In June I bought a condominium in the same development I have been renting from. I moved from unit 4 to unit 15. A few months later someone moved in to unit 4.
This week I ordered an EEE pc 1000h from Mwave. It tracked as on truck for delivery yesterday. Usually the UPS truck is here between 4:30 and 5:00pm. I waited and waited until around 6pm. Finally I decided to check the tracking again, and it showed as delivered via "front door delivery" at 5:29pm.
I checked my paypal address - yep, it was right. I checked my e-bay address ... wait a minute, it still showed unit 4. Could the seller have shipped to my e-bay address instead of my paypal address?
I hoofed over to my old unit hoping to see the package on the doorstep there but instead I saw the tenant just getting out of her car. I said, "You live in unit 4 right?" She said, "Yeah." I said, "Well I moved from 4 to 15, and somoene accidentally shipped a package to my old address. Tracking shows me it was delivered today." She got a little red in the face and said, "Oh. My daughter won't be happy, she thought she had a new pc." She rushes in and I wait outside the door. A full 5 minutes later she shows back up, with the box ... opened. The inside box the EEE pc was in ... opened. She says, "Sorry about opening it. There was no name on it." Meanwhile I am looking right at my name on the address label.
But ... I'm a non-confrontational sort ... so I say thanks, and head back to my place. It was obvious to me that the whole thing had been taken out of the box but hastily stuffed back in when they realized I was there to claim it.
Twofold question to ATOT:
1) How would you handle it if a package arrived at your door addressed to a previous tenant?
2) How would you have handled the (lying) neighbor differently?
Cliffs:
* Ordered item
* Got shipped to neighbor by accident
* Neighbor opened package and played around with netbook
* Neighbor claims there was no name on the box when it is printed on the label in black and white
This week I ordered an EEE pc 1000h from Mwave. It tracked as on truck for delivery yesterday. Usually the UPS truck is here between 4:30 and 5:00pm. I waited and waited until around 6pm. Finally I decided to check the tracking again, and it showed as delivered via "front door delivery" at 5:29pm.
I checked my paypal address - yep, it was right. I checked my e-bay address ... wait a minute, it still showed unit 4. Could the seller have shipped to my e-bay address instead of my paypal address?
I hoofed over to my old unit hoping to see the package on the doorstep there but instead I saw the tenant just getting out of her car. I said, "You live in unit 4 right?" She said, "Yeah." I said, "Well I moved from 4 to 15, and somoene accidentally shipped a package to my old address. Tracking shows me it was delivered today." She got a little red in the face and said, "Oh. My daughter won't be happy, she thought she had a new pc." She rushes in and I wait outside the door. A full 5 minutes later she shows back up, with the box ... opened. The inside box the EEE pc was in ... opened. She says, "Sorry about opening it. There was no name on it." Meanwhile I am looking right at my name on the address label.
But ... I'm a non-confrontational sort ... so I say thanks, and head back to my place. It was obvious to me that the whole thing had been taken out of the box but hastily stuffed back in when they realized I was there to claim it.
Twofold question to ATOT:
1) How would you handle it if a package arrived at your door addressed to a previous tenant?
2) How would you have handled the (lying) neighbor differently?
Cliffs:
* Ordered item
* Got shipped to neighbor by accident
* Neighbor opened package and played around with netbook
* Neighbor claims there was no name on the box when it is printed on the label in black and white
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