Weird situation with neighbor

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yeah, I don’t think it’s “theft” if a package is delivered to your own house, people.

Do you mean it's not "theft" to you if the neighbor kept what was delivered to her own door?

Do you live in a "finders keepers" mentality concerning items clearly labeled as belonging to other people? So you'd keep a package that was misdelivered to your house, PP?

[Anonymous]

I love the drone ideas, they made me laugh. I don’t actually fly drones. Much nerdier, I make period correct WWII aircraft and then meet up with others way out in the country to fly them.

I’ve emailed the seller and shipper though I imagine I won’t hear until after the holidays.

I’m still fairly certain our neighbor has the package. It’s a weird shape and our camera can see onto her front walk. Oh well, I’m dropping it with her. Hope she enjoys the motors.

[Anonymous]

Have any of you saying it's the seller's issue ever owned a small business? If the seller fulfills his/her duty, i.e. mails the package to the correct address, then it's the *carrier's* fault that it doesn't arrive. Recipients need to file a claim with the carrier, whether it's USPS/FedEx/UPS/etc. The seller did nothing wrong and should not have to suffer financial consequences.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I love the drone ideas, they made me laugh. I don’t actually fly drones. Much nerdier, I make period correct WWII aircraft and then meet up with others way out in the country to fly them.

I’ve emailed the seller and shipper though I imagine I won’t hear until after the holidays.

I’m still fairly certain our neighbor has the package. It’s a weird shape and our camera can see onto her front walk. Oh well, I’m dropping it with her. Hope she enjoys the motors.

This is so strange, OP! What is your neighbor like?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Have any of you saying it's the seller's issue ever owned a small business? If the seller fulfills his/her duty, i.e. mails the package to the correct address, then it's the *carrier's* fault that it doesn't arrive. Recipients need to file a claim with the carrier, whether it's USPS/FedEx/UPS/etc. The seller did nothing wrong and should not have to suffer financial consequences.

That’s not how it works; this is a well-settled legal issue. The seller is the one who arranges for shipping so the seller is responsible if the package doesn’t get to the customer. It’s up to the seller to work it out with the carrier.

[Anonymous]

I have severe brain fog from a medical condition, OP. I could easily bring a package inside, stick it somewhere, and forget it have it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The neighbors could have called the police ON YOU claiming you were harassing her. True story, was told by an Amazon CS person to never pursue the misdelivered packages. In my case my neighbor stole my cutting board worth $12 or so.

Give me a break. Amazon CS did not tell you that.

OP contact the seller, hopefully it was insured and can be re-shipped with no loss to the seller.

Most police departments have an online reporting system for incidents like this. File there if you are inclined, but don’t call.

I swear she did! Not the one on their chat but the one on the phone. I told her I went over to the neighbor and they denied it and she told me to never do this. She did say it happened when the visitor became agitated but that it’s best to not even try.

I believe you, PP. The sellers like Amazon don't want to end up in the news as part of a headline like, "Woman shoots neighbor for trying to retrieve misdelivered Amazon package." I'm being serious. I'd bet that many companies advise buyers not to try to track down packages if there is even an iota of resistance by neighbors. Too dangerous, these days, and the seller's name would end up attached to any trouble, even though it's nothing to do with the seller.

Thank you for believing me! I was pretty shook then, tbh.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah, I don’t think it’s “theft” if a package is delivered to your own house, people.

Do you mean it's not "theft" to you if the neighbor kept what was delivered to her own door?

Do you live in a "finders keepers" mentality concerning items clearly labeled as belonging to other people? So you'd keep a package that was misdelivered to your house, PP?

No, not at all. In fact, we have a lot of misdelivered items in our neighborhood. We all return packages and mail that are clearly misdelivered. But, a package delivered to the wrong address is the fault of the shipping company. If I found out a package was delivered to someone else, and I never heard from that neighbor (let’s say I didn’t know them), I would contact the company because it was 100% their error.

I just can’t imagine thinking of it as theft.

[Anonymous]

The two places I have lived, MoCo and DC, the police definitely are not going to respond to this issue. There is no point in calling them.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I would check the rest of the ring footage and watch for a package thief.

I have it on the camera her bringing it in approximately 2 hours after it was delivered.

Your Ring records when the person across the street opens their door and picks up a package? I didn't think a Ring would capture movement from that far away.

[Anonymous]

I get a ton of packages. Oftentimes, I retrieve them from outside and put them in the mudroom to deal w eventually. I once realized after 2 weeks that a neighbor’s package was in my pile and I hadn’t noticed it was mis-delivered when I grabbed it. I wonder if something like this happened.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The neighbors could have called the police ON YOU claiming you were harassing her. True story, was told by an Amazon CS person to never pursue the misdelivered packages. In my case my neighbor stole my cutting board worth $12 or so.

Give me a break. Amazon CS did not tell you that.

OP contact the seller, hopefully it was insured and can be re-shipped with no loss to the seller.

Most police departments have an online reporting system for incidents like this. File there if you are inclined, but don’t call.

I swear she did! Not the one on their chat but the one on the phone. I told her I went over to the neighbor and they denied it and she told me to never do this. She did say it happened when the visitor became agitated but that it’s best to not even try.

I believe you, PP. The sellers like Amazon don't want to end up in the news as part of a headline like, "Woman shoots neighbor for trying to retrieve misdelivered Amazon package." I'm being serious. I'd bet that many companies advise buyers not to try to track down packages if there is even an iota of resistance by neighbors. Too dangerous, these days, and the seller's name would end up attached to any trouble, even though it's nothing to do with the seller.

Thank you for believing me! I was pretty shook then, tbh.

Advising people not to confront their neighbors is 100% different from advising someone they could get the police called on the for stalking because they inquired about a missing package.

[Anonymous]

$375 is not worth fighting with a neighbor over. Either sort it out with the company as mis-delivered or order it again.

[Anonymous]

if I had to guess neighbor gets lots of packages, brought the package in and hasn't realized yet that it wasn't addressed to her. OP - assuming you weren't rude to the neighbor, she'll probably bring it over to you one she realizes she does have your package after all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m not sure what a middle aged woman will do with a several motors and controllers for RC aircraft, so it’s not like it’s something she can wear/ use/ re-sell without knowing the niche market.

Maybe she's making a submersible.