OMG. I had an outrageously rare bottle of wine shipped to me. There was no point in insuring it, because at the time, wine deliveries to Michigan were illegal anyway, so they would never pay. I also didn't want it to attract any attention. I followed the tracking info like a HAWK. Suddenly, it was marked as "Delivered-Front Porch". There was NOTHING on my front porch. Or either of my neighbors. Now I'm a lil frantic. I can't see the road, or mailbox, from my house. I live in a state park and there are only a handful of houses that were present before it became a state park. 1000's of acres of woods. Sometimes, the bastages get lazy and just dump the package aside my mailbox, where ANY passerby or hunter could just take it, unseen. Not there either, Not anywhere on my property that could make any sens.l
I called fedex, who contacted the driver, who swore he put it on my porch. In the 10 minutes from the time marked to the time I went out there, NO WAY did anyone take it. I jumped in my truck and scoured my town for his truck. This might sound extreme, but the value of that package was.. ridiculous. I confronted the poor guy who swore he put it on my porch. I told him i knew for SURE that this was NOT possible. Finally, he hung his head and told me, he had put it IN the mailbox, and couldn't admit that to dispatch. USPS violation, NEVER supposed to do that. I gave that guy a face fulla STANK EYE and went back home, collected my package, and poured myself a very tall glass of something powerful.
Christmas time REALLY sucks. They have no time, and routinely dump multiple packages outside at the street. I'm hoping these Fedex and UPS notification services will help me get my stuff this year before someone else does.
