We’ve gone over this in the past: if you receive a package in the mail that you didn’t order, it’s yours to keep. You’re under no obligation to send it back or to pay for it. Things are a little different, though, when you receive something illegal on your doorstep. Say, eleven pounds of marijuana. [More]
When You Receive 11 Pounds Of Marijuana You Didn’t Order, You Should Probably Tell Someone
By June 3, 2013
Marijuana In Drug Case Vanishes From FedEx Truck
By June 28, 2011
Authorities say marijuana that was meant to be used as evidence in a Long Island drug case and was shipped via FedEx disappeared during shipment. Someone apparently opened the box, removed the contents, then resealed the package. [More]
My Online Order Didn't Get To Me, But GameStop, UPS Say It Was Delivered
By December 31, 2010
Bruce ordered an Xbox 360 bundle from GameStop, but says the package never arrived. UPS says it left the package at his door and told Bruce to complain to GameStop, which isn’t responding. [More]
Is Tentacle Grape Soda Real? Because Their Shipment Dates Aren't
By March 13, 2009
Really, grape soda with a tentacle hentai theme (don’t Google it if you’re not sure what we’re talking about, especially if you’re at work) just makes sense. Sex-starved tentacled monsters getting it on with anime vixens just cries out to be packaged as a grape drink and sold. But one reader, Lincoln, says he bought his own 6-pack of the drink back at the start of the year and has yet to see it.
US Airways Delivers Corpse To Pet Store
By March 11, 2009
If you’re a pet store employee, probably the only thing worse than opening up a shipment of live tropical fish to find them dead is opening up a shipment of live tropical fish to find a human body intended for a research facility in a neighboring town. That’s what happened at a Pets Plus in Philadelphia yesterday, and US Airways says the mixup was caused by a “verbal miscommunication between a delivery driver and the cargo representative” and that they’re deeply sorry.
UPS Can't Find Your Lost Computer, So They'll Honor Their Insurance Policy
By May 25, 2008
Remember Nick? UPS smashed up his insured computer and then refused to provide any compensation, even after mysteriously shipping it to a stranger. UPS’ public relations folks reached out to us after we posted his story and recently sent us an update: “…after a search of all UPS’s facilities we were not able to recover his computer.” Bummer, but all is not lost.
FedEx Breaks Your MacBook, Doesn't Deliver It, Says Your Questions Are Irrelevant
By April 24, 2008
We get that accidents happen. What we don’t get is why FedEx won’t tell this guy what happened to his laptop—why it went out for delivery, why it got returned back to the warehouse, why it was then reported damaged and undeliverable, and finally why the person he was sent to for help keeps stonewalling him by responding that his questions are irrelevant.
FedEX Loses Vincent Ferrari’s Package
By December 21, 2006
Vincent ordered two scanners from CDW. One arrived, the other didn’t.
UPS Takes 3 Weeks To Deliver 70lb Smoker, Broken
By November 6, 2006
David ordered a 70 lb smoker from Amazon. For some reason, it shipped back and forth between Washington and Nevada 3 times, over 3 weeks, a total of 4500 miles. When it finally, arrived, it was in pieces.
