they are speaking of. Doesn't sound like anything for you to do about it.
Couple weeks ago I was expecting packages from Amazon. One missing so I look on Amazon and each of them said they were "handed off to homeowner" or something like that when generally they say left in mailbox or porch. None were handed off at all, they were all in my mailbox. Thought it was weird considering they usually say left in mailbox. Anyway I walked out right after they pulled away so I knew it didn't disappear. Next day it showed up, think the carrier just fit what they could marked it as delivered and kept going. They're busy, more mistakes will happen I guess.
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Post by leslie132 on Nov 30, 2018 12:05:12 GMT
Slightly off topic...... how about my friend ordered 2 IPad minis for her small children. Box came in everything is good. She cracks it open and the IPad boxes are tucked inside the brown paper all nice and secure......unwrapped of the cellophane which is strange. She opens the boxes and no IPad. Someone stole the IPads out and wrapped it back up.
What a sick world.... maybe not sick, but how about selfish!!
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Post by elaine on Nov 30, 2018 12:16:07 GMT
I apologize for not being more clear. The package was supposedly left on our doorstep Tuesday. The note was left on our door today (Thursday). So if the package was left Tues, neighbor would have been notified via an alert, from the company he bought from, or via email. And aince he didnt have it, he would have questioned yohr local USPS branch and put in a claim for missing package. I really smell something fishy It really doesn’t smell fishy to me. We have things like this happen all the time here. When I don’t receive a package that was marked delivered by the USPS, I call my local post office. The post office manager sends the carrier back out to our neighborhood (I live in a cul de sac of townhouses) - I can sit in my living room and watch. The carrier will first check the lock box of mailboxes, then come to my door and talk with me, and then try to figure out where he left it. Often he left it at a house with the same house number 1 or 2 streets over. Sometimes it is never found and then I work with the company to get a replacement sent. I have never gone to a neighbor’s house looking for a package, however, that is the carrier’s responsibility. This has also happened to us with FEDEX, and because I refused to go searching for the package or lie and say that I really did get the package, they now won’t leave ANYTHING for us without a signature. The driver, who never delivered the package to us, was a real jerk and decided to make future deliveries from FEDEX to us as difficult as possible.  |
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Post by pierkiss on Nov 30, 2018 12:21:14 GMT
This is something our awful USPS delivery person would do. This year she has taken to hiding our packages in very strange places.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 30, 2018 13:20:59 GMT
^^^This^^^
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Post by yivit on Nov 30, 2018 13:36:46 GMT
I'd call your postmaster. You may want a record of your side of things if all this goes south. Hopefully the package can be found. And that the mix up will make your neighbor more compassionate when he messes up. I'd be POed about someone knocking and ringing my doorbell at 10:15pm. DH is asleep early like your BF and the dog would go nuts and wake him. I would call your Postmaster first thing tomorrow morning and tell him what is going on. I would also tell them about the neighbor (the USPS employee) banging on your door after 10 pm. That is totally unacceptable and the postmaster should be made aware as it does reflect on the USPS. f That. Plus his whole "GPS said it was delivered" crap is just that, as others have said. Besides, he's misusing USPS systems if he's going back and looking at the delivery truck GPS unless that's his JOB to monitor the drivers. Where I work, that's equivalent to unauthorized targeted monitoring and a fireable offense. |
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Post by **GypsyGirl** on Nov 30, 2018 14:21:02 GMT
A number of years back, I had something similar happen. A neighbor kid knocked on the door looking for a package. I said we did not have it. A while later he came back and said the deliverer insisted it had been delivered to our back door. I laughed. We had two fairly big dogs in the fenced back yard. One was a youthful black lab. If a leather baseball glove had been delivered to the back door, the pup would have had it chewed up and strewn all over the yard. I told the boy he was welcome to go back there and look around. Hopefully it is one of those situations in which the package was logged as delivered when it hit the local post office and it will show up soon. What I find odd is that he insists that GPS shows it was delivered to you. What...the shipper puts GPS in every package they send? And if it was true that there is GPS on the package, the device should be able to pinpoint where the package is. At least close enough that they should be able to find it fairly easily. The truck is tracked by GPS so they can see where the truck stopped. But just because it stopped there doesn’t mean he got out and delivered a package. OP, I suggest calling USPS and reporting what happened as well, in case he files a complaint against you (if that’s possible). Better safe than sorry. It's not just the truck being tracked. Mail carriers now have scanners and are supposed to scan packages when they are left at your home. This is how they are able to pinpoint exactly where a package was left. If you are signed up for USPS mail notifications you will get a notification in your email, which for mine are almost instantaneous. A couple of months ago my wonderful mail carrier was on leave, which is when I can bet on having issues. A package never showed up but said it was delivered. The next day he was back and I asked about it. He called his supervisor, who was able to review the subs scanner records and tell him exactly where my package was. Per usual, it was at the same house number but one street over. So if a carrier is scanning delivered packages like they are supposed to, they will be able to tell you exactly where the package was delivered. |
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I would call your Postmaster first thing tomorrow morning and tell him what is going on. I would also tell them about the neighbor (the USPS employee) banging on your door after 10 pm. That is totally unacceptable and the postmaster should be made aware as it does reflect on the USPS. f
