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Discussion => Shipping => Topic started by: dkmonk on March 08, 2012, 05:59 pm
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My packaged says delivered, but signed by S. Smallwood! We have no S. Smallwood in our phonebook even and there is definitely no package here.
I looked and I gave the vendor my correct name and address, so why would it not be delivered to my house, and signed by S. Smallwood?
Could S. Smallwood just be the local deliver person? Or is something very strange going on?!!!!!
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Can you clean up that post?
Remove the name that signed for that package - might be a good idea until you know what's going on . . .
That information was too specific and potentially identifiable . . .
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Who the hell ships via Fedex?
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the smallwood is you, because you have a small penis
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Who the hell ships via Fedex?
Somebody who does do any reading, and knows nothing of the law.
Best yet Fedex loves catching drugs shipments.
It would be best just to write on the box, drug inside, please look ;)
Dumbass
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Actually tons of people use Fedex UPS and other shipping services on a regular basis with little problem. USPS is th best way to go though.
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Got a friend whose wife worked in shipping.
Maybe what you say is true.
For sure they use dogs.
Stuff was breaking open, exposing contents.
They would let any legal agent look at stuff.
I don't know sounds risky to me.
Yes there's a lot of drugs flowing through the system.
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Who the hell ships via Fedex?
Somebody who does do any reading, and knows nothing of the law.
Best yet Fedex loves catching drugs shipments.
It would be best just to write on the box, drug inside, please look ;)
Dumbass
Totally not true - I've worked in a FedEX sort facility, FedEX doesn't give two shits about what you ship, they only investigate when there's a leaking package, an odoriferous package, or based on a tip or existing on-going investigation.
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seriously. i worked at a ups sort facility in a major west coast city for a short time like 12 years ago. it was a huge facility with constant conveyer belts full of packages with row after row of bays and workers loading trucks. really frantic. a lot of movement. everyone with a quota. loading packages. over and over. it's still more about $ with private company's like fedex. usps is of course preferable for many reasons, but having something shipped via fedex doesnt make it a redflag. otherwise they'd have to reg flag evertything! hell, back in braver days i've had a bunch of heroin sent domestically, not vacuum sealed, thru fedex, often over night, many, many times. stupid? you betcha!! but i survived.
but vacuum-sealing truly is more important than the carrier you use...in general..
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UPS will only pull a package if it is leaking, needs to be (re)taped, or if it smells funny....and i mean it has to REALLY smell.
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I had an express shipment from CAN arrive safely using a private carrier surprisingly
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I've worked in a ups facility for a short time, and several acquaintances of mine have worked at other ups and fedex locations. All I can say that there is WAY too much going on that the chances of seizure through a sorting facility at either ups or fedex is minimal at best. Unless the vendors are blasted and packaging their orders haphazardly then that could raise a red flag. Would I ever use a vendor who uses a private courier? Fuck no. The risk is minimal imo, but really not worth it.
In the sorting facility that I was at, half the sorters were either drunk or high on coke or pills.
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Got a friend whose wife worked in shipping.
Maybe what you say is true.
For sure they use dogs.
Stuff was breaking open, exposing contents.
They would let any legal agent look at stuff.
I don't know sounds risky to me.
Yes there's a lot of drugs flowing through the system.
The carriers themselves do not keep, nor use dogs of any kind. Customs on the other hand does have dogs that they keep at their checkpoints.
Uniwiz is otherwise mostly correct. If the local cops, DEA, whatever legal authority want to come in and inspect packages as they are moving through the system the carriers welcome them with open arms. The police will often have their own dogs they use for package inspections, but the dogs are not used until they have picked out an already suspicious package.
As for dkmonk's original post it is likely that the local authorities have seized your package but declined to do anything else with it. If they were planning to do a controlled delivery they would not have had FedEx show the package as delivered. This is not a terribly uncommon thing to occur. Some quantities really are not worth their time to pursue.
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My guess would be signature is a fedex inspector or LE. Seen it happen before.