Terrible Package Delivery Stories

Behxo

So I ordered a gaming computer for myself for Christmas from Best Buy, which wasn't supposed to be delivered until Dec 6. Both the monitor and tower came today while nobody was home, it was unsigned for, left outside in the front in it's original box (no extra protection) for everyone to see. Guess I'll find out later tonight if it was damaged or not when I have the chance to turn it on... at least it wasn't stolen.

Another time- My mom had ordered a large TV for my grandparents and when it came, no one rang the doorbell, it was left at the end of the driveway in the box was standing upside down. Talk about service. It got me thinking though, has anyone else here had horrible delivery service and what was your worst one? Thought it'd be interesting to hear!

RoxieDawn

UPS dropped off a package I was waiting for 1 day before family visits and needing to wrap Xmas presents, the only problem it was delivered next door.

I spent 4 hours hunting that package down. They said over and over "its been delivered" at 5:20 p.m.. I drove up and down all streets, searched for all mail box numbers that had my mailbox number too..

At 10:00 p.m my very next door neighbor brings it over..

So was this delivery guys fault or my neighbor for sitting on it almost 5 hours?? I was about to have to write checks for Xmas presents on the eve of Xmas Eve.

Behxo

RoxieDawn wrote: »

UPS dropped off a package I was waiting for 1 day before family visits and needing to wrap Xmas presents, the only problem it was delivered next door.

I spent 4 hours hunting that package down. They said over and over "its been delivered" at 5:20 p.m.. I drove up and down all streets, searched for all mail box numbers that had my mailbox number too..

At 10:00 p.m my very next door neighbor brings it over..

So was this delivery guys fault or my neighbor for sitting on it almost 5 hours?? I was about to have to write checks for Xmas presents on the eve of Xmas Eve.

Wow, they didn't get signatures either? I don't understand what's so hard about getting a simple signature (nevermind getting the house right) at least that would've been of some help!

RoxieDawn

Behxo wrote: »

RoxieDawn wrote: »

UPS dropped off a package I was waiting for 1 day before family visits and needing to wrap Xmas presents, the only problem it was delivered next door.

I spent 4 hours hunting that package down. They said over and over "its been delivered" at 5:20 p.m.. I drove up and down all streets, searched for all mail box numbers that had my mailbox number too..

At 10:00 p.m my very next door neighbor brings it over..

So was this delivery guys fault or my neighbor for sitting on it almost 5 hours?? I was about to have to write checks for Xmas presents on the eve of Xmas Eve.

Wow, they didn't get signatures either? I don't understand what's so hard about getting a simple signature (nevermind getting the house right) at least that would've been of some help!

Exactly.. and I do feel your pain..

PuppetPrincess

Our post office is awful. It is actually a huge common problem around here. About half my packages claim to be delivered according to tracking but never show up. There was once that I suddenly had half a dozen boxes show up.... 4 months after they had gone missing and been replaced by the stores I had purchased from. They were all ordered at roughly different times and one was even ripped in two. Recently, we had to mail some packages with items for our wedding. The mail clerk insisted on writing fragile on all the boxes after she found out what was in them. The first box that arrived looked like someone had drop kicked it all over the place and the second arrived wrapped in plastic wrap because the box was soaked in oil. There was no oil in the package. Someone poured or sat it in the oil. Just today My husband confronted our mailman about a package that when missing yesterday and he had "no idea" where it was. About an hour ago he knocked on our door. Apparently he found the package. They had put it into the wrong apartment box. Which they claim never happens. But I have proof that it has at least twice. So I am sure it has happened plenty of times.

Did I say our mail is AWFUL?

Behxo

PuppetPrincess wrote: »

Our post office is awful. It is actually a huge common problem around here. About half my packages claim to be delivered according to tracking but never show up. There was once that I suddenly had half a dozen boxes show up.... 4 months after they had gone missing and been replaced by the stores I had purchased from. They were all ordered at roughly different times and one was even ripped in two. Recently, we had to mail some packages with items for our wedding. The mail clerk insisted on writing fragile on all the boxes after she found out what was in them. The first box that arrived looked like someone had drop kicked it all over the place and the second arrived wrapped in plastic wrap because the box was soaked in oil. There was no oil in the package. Someone poured or sat it in the oil. Just today My husband confronted our mailman about a package that when missing yesterday and he had "no idea" where it was. About an hour ago he knocked on our door. Apparently he found the package. They had put it into the wrong apartment box. Which they claim never happens. But I have proof that it has at least twice. So I am sure it has happened plenty of times.

Did I say our mail is AWFUL?

HOLY !@#$ omg that's seriously terrible, jeez! I would be afraid to ever mail anything, wow. Did you ever get a refund on anything? They really can't expect you to take losses on such damaged items caused by them.

_John_

we have an automatic gate for the road on our property. Various delivery companies like to put packages on the other side of our gate where we can't to get them without hitting them with an opening gate.

yayamom3

We live on the corner, so people seem unable to decide on which street we live. (I always thought it was common knowledge that your street address is the street the front of your house faces.) Anyway, we are always getting the packages of our neighbor on the other street with the same house number and vice versa. But it doesn't end there. One day I came home, and a roofing company was on top of our house ripping off our shingles! You guessed it, they were supposed to be on my neighbor's roof. But every cloud has a silver lining. Another day, another neighbor called when I got home from work. She couldn't wait to tell me that I had all the windows on my house cleaned for free that day! I'm sure the window-cleaning company was none too happy when they cleaned my windows for free, then had to go to the neighbor's house who actually hired them and clean her windows too.

