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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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With COVID they are leaving items without signature, of course not just outside, but would inside a porch.
For me, I've been working at home for quite a while, I also have holiday booked, and I've been meaning to put up a security camera for ages, so hopefully I'll be covered in multiple ways.
The UK doesn't have as much of a problem with stolen items as the USA does, but I feel a camera is the best option to prove something hasn't been delivered (or put down in your porch, photo taken then taken again, or even taken by another delivery driver).
I guess the US is so varied, outside of urban areas a courier may have made a 40minute+ trip off the main route to get just to the area where you are with no other deliveries within a radius of that.
If you live in the UK or Europe you might struggle to understand the scale of that. Hell you might even struggle to understand that next day delivery is not an everyday offering
If I have to pay someone to be at home on delivery day, I will. I'm soooo burnt this year IDGAF about money anymore (at least for now).
I will be home for the Series X delivery. My wife will be home for the PS5DE delivery. I'm expecting the Series X not to arrive until the early evening though, same as when I took the day off to be home when the PS4 was arriving.
I'm going to get my NaNo writing and my excersize done. I'm going to get dinner prepared, etc, so that I have all evening to enjoy the console.
I'm going to get my NaNo writing and my excersize done. I'm going to get dinner prepared, etc, so that I have all evening to enjoy the console.
Going to do what my Gran did and follow the completely fool proof plan of leaving a note on a piece of paper, so large that it can be seen from space, on the front door, asking the postal worker to leave the item in the shed.
No bad things can happen with that
No bad things can happen with that
If I had to I'd take the day off or switch my work from home day but alas, COVID, so I'm working from home for the foreseeable future anyway.
Depending on courier, there are scheduling options, and depending on where you live you can have packages held for you.
Depending on courier, there are scheduling options, and depending on where you live you can have packages held for you.
+1 WFH due to covid.
Even before Covid I worked from home 2 days a week and could be home for a big delivery like this.
Even before Covid I worked from home 2 days a week and could be home for a big delivery like this.
You should do that then sit inside your shed looking creepy , holding a big axe
How is selling vacuum cleaners from home working for you? I know you were your region's best door to door sales rep back in the day. The transition must have been difficult.
I am back to selling Fuller Brushes via the internets. People are going crazy cleaning their homes right now.
Wfh got 2 ps5s coming from shopto and amazon.
Will be looking at any delivery van that comes close to my house and waiting on doorstop once they stop
Horror story time though did same for ps4 when amazon delivered my ps4 i saw the guy drop my package from about a foot... nearly went and had a go but i remembered how well they are protected in box.
Will be looking at any delivery van that comes close to my house and waiting on doorstop once they stop
Horror story time though did same for ps4 when amazon delivered my ps4 i saw the guy drop my package from about a foot... nearly went and had a go but i remembered how well they are protected in box.
Yeah they used to require signatures, then only required them for expensive items, then just said "it's cheaper if we just leave it, not our problem. Didn't want your package stolen? Shoulda been home during this 12 hour window".
I've been a brushless man ever since we bought the cottage in the woods with hardwood floors. I find myself vacuuming everyday, so I can attest to keeping a house clean.
In regards to the question at hand, I live in such a remote area that I most delivery people struggle finding it. Also, my wife is mostly working from home due to a certain virus. So between those two things, I hope the consoles will arrive safely.
Hell yeah.
I was gonna be creepily sat in their regardless, might as well get the axe.
Though, I would argue that it's hard to look anything other than creepy when in a shed.
I know delivery guys are doing a tough job especially with covid and everything . I meant it's strange they just leave your stuff outside to be stolen. Here a courier will contact you first to see when you are home or you can go to the nearest drop station for the delivery company. I live in Saudi Arabia and shopping online has become huge especially with covid.
I work from home so just keep peeking out ...EVERY 5 FRACKING MINS. My friend who lives in a ...not as nice part of Brooklyn ( to say the least) is having it delivered to me and will pick up later.
