Want more consumer news? Visit our parent organization, Consumer Reports, for the latest on scams, recalls, and other consumer issues. If You Get A Misdelivered Package, UPS Will Give A Stranger Your Home Address (Thanks, Mindy!) The question is: how often do people rush over to that address to fetch their package once they get the information? Isn’t that a violation of privacy for the people at that address? A UPS delivery person showed up at the house shortly after the intended recipient of the package. They do not, however, tell the recipient that they need to go pick it up: the company will take care of that. If someone calls in with the tracking number, the company will tell them where the package was delivered. Forbes’ Kashmir Hill wrote up the incident and talked to a UPS spokesperson about the real protocol in situations like this. The suspicious email becomes an attachment to the. A Michigan woman was shocked when an email originally sent to her spam folder informed her that she was the winner of a million Mega Millions prize from the Michigan Lottery.After all, UPS performs pickup and delivery: can’t they bring the package where it’s supposed to go?Īs it turns out, that is what’s supposed to happen. Set the time when your prank message should be deliviered and sit next when your spoof text pops up. He took to social media to complain about the policy, finding it very problematic. That’s what happened to a man named Jay in Texas last week. That’s not really an issue when a package is inadvertently delivered to a business, but what about when it’s delivered to someone’s home? What about when it’s delivered to your home, and a stranger shows up on your doorstep asking for their package back? In one man’s case, UPS appeared to have sent a stranger to his home to fetch his own misdelivered package. The problem is what happens when they deliver a package to the wrong place: say, 101 Truman Street instead of 101 Truman Avenue. OTOH, this has periodically popped up as a scam: Seller sends random junk mail to business in buyers ZIP code with DC, counting on the business to discard the misdelivery before buyer can track down the item. That month I checked on my package tracking and it said that a delivery. ups tracking says delivered, but not to me or my address. ( frankieleon)UPS delivers 15 million items every day, so maybe it’s inevitable that some of them will end up in the wrong place. I have subscriptions to stuff that gets delivered by UPS every month to my house.
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