10/24/2017 LOUISVILLE, KY (WAVE) – An email Monday let Shannan White know her Amazon package had arrived.
“I went out and checked the mail and there was no package in there,” White said.
Her first thought was theft because she’d heard of recent mail thefts in her Lake Forest neighborhood, but then she checked home video cameras.
It showed a private Amazon courier delivering the package around 12:30 p.m. Monday. When the mailman came around 2 p.m. the same day, the video shows him taking the package out of the mailbox, checking it, and putting it in his truck.
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do it now because in the future shady Amazon guys getting paid $13 an hour could take anything christmas and you will be blamed
It “feels like” Shannan White doesn’t have a clue about the law.
If anyone stole anything from her, it was Amazon whose fly by night internal delivery option didn’t deliver it to her door.
You gotta pay to play. No postage = package is returned to sender. Carrier did the right thing
no note required……Amazon’s problem
Maybe the mail delivery guy should’ve left a note, but maybe he doesn’t know how much postage needed to be on the private Amazon package and went back to find out.
I’ve run into this too. The “race to the bottom” workforce at Amazon is either ill-trained or blatantly breaking the law. Either way, any time I find these things in mailboxes, they come back with me. Kill them with kindness!! Another issue is these Amazon drivers leaving packages at the wrong addresses. Guess who the homeowner tries to hand these back to?! Yup, the mailman.
He did the right thing if the private courier used the box without proper postage. Nobody is allowed to use mailboxes except for the USPS and the carrier has every right to take the package and return it to sender. I was forever finding flyers and business cards and other shit in my boxes that lazy cretins used because they were too cheap or too stupid to know they couldn’t touch those boxes. If this person doesn’t like it, then it’s up to them to tell the sender not to use their mailbox, or at least when she complains to the Post Office to make sure they know the box was used illegally. Maybe it sounds petty and selfish, but the USPS has enough competition worries as it is, and doesn’t need others using their property to deliver their crap. That’s right – mailboxes are federal property, not the property of the customer.
The media is wrong for reporting this as though the USPS is at fault. They did not research the problem before airing the piece. It’s Amazon who should be answering for this incident, not the Postal Service. If you don’t have proper postage, stay out of those mailboxes.
If it doesn’t have postage on it, it can’t go in the mailbox. Amazon should put it on the porch or by a door, not in the mailbox.