I just stole a package off someone's porch...

[Frank_N_Stein]

But it was my package, delivered to the wrong house. This is the 2nd time FedEx has delivered my stuff to this house even though my address was on the package and didn't match the address on the front of the house it was delivered to. I lodged a complaint with FedEx but I doubt it goes anywhere.

 

[littletommy]

You said "package".

 

[GLOCKMAN23C]

Glad my package is still on the FedEx truck....

 

[Areoflyer09]

I had a similar problem a few weeks back. In my case, no one lived in the particular house where the package was dropped. Given it was in the neighborhood I didn't want someone to call the police reporting mail theft. So I called the local PD and asked them what to do given the situation, their recommendation was to go get it. Annoying that it happened but simple resolution at least.

 

[littletommy]

But seriously, I think Fedex just hires anybody that expresses an interest in driving for them. The few fedex drivers I know, always seemed really unhappy with their lot in life.

 

[SEIndSAM]

Is the FedEx driver in fear of a curb stomping and afraid to visit your house????

I feel you pain Frank, I seem to have the same problem, except reversed...My neighbors deliveries keep showing up on my porch...I guess he didn't want to walk the extra 75' to the neighbors stoop???

 

[Clay Pigeon]

I've seen pictures of you Frank posted here dumpster diving, I would assume that liberating front porch packages is just the next level.

 

[mom45]

I had a huge Pampered Chef order (several big boxes) delivered to a neighbor's porch by Fed Ex. PC was getting ready to reship because nobody could figure out where it went and the driver swore he delivered it here. Fed Ex came to deliver something else, and I asked the driver if he would humor me and go check the neighbor's house. His paperwork showed it was delivered to my front porch. I pointed to it and asked if he remembered carrying all of those big, heavy boxes up all of those steps...he did not. He went to the neighbor's and returned with the whole order....it was still sitting on their front porch where he left it. They don't use that door and apparently had not even noticed all of those boxes piled up there.

Don't even get me started on the mail carrier....

 

[Frank_N_Stein]

You said "package".

 

[Frank_N_Stein]

I've seen pictures of you Frank posted here dumpster diving, I would assume that liberating front porch packages is just the next level.

You get better stuff from porches.

 

[deo62]

There was a Fed Ex driver last year in Peru that fell out of his truck while turning the corner. Truck kept going thru the bushes and into the side of the house!

 

[Frank_N_Stein]

I had a huge Pampered Chef order (several big boxes) delivered to a neighbor's porch by Fed Ex. PC was getting ready to reship because nobody could figure out where it went and the driver swore he delivered it here. Fed Ex came to deliver something else, and I asked the driver if he would humor me and go check the neighbor's house. His paperwork showed it was delivered to my front porch. I pointed to it and asked if he remembered carrying all of those big, heavy boxes up all of those steps...he did not. He went to the neighbor's and returned with the whole order....it was still sitting on their front porch where he left it. They don't use that door and apparently had not even noticed all of those boxes piled up there.

Don't even get me started on the mail carrier....

I guess comparing the number on the package(s) to what is on the house is too much to ask.

 

[public servant]

Now I know where the 5 packages that went missing off my porch in December went.

 

[Gabriel]

I guess comparing the number on the package(s) to what is on the house is too much to ask.

I have to get packages off my neighbor's porch every once in a while. We share part of a driveway and when the bushes grown over his address out front, it makes it look like his house is the one to go to for my address.

Unrelated, but I've not been a big fan of Fedex since one of their drivers actually complained to me that he had to drive all the way out to my house to deliver a package.

The driver that normally comes to my house now can't back out of my driveway. I kid you not, she rings my doorbell and has me do it for her.

 

[Sylvain]

Don't grab someone else's package without their consent.
I guess grabbing your own package while standing on someone's porch is weird as well.

 

[shootersix]

fed ex package(green logos) are owned by independent contractors who "buy" routes, and hire anybody to drive the trucks and are paid by the person who owns the route, fed ex express (red logos) are employed by fed ex, and are paid by fed ex.

that said, we've had great package drivers over the years! I work in ky, and live in Indiana, and had a gun being shipped from the factory to me (ati repaired a gsg5) and was asking the driver where I could pick it up, it was due to be delivered the next day, when he said that the center closed at 5, I said well i'll leave early one day the next week and pick it up....the next day he walked in with it! he called the route owner, and he grabbed the box at the center and gave it to my driver.

most packages I have delivered to me at work, way to many porch pirates in Evansville! my work isn't very gun friendly, so most of those "special" packages (repairs) I ask them to be held at the centers, but accessories aren't any problem, a guy at work even had a L1a1 kit shipped here

 

[churchmouse]

Fed-X/UPS guys are not happy people.
Ask as I may I can not get them to walk 25' farther up the drive and put the packages by the back door under the car port. They leave them out front in plain view.

 

[Leadeye]

Another advantage to living in the woods, there just isn't another porch to put the packages on.

 

[hoosierdoc]

Fed-X/UPS guys are not happy people.
Ask as I may I can not get them to walk 25' farther up the drive and put the packages by the back door under the car port. They leave them out front in plain view.

Mine does a good job actually. Very nice, the UPS guy that is

 

[db1959]

Another advantage to living in the woods, there just isn't another porch to put the packages on.

No but there is a forest.