Tis the Season for Package Theft

[OakLeaf]

I'll bet the recipient's homeowner's insurance would cover it, if it's expensive enough to be worth filing a claim.

On a related note, I am just loving UPS My Choice and I wish the other companies had a service like that. Once you sign up, you get an email notification when anything is being shipped to your name and address. Then you can have it held for pickup (free) or re-scheduled or re-directed ($5). There's a premium subscription service as well, that I think lets you re-schedule or re-direct at no additional charge, and maybe has some other benefits.

[Trek-chick]

Fed Ex has the same service. Just call their toll free number with tracking and can have it held at nearest location etc. I tried to with UPS but could not have it done without paying $40 for their premium service once I signed up--just wanted to pick up at nearest location but, coiuld not do it and did not want to pay extra for that....

[OakLeaf]

Fed Ex has the same service. Just call their toll free number with tracking and can have it held at nearest location etc. I tried to with UPS but could not have it done without paying $40 for their premium service once I signed up--just wanted to pick up at nearest location but, coiuld not do it and did not want to pay extra for that....

That's the beauty of the UPS service though, it's keyed to name and address not tracking number, so even if I didn't know a parcel was coming, I still get the email. This just happened to me last week, actually, I got an email about an unexpected parcel going to somewhere that I wasn't going to be for a while. I was able to get the shipper to redirect it too, so it isn't costing me anything.

I think maybe your issue was trying to set it up after the fact. I hold for pickup all the time, we prefer the trucks not come to our house at all because they tear up the lane, and it's never cost me anything.

Last I checked (and it's been probably a year) FedEx Ground and FedEx Express have separate depots, only Express parcels can be held, and only the shipper - not the receiver - can put the hold on. USPS obviously can hold everything or nothing, but not specific parcels (which is why we have a PO box ). In fact I know FedEx doesn't, because DH has had a recurring issue with a company sending documents to the wrong address, and we never know about it until a neighbor or a housesitter or the lawn care company finds the envelope half in the door where it's been for weeks.

[withm]

I have electronics, computers, or other big ticket items delivered to my office.