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UPS delivery question

rootbrain

rootbrain

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Have heard that Google is NOT requiring signatures on UPS deliveries, can anyone confirm or deny this rumor?
 
rootbrain said:
Have heard that Google is NOT requiring signatures on UPS deliveries, can anyone confirm or deny this rumor?
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Not sure about UPS but TNT in the UK will allow you to put a signed note on your door stating that you would like it to be left with a neighbour.
 
rootbrain said:
Have heard that Google is NOT requiring signatures on UPS deliveries, can anyone confirm or deny this rumor?
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In my experience when you get your tracking number and it shows up on UPS's system, if a signature is required it will say "Adult Signature Required." This is how I found out I needed to sign for my GNex (VZW didn't mention it when I ordered it).

All I did was print out the tracking sheet (that has all of the parcel info) and signed it and wrote "Please use this as an Authorized signature" and they left it on my doorstep.
 
The main reason I ask is I know someone who will be refusing shipment. If no signature is required, UPS will drop the package, ring the bell and be gone. No way to refuse. Then that person will be responsible to get the package shipped back if they want a refund, which will just take longer. :(:mad:
 
rootbrain said:
The main reason I ask is I know someone who will be refusing shipment. If no signature is required, UPS will drop the package, ring the bell and be gone. No way to refuse. Then that person will be responsible to get the package shipped back if they want a refund, which will just take longer. :(:mad:
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Then I would print out the tracking sheet and in very large red letters write I refuse delivery of this package on it.
 
Even when mine says signature required, I just get a little piece of paper, and I write I authorize UPS/Fedex to leave package of front porch, then I sign it and tape it to the door.

They have always left it there for me.
 
If nobody signs then they have NO PROOF OF DELIVERY. So you just say you never got it. Its for them to prove you did, leaving a packet on your doorstep is not proof of delivery?
 
rootbrain said:
Sketchy? Downright dishonest and one of the reasons companies have to build that into the price of things they ship.
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They SHOULD NOT leave anything on a doorstep. In the UK we have idiots that go round stealing things like that, we even get them stealing blinking charity bags!
 
They left mine, no signature. Wouldn't it be kind of easy for them to track the actual unit once it connected to wifi if you tried to say you never received it?
 
Well as to the question. The UPS dude left it on the doorstep and didn't even ring the doorbell so no signature required!!!
 
davewood44 said:
If nobody signs then they have NO PROOF OF DELIVERY. So you just say you never got it. Its for them to prove you did, leaving a packet on your doorstep is not proof of delivery?
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That's a nice try, but unfortunately for you, UPS is one step ahead of you. You know that clipboard that they carry around and scan your package with when they pull up to your house, and sometimes have you sign?

That clipboard has a GPS chip in it, and records all the GPS information for where the package was scanned. It is easily accessible by UPS to find out exactly when and where the package was delivered. So good luck getting away with your precious little scam technique.


Ask me how I know.... I use to work for UPS. They are an extremely technologically advanced company.
 
zachd said:
That's a nice try, but unfortunately for you, UPS is one step ahead of you. You know that clipboard that they carry around and scan your package with when they pull up to your house, and sometimes have you sign?

That clipboard has a GPS chip in it, and records all the GPS information for where the package was scanned. It is easily accessible by UPS to find out exactly when and where the package was delivered. So good luck getting away with your precious little scam technique.


Ask me how I know.... I use to work for UPS. They are an extremely technologically advanced company.
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But you could still claim it was stolen from your front porch, right?
 
zachd said:
That's a nice try, but unfortunately for you, UPS is one step ahead of you. You know that clipboard that they carry around and scan your package with when they pull up to your house, and sometimes have you sign?

That clipboard has a GPS chip in it, and records all the GPS information for where the package was scanned. It is easily accessible by UPS to find out exactly when and where the package was delivered. So good luck getting away with your precious little scam technique.


Ask me how I know.... I use to work for UPS. They are an extremely technologically advanced company.
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Your right, but if it gets stolen the supplier is liable in uk courts not the customer. The supplier would have to give the customer a refund.

Leaving it on the doorstep would NOT constitute a delivery in a uk courtroom.

I presume it would be the same in the US?
 
pappabacon said:
But you could still claim it was stolen from your front porch, right?
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I think that is irrelevant as the minute you, or someone else turns it on and connects it to WiFi google will know where it is and what account signs up on it. It is pretty much useless without being connected.
 
Unforgiven said:
I think that is irrelevant as the minute you, or someone else turns it on and connects it to WiFi google will know where it is and what account signs up on it. It is pretty much useless without being connected.
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I agree, so my flippant remark that started this discussion is null and void.....lets move on. :D
 
Well UPS supposedly left my package on the front porch, no knock, no doorbell. Can't find it anywhere. Only place I haven't checked is the neighbor's house
 
palmtree5 said:
Well UPS supposedly left my package on the front porch, no knock, no doorbell. Can't find it anywhere. Only place I haven't checked is the neighbor's house
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Good luck, that's probably worse than me not getting mine yet.
 
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