iPod left at the door.
The good news is my refurb iPod has arrived at my brother's doorstep and will arrive up here in Canada on Friday.
The bad news is that Airborne Express didn't have anyone sign for the package. Just left it at the front door.
Is this normal practice? Sure it was free 2 day delivery, but I keep thinking how easy someone could have just walked off with it.
This would have caused a messy argument of whether or not the package was ever delivered or not.
How difficult is it for them to ring the doorbell and get a signature?
The bad news is that Airborne Express didn't have anyone sign for the package. Just left it at the front door.
Is this normal practice? Sure it was free 2 day delivery, but I keep thinking how easy someone could have just walked off with it.
This would have caused a messy argument of whether or not the package was ever delivered or not.
How difficult is it for them to ring the doorbell and get a signature?
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i bought my ti800 from macwarehouse & they shipped
it free next day air...
hmm its sat so i call up airborne only to be told
theres no sat delivery ...so i go out & come back
4 hrs later and....theres a 3000$ laptop lying outside my apt on the street,,,,
nearly had a heart attack.....
guess people are more honest than we expect.
or
The store waived the signature requirement.
Was this the Apple Store? I just ordered something from them with free Airborne 2-day service.
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Was this the Apple Store? I just ordered something from them with free Airborne 2-day service.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Yes Eugene, it was from the Apple Store.
As long as Apple is aware of the situation.
This is an easy way to pick up a second iPod for free <img src="graemlins/oyvey.gif" border="0" alt="[No]" />
BTW: I've never had a problem with carriers not getting a signature. I've had a problem with them not dialing up the super after they've found I'm not home. E.g. I had to drive halfway accross DC to pick up OS X 10.0 at the FedEx location because they didn't leave the package with my super. In that case, I really wish they'd left the package out in the cold without a signature. (I would have felt differently if it was a $3000 PowerBook, though.)
Escher
[ 12-18-2002: Message edited by: Escher ]</p>
<strong>This is a huge pet peeve of mine, and I always call and chew out everyone I can find. I've had legal documents and confidential docs left outside my door at home and at work. Unacceptable, totally friggin unacceptable. What's worse, twice the courier simply signed my name to the package. I wonder what would happen if you claimed that you didn't sign, but they had your name signed by someone. Bastards. If this ever happens again with a package, I'm goign to quietly collect it and make a giant stink about how it was never recieved. There's a friggin institution called a Post Office. If no one is present to recieve a package all you need to do is place a slip in the door and advise a pickup (with ID) at a post office or one of your depots. Bastards...</strong><hr></blockquote>
Wow. That is actually very illegal and the carrier could possible lose his or her job for that. I agree that the post office is the best (and safest in my opinion) of all the major carriers.
When UPS comes around here they just drop the box off and ring the door bell, and it is very visible from the street since I live on a stop sign corner.
FedEx has been good so far, did the whole signing thing.
<strong>Get a box at mail boxes etc. Plus, you never have to give out your real address to anyone, and if you move, close enough, you won't have to change the address (box address that is).</strong><hr></blockquote>
Everything, supplies and services at MBE is a rip off, especially sending packages through them, but I guess I'm spoiled by FedEx InterNetShip and having a gated twisty driveway.
My confidence in ordering stuff from the Apple Store online is shot unless they can provide secured delivery.
It does depend where you are, though. Service in the New England area, which apparantly has one of the larger clientelles, isn't too bad; sevice in the mid-west is attrocious. One of our vendors called their customer service line to trace a package. Their rep was not only unhelpful, but actually hung up in the middle of the call.
As for leaving packages unsigned, I think that's their policy with residential shipments, though I suppose it could depend on the shipping method chosen (ground vs. next day vs. 2-day, etc.).
Sorry my ass, I'd call it angered jealosy.