Package stolen off my front porch! What are my options?

[gnomepunk]

My home had an attempted breaking during the day on Monday. The would be criminals tried to kick in my back door, but were unsuccessful. I noticed the black shoe marks on the wood frame last night (Monday) and called the police. The pin in my door lock was broken and the deadbolt is bent. Well I said a little prayer that nothing was missing and no one was hurt, but I was wrong. =/

I have made a few purchases on eBay within the last week or so and was checking up on one that has not shown up yet. The seller said he used USPS Priority shipping and emailed me a delivery confirmation number. I checked the number and the USPS website show the package (my beautiful 4870!!) was delivered at 1:54pm on Monday, December 8th 2008. My wife came home around 4pm and did not notice the box at the front door.

I've called the police back and an officer is headed over to my house right now to update my report. I guess my next move is to contact the Post Office in the morning and report the stolen package. I purchased this item through eBay and paid with PayPal. Do I have any coverage under PayPal's Buyer Protection Policy? I've already checked craigslist in my area as well as all ebay auction added in the past day in my zip code.

Do I have any other options?


Why on earth did someone bump a 4 year old thread? -DrPizza

 

[Cdubneeddeal]

If the tracking shows as delivered you're not covered with Paypal. Did the seller insure the package?

 

[Bignate603]

Did you pay for insurance?

 

[venkman]

that sucks dude. Paypal protection would just take the money back from the seller IIRC and it wasn't his fault.

 

[Farang]

I'm wondering if Paypal would cover it if it wasn't insured even though the agreement was to insure it.. if you never agreed to insure it then lesson learned. If you did and he did insure it, then maybe USPS can help you.

 

[RU482]

is this spam...I could swear this thread occurred earlier today

 

[gnomepunk]

Not spam!

I'm not sure if the seller got insurance or not. It was Priority so I thought that came with insurance. Still waiting on his response. I figured PayPal couldn't do anything for me.

 

[Farang]

What did his listing say? Did it guarantee insurance? If so, regardless if he actually bought it you have a route to getting reimbursed.

edit: if insurance even covers this.. I don't know

 

[jinduy]

you're probably out of luck. ups just dumps my stuff at the front door for all people on the sidewalk to see. that's why i have them ship it to my work.

 

[gnomepunk]

Here is the eBay listing. He doesn't specify that Insurance is included.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISA...X:IT&item=330291130655

 

[gnomepunk]

Nvm: Insurance says None under shipping and handling. I'm screwed.

 

[TallBill]

No idea, but you reminded me of the user GoPunk, whatever happened to him?

 

[DayLaPaul]

Do you have any renter's insurance?

 

[ribbon13]

Be sure to post about this in the dumbest purchase thread!

 

[Papagayo]

I'm not understanding this. Why go after usps, paypal, or sender?
I'm guessing that the package arrived at your door. Someone stole the package from your property. Call your homeowner insurance.
Package arrived at your house, then sender and usps did their job.
Someone attempted to break into your house, stole items from your property.

You just ran into a bad luck, don't blame innocent people.

 

[allisolm]

It won't do much good to call your insurance company unless the cost of the card was greater than your deductible.

 

[compman25]

What does USPS delivery confirmation mean? Do they get a signature with it?

 

[DayLaPaul]

USPS delivery confirmation means when the package is delivered/dropped off, the mailman scans the package as "delivered." There is no signature requirement.

 

[Farang]

Originally posted by: Papagayo
I'm not understanding this. Why go after usps, paypal, or sender?

USPS - if it was insured and insurance covers that
Sender - if he said it was going to be insured and insurance covers that, but he didn't insure it

In both cases he would be able to go after these two, but that is not the case.

 

[meltdown75]

damn, i just wanted to say i'm sorry this happened to you.

i've had UPS leave stuff on my porch too, and felt lucky that it was still there when i got home.

the worst thing about it is that whoever stole it probably doesn't even know what it is.

sorry man

 

[thegimp03]

That sucks, that's a crappy thing for someone to do. Any idea why they're targeting your house? They're likely to come back again. Do you have an alarm system installed? If not, I'd get a Mossberg 500 or something for self defense. Especially if your wife is around the house when you're not home.

 

[dullard]

I know some of this repeats what was said above. But, this is the four steps that everyone needs to do in all these lost package threads.

1) If it was insured, go after the delivery insurance.
2) If it wasn't insured but you paid for insurance, go after the seller.
3) If neither of those occured, go after your home-owner's or renter's insurance.
4) If you don't have home-owner's insurance or renter's insurance or don't want to bother them, put the loss on your income tax form. At least you'll get a sizeable chunk of it back.
5) If you don't buy any form of insurance and you don't pay income taxes, then why would I care?

 

[Red Squirrel]

That sucks. Wonder if USPS could be held liable for this. They should not be leaving expensive packages in the open like that anyway, they're supost to put a sticky note and take the package back with them.

 

[MontyAC]

That sucks. Wonder if USPS could be held liable for this. They should not be leaving expensive packages in the open like that anyway, they're supost to put a sticky note and take the package back with them.

This is an old thread from 2008.

 

[Soundmanred]

This morning the mail lady came and gave my mom, my dads birthday gift my mom ordered online, so my mom put it down on the porch for just 5 minuets so my dad wouldn't see when I brought it in. within the 5 minuets someone came onto my porch and stole the package, I don't even know what one it was my mom is expecting 3 packages, no one was home on the road I live on we have 3 houses on this road everyone has been gone. what do I do?