I've never had any packages stolen and almost always they are left but, then again, I've never lived in a place where I had to worry about that sort of stuff and hopefully never will.

That said, I'd definitely get signature confirmation if I was sending to someone who lived in an apartment/townhome setting.

 

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if you call up the shipping company and they refuse to do anything about it, call the company you ordered it from and they will handle it with the shipping co. They should recoup their money and they will resend you the item.

 

i'm pretty sure with ups it is up to the driver whether or not to leave the package, if a signature is not required.

 

the ups guy that drops stuff at my house hides it in my bushes next to the porch if i'm not there.

 

I sometimes get nervous with packages that get delivered to my apt, but the general rule of thumb is pretty much they don't leave anytrhing. I've had some neighbors sign for my packages and I raised a fit over that to UPS.

Nothing like checking the status of your package and it states that it was signed by some unknown name.

 

It's not the shipping company's fault. It's not the company that provided the good's fault. I'm not going to make them pay for something when they didn't screw up.

If I had shipments signature only, I'd never get them. I work during the day, its not like I can be home when they drop by.

It's not toal bullshit. Requiring signatures is a huge hassle and highly inefficient. Nobody is ever home when UPS/FedEx drops by. If its something extremely expensive I understand, but its just not feasible with EVERY shipment.


Again, its not either company's fault, I'm not going to game the system because some unfortunate shit happened. Shit happens, fuck it.

 

i didn't get a signature confirmation, just a tracking number, so hopefully nothing happens to it. :noes:

 

I don't remember where I read this but I recall seeing that it's the drivers discretion whether or not to leave it if no sig is req.

 

Not in the northeast they don't. All packages delivered to my in Philadelphia required signatures. Unless it was USPS who had access to my locked vestibule. Trenton is not the safest of cities and the delivery companies should have similar policies there.

 

that's what i learned when i worked for ups. they had a video showing how to figure out the best place to hide packages. if it didn't seem safe, you keep it on the truck.