We have since put a plaque on our brick mailbox that has our street number AND name.

Owlie45

Can't remember what we ordered but they delivered a lot of our stuff to the house in front of ours. He would then put it on his back porch for us to grab. But never told us so it would sit in the rain while we're getting pissed wondering where our package was.

At our old house wed sign for our neighbors packages all the time. The driver would leave a note for them to know it's at our house.

Sha1911

I generally don't have problems with packages, only 1 time the delivery guy left it on my doorstep, it was just some shoes for work, but I was contemplating whether or not to pretend that it never came and tell them to send me another pair! Lol

klkarlen

yayamom3 wrote: »

We live on the corner, so people seem unable to decide on which street we live. (I always thought it was common knowledge that your street address is the street the front of your house faces.) Anyway, we are always getting the packages of our neighbor on the other street with the same house number and vice versa. But it doesn't end there. One day I came home, and a roofing company was on top of our house ripping off our shingles! You guessed it, they were supposed to be on my neighbor's roof. But every cloud has a silver lining. Another day, another neighbor called when I got home from work. She couldn't wait to tell me that I had all the windows on my house cleaned for free that day! I'm sure the window-cleaning company was none too happy when they cleaned my windows for free, then had to go to the neighbor's house who actually hired them and clean her windows too.

We have since put a plaque on our brick mailbox that has our street number AND name.

This is not always true. I lived in a town where my address was where my driveway was, the front of the house faced the other road. The police told me I had to put one of those signs up because whenever one of the neighbors with the same number but different street name had their alarm go off the police would go to my house. Geesh, do you thing perhaps the town planners could have figured out a numbering scheme that would prevent that? Since there were only 30 houses in the whole neighborhood?

yayamom3

klkarlen wrote: »

yayamom3 wrote: »

We live on the corner, so people seem unable to decide on which street we live. (I always thought it was common knowledge that your street address is the street the front of your house faces.) Anyway, we are always getting the packages of our neighbor on the other street with the same house number and vice versa. But it doesn't end there. One day I came home, and a roofing company was on top of our house ripping off our shingles! You guessed it, they were supposed to be on my neighbor's roof. But every cloud has a silver lining. Another day, another neighbor called when I got home from work. She couldn't wait to tell me that I had all the windows on my house cleaned for free that day! I'm sure the window-cleaning company was none too happy when they cleaned my windows for free, then had to go to the neighbor's house who actually hired them and clean her windows too.

We have since put a plaque on our brick mailbox that has our street number AND name.

This is not always true. I lived in a town where my address was where my driveway was, the front of the house faced the other road. The police told me I had to put one of those signs up because whenever one of the neighbors with the same number but different street name had their alarm go off the police would go to my house. Geesh, do you thing perhaps the town planners could have figured out a numbering scheme that would prevent that? Since there were only 30 houses in the whole neighborhood?

That sounds very similar to my neighborhood. I had the house alarm thing happen to me too! It scared me half to death, because we have a son away at college. And when the doorbell rings at 6:00 am on Saturday morning, and you open the door to find a police officer, your mind thinks terrible things.

dc8066

PuppetPrincess wrote: »

Our post office is awful. It is actually a huge common problem around here. About half my packages claim to be delivered according to tracking but never show up. There was once that I suddenly had half a dozen boxes show up.... 4 months after they had gone missing and been replaced by the stores I had purchased from. They were all ordered at roughly different times and one was even ripped in two. Recently, we had to mail some packages with items for our wedding. The mail clerk insisted on writing fragile on all the boxes after she found out what was in them. The first box that arrived looked like someone had drop kicked it all over the place and the second arrived wrapped in plastic wrap because the box was soaked in oil. There was no oil in the package. Someone poured or sat it in the oil. Just today My husband confronted our mailman about a package that when missing yesterday and he had "no idea" where it was. About an hour ago he knocked on our door. Apparently he found the package. They had put it into the wrong apartment box. Which they claim never happens. But I have proof that it has at least twice. So I am sure it has happened plenty of times.

Did I say our mail is AWFUL?

That's my post office! Are we neighbors?

dc8066

I suspect that my mail delivery person suffers from some form ADD. He or she left a bunch of mail addressed to my neighbors all over the building (none of it was mine) sitting in my mailbox for almost four months. Then, there was another badge tied with a big rubberband laying on the floor by the mailboxes - that was mail for the whole neighborhood including the police department. And the last time I was away for a few months, my mail was forwarded to Mars. Still have no clue where the heck it went

km8907

My Masters diploma was shoved and bent into my mailbox, though clearly stating on the envelope not to bend.

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melmelw03

GnothiSeauton23 wrote: »

I rarely have any issues delivering my package around the holidays.

I'm currently available for deliveries.

jennybearlv

I have been pretty lucky with the major delivery companies. However, I once ordered something form Costco that used some delivery company called OnTrac that required a signature. I'm home all day waiting for this package and it never shows. I check tracking online and it says the driver attempted delivery but nobody answered. I give them a call and they say someone will be out the next day. Same thing. After a few days of this nonsense I check the door of the same apartment number of the complex next door. Their door is plastered with missed delivery notices. I eventually did get my package but have not dared to order from Costco again.