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What are you going to do to prevent your PS5/Xbox Series pre order delivery from being stolen while you are at work?
- Thread starter Ser_Luke
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Took off that day, only time I'll be out of the house is when I pick up my cousin's Xbox from Best buy down the block at 6:00 am
Fuckers put a big package right infront of my porch.
Not even the little alley where my door is and it hides everything. Its like 2 feet away.
NOOOOOOOOOO. It's gotta be right at the front of the porch where you can see it from across the street. Fuckers. I cant trust them.
So yeah, taking a few days off.
Not even the little alley where my door is and it hides everything. Its like 2 feet away.
NOOOOOOOOOO. It's gotta be right at the front of the porch where you can see it from across the street. Fuckers. I cant trust them.
So yeah, taking a few days off.
Yeah, it's very uncommon to just drop without a sign here, just small packages, but still very rare.
I've been working from home since March due to Covid, so I'm going to be home when the PS5 arrives. It's more a matter of the delivery person being able to get into the building to deliver the package. Sometimes the manager isn't in the office, and only rarely does the delivery person actually come up to the apartment to knock on my door. Lately, the Amazon delivery person has been leaving my packages outside of my apartment door, which has been great.
I'll be watching the tracking like a hawk, and hopefully they'll call or message me. I've never pre-ordered a console from Best Buy before, so I'm not sure what to expect from the timeliness/reliability of their delivery service.
I'll be watching the tracking like a hawk, and hopefully they'll call or message me. I've never pre-ordered a console from Best Buy before, so I'm not sure what to expect from the timeliness/reliability of their delivery service.
My company is WFH til at minimum Spring 2021. Only difference is I'll probably work downstairs or out on the porch with a portable AC if it's warm (South FL)
Order the consoles directly via drones to the inside or the backyard of the house. Oh wait what happened tot hat concept?
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Picking mine up in store because Australia and we're not plague ridden. That said our postman is shit, he just leaves stuff in his van for a week or two until it builds up, then comes out to the rural area where we live when he has to due to space. No post at all for two weeks now, expecting a shitload on Monday or Tuesday.
I work from home and the Alexa/phone notification for the delivery is pretty much instantaneous. And absolute worst case scenario, my neighbor has cameras that cover a decent chunk of my lawn and driveway
This. Also means you can pick it up in the morning instead of waiting until whenever they swing by (usually ~4 pm for me)
I work entirely from home, and I have the day off for each console (one happens to just fall on a day off anyways). Picking up my XSX from Best Buy whenever I wake up on the 10th. Assuming my PS5 arrives via UPS, I'll use their 'Follow My Delivery' thing to know when to be ready for it.
I feel like this is just a US or maybe North American problem? We don't get deliveries left on the doorstep in the UK. We have to sign for it. In the case of Covid, due to contactless deliveries, the courier only leaves it if someone answers the door. And even then they take a picture of the box they're delivering.
I remember reading somewhere a few years ago that a courier left someone's $5000+ Mac Pro on their porch. If that was stolen, who's liable?
I remember reading somewhere a few years ago that a courier left someone's $5000+ Mac Pro on their porch. If that was stolen, who's liable?
I've had it sent to a friends house who is working from home at the moment who can take it in for me.
So weird to me that packages are just left outside in the US. In the UK they take it to the depot if you're not in.
I work in a small office (less than 15 people) and we are allowed to have personal package delivered there, so I'm all set :D
What's kind of crazy is that UPS and FedEX used to require signatures but over the years they moved away from it. Now everything from small packages to TVs just get dropped off at your doorstep.
Assuming my covid test is all good, I'll be home and quarantined for two weeks starting Tuesday. I'm more worried about it being marked as a missing parcel...
That is how it is in the US as well but most have opted into allowing them to leave packages that don't require signature.
I'd be happy if they left it on my doorstep. Imagine having your package outside your property, 150ft from your door but just 20ft from the street. My delivery people refuse to open my gate and come into the property because I have a dog warning sign posted at the entrance. If your loud truck isn't met with barking before you even park, my dog is not outside. You're safe.
I live at 18, on the street side there as a 18A.
The mail men will not even delver it at 18, they will either force it on 18A (even if I need to sign for it) or send it back claiming my address does not exist D:
My iPhone 12 Pro had me camping outside 18A :P For PS5 I chose in-store pickup, even with covid
The mail men will not even delver it at 18, they will either force it on 18A (even if I need to sign for it) or send it back claiming my address does not exist D:
My iPhone 12 Pro had me camping outside 18A :P For PS5 I chose in-store pickup, even with covid
I took the day off. Living in NYC it's necessary if I don't want it stolen. Package theft has been up in my neighborhood this past month already, and you know there's going to be multiple groups patrolling across the city looking for packages that day. Sony Direct uses FedEx and depending on the driver, they just leave packages on the steps without ringing. My laptop required a signature, and the dude just left it there. I'm going to be on lookout all day lmao.
No problem. They deliver to my door in the evening (after work hours) with a 30 minutes notice before they arrive. If for some reason I'm not home they take the package back with them, and I have to arrange a new day for delivery or pick it up myself at the local post office.
Sometime ago I saw videos of these thieves caught on camera, simply disgusting.
Out of curiosity, was package stealing always a thing?
Here if there's nobody home you need to pick it up at the closest post office (They try to deliver it 3 times)
The only thing that sucks is that sometimes the delivery man wants to get home earlier and writes that "Nobody was home" LOL
Out of curiosity, was package stealing always a thing?
Here if there's nobody home you need to pick it up at the closest post office (They try to deliver it 3 times)
The only thing that sucks is that sometimes the delivery man wants to get home earlier and writes that "Nobody was home" LOL
Taking the package with them to try again later, dropping it off at a pick up point, making appointments so that residents are home etc. etc.
Here they ring the neighbour's and give it there with a receipt left for you it's at the neighbour's or they come back later. Then after 3 times not possible to deliver. You can pick it up at a certain location.
