FedEx fake deliveries

[Snapolit1]

I had an expensive card delivered this week USPS first class, signature required. I checked the delivery history on the Informed Delivery app and got a message that made my hair stand on edge. It was Exception: Package delivered to another address because it was mislabeled or had wrong zip code or was redirected." What???? No other address given, and obviously there was no problem with the address. I went nuts for a few hours. The company sending it got right on the phone and called my local postmaster who explained it was likely just misscanned by the mail delivery person when I wasn't home to sign for it. Sure enough was delivered the next day without further incident. Disaster averted. Whoever opened that package would have figured out very quickly that Christmas came early a little this year. Thank god a false alarm. Scared the bejessus out of me.

[philo98]

Just had this happen with Fedex today on a shipment from the latest Goldin Auction. I had a vacation hold on the package until this coming Friday but received a message this morning my package would be delivered. Called FedEx and told them dont deliver until Friday as there is a vacation hold. They confirmed. This afternoon received notification the package was delivered and signed by a Mike. Never heard of a Mike at my house.

I paid insurance to Goldin. However as a previous poster said, for collectibles they may only cover up to $1000 which would be an absolutely enormous loss. I have a trace on it now.

[jburl]

Originally Posted by philo98

Just had this happen with Fedex today on a shipment from the latest Goldin Auction. I had a vacation hold on the package until this coming Friday but received a message this morning my package would be delivered. Called FedEx and told them dont deliver until Friday as there is a vacation hold. They confirmed. This afternoon received notification the package was delivered and signed by a Mike. Never heard of a Mike at my house.



I paid insurance to Goldin. However as a previous poster said, for collectibles they may only cover up to $1000 which would be an absolutely enormous loss. I have a trace on it now.

I'm sure Goldin uses a 3rd party for insurance, not FedEx, so I'd let them know if the package doesn't turn up.

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[philo98]

Originally Posted by jburl

I'm sure Goldin uses a 3rd party for insurance, not FedEx, so I'd let them know if the package doesn't turn up.

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Yes I reached out to them tonight. They came back pretty fast and said just let them handle it. Said I was covered for the full amount of indeed it was “lost.”

Had a neighbor stop by the front door and nothing was there. They looked at their cameras as well and no Fedex truck even came by the house. So it’s one of these fake deliveries and will see if something comes up tomorrow.

[drcy]

You may live in a time warp.

[Bocabirdman]

Regularly but not often, I have a USPS package marked "Out for Delivery" at the start of the day. The day comes and goes. The mail is delivered ad no package is there. A check of the Tracking # says "Held at the Post Office per Customer's Request"..... WTF?...... Needless to say, no such request was made. The package arrives the next day........with no input from me.

[tschock]

Originally Posted by Bocabirdman

Regularly but not often, I have a USPS package marked "Out for Delivery" at the start of the day. The day comes and goes. The mail is delivered ad no package is there. A check of the Tracking # says "Held at the Post Office per Customer's Request"..... WTF?...... Needless to say, no such request was made. The package arrives the next day........with no input from me.

Mike,

I don't check tracking as usually I get various status sent to my emails. I do have the USPS "Informed Delivery" and generally that is fairly accurate. On the occasion that a package is slated to be delivered that day and isn't, it almost always shows up the next day (so I don't know if the tracking status you see is what I would see as well). I've had 1 case where it came in 3 days later, but there were extenuating circumstances there. In some cases, and I think it's mostly (but not always) related to the size of package, it gets delivered outside of our normal route delivery (ie by someone who is only delivery packages), so that may be a factor as well.

All that said, we are fortunate to have very responsible postal service here. I get more concerned with packages I send out.

[cardsagain74]

Originally Posted by Snapolit1

I had an expensive card delivered this week USPS first class, signature required. I checked the delivery history on the Informed Delivery app and got a message that made my hair stand on edge. It was Exception: Package delivered to another address because it was mislabeled or had wrong zip code or was redirected." What???? No other address given, and obviously there was no problem with the address. I went nuts for a few hours. The company sending it got right on the phone and called my local postmaster who explained it was likely just misscanned by the mail delivery person when I wasn't home to sign for it. Sure enough was delivered the next day without further incident. Disaster averted. Whoever opened that package would have figured out very quickly that Christmas came early a little this year. Thank god a false alarm. Scared the bejessus out of me.

Similar here a couple weeks ago, except the hair stand on edge update was "Delivered, left with individual". That individual was not me. The substitute mail carrier (which is when most of the problems I've encountered happen) was not actually getting signatures when required. If she would have, the mistake would have been noticed immediately since I had one other package that day too.

Since I was checking frequently (but not peering out the window for the mail truck like I apparently need to be), I caught this about ten minutes after it happened, got in my car and took off after the truck, and luckily passed by it in a maze of off streets about a quarter mile away. Turns out she had left the package about six houses away. We backtracked and it was still sitting there. Disaster averted, especially since proving I never got it w/ a stamp of "delivered, left with individual" would have to be messy.

All this makes me want to wrap up buying any cards online. I've lucked out a few times in these spots, but sooner or later, snake eyes will come up