I'll be home and live in a building so it wouldn't be left outside regardless. If I were in that situation, I'd have the courier hold it for pickup or deliver it to a local pickup location.
Thankfully, I've been working from home since March. So I'll be sitting at the front door, shotgun in hand. 😏
I'm hiring a private security firm to watch the roads most likely taken by the UPS delivery truck leading to my house. I've also have resources checking every traffic light and street cameras to monitor the truck. Along with state speeding cameras to make sure the truck isn't going over the speed limit for potential risk to damaging the system. I adopted 3 guard dogs to watch the left, right, and front of my house plus a coupe of hawks incase of threats from above.
Thinking of mounting those mini-turrets from goldneye that follow you everywhere you go - gotta check with my HOA if that's okay.
Thinking of mounting those mini-turrets from goldneye that follow you everywhere you go - gotta check with my HOA if that's okay.
Working from home so I'll just wait for it
I'll be chain vaping on the steps to my apartment. The complex is OK, but it has a community portal where residents report groceries, people accepting wrong food deliveries and even fucking sewing machines getting stolen. I might even wait for the delivery truck in my car. In reality though, I probably don't need to do any of that but better safe than sorry.
Yeah. The delivery guy will call me on my phone to ask me to be ready to receive the package in 10 mins or so. End of story.
I live in a condo in Canada, so three things happen (with the pandemic rules etc); Canada Post puts it in the parcel locker, leaves the key in the mailbox (safe), Canada Post will come up and leave it in front of my unit door after knocking (safe since I live with my family and someone's always home), Canada Post decides to hold it at the post office (safe).
With Amazon and the Series X, they do the same; either put it in the parcel locker or leave it in front of the unit door (After knocking/taking a picture etc).
Since I will have tracking numbers, as soon as I see delivered I'll call my family to check the front door. If it's not there, it's in the locker.
With Amazon and the Series X, they do the same; either put it in the parcel locker or leave it in front of the unit door (After knocking/taking a picture etc).
Since I will have tracking numbers, as soon as I see delivered I'll call my family to check the front door. If it's not there, it's in the locker.
I've worked from home for the last ten years, so this hasn't been an issue for me for a long time. I truly feel for the people that have to deal with this for all their valuable packages.
Fedex just delivered my $500 desk frame to a neighbor down the road on Friday. I'm lucky they are good people and brought it over
Wouldn't that cause complaints? What if you have time-sensitive mail?
Unless a package specifically states that it requires a signature, no delivery service in the US will bother with trying for a signature. We're supposed to ring the doorbell and just walk away as waiting for a signature would add so many minutes and hours to the day/week that we'd never finish and if we had to bring back everything we didn't get a signature for we'd overrun the warehouse in like two days. Like, especially right now, we're operating at levels so far above where we should be for this time of year that Christmas is going to be a slaughter.
For my own work, I always leave boxes flush up against the house either behind something if that exists or just try to get it out of sight of the road. I've moved packages from other couriers closer because they're not taking that extra like two steps up to the house to get it there. If it's small it goes inside the screen door/storm door, if I can see a driveway that goes back behind the house I'll check for a back door because that's going to be safer. A lot of houses don't have that though and there's nothing else for it.
And now with COVID we're actually told to not really knock or ring doorbells or touch houses or anything at a customer location at all unless it does absolutely require a signature. At least with Express we're tracked every 6 seconds and it tags when we scan the package so if someone called and said hey, my package is gone, they can just check and see that yeah I was standing directly in this spot next to the house or if I'm a dumbass, hey I'm standing out in the street so who knows where it is. I don't know what Ground does for that but we're entirely separate companies.
I'd just watch tracking throughout the day. That's what it's there for. And I know the company I work for that I won't directly name is doing the delivery for Playstation Direct (I don't know if it's by Ground or Express though) so I know people will get tracking numbers for that.
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The last time a customer had my phone number through work they called me while I was on vacation to harass me asking where their package was and got extremely mad when I said I was on vacation so I had no idea.