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Discussion => Shipping => Topic started by: AutonomousLife on June 28, 2011, 08:57 pm
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I've received mail from a prior tenant. I started using this tenant's name to receive my SR packages. I've received several package. Recently, the postman scribbled on some mail that the tenant names need to be marked on the mailbox.
Could this mean that I am being setup for a potential sting?
What should I do? I could do nothing, I could put all the names on the mailbox or I could put just the real names on the box.
It sure has me real nervous, because I'm expecting two deliveries.
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My reply comes from common sense and no specific knowledge aside from what I've read on these forums. It sounds to me as though you are not being set up for a sting yet, as they wouldn't go about it in this manner. They would either set up a controlled delivery or just get a warrant to search your house. It does seem like the mail man has noticed something is fishy so I would definitely stop what you're doing and don't sign for any deliveries. If they ask you to sign for anything, just say you are not expecting any packages and it should be returned to the sender... Someone else may have better advice. I hope I'm right and it's nothing more serious. Good luck.
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I don't think you're being set up.
Just take out the card in your box, or make one, and put the last name of everyone that you want to receive mail there. If it ever gets taken to court, you can say you don't know who put the extra name on there but the old tenant must have a key and all the mail you ever got in their name you returned to sender at a post office.
The mail man is not supposed to deliver mail to someone who's name is not attributed to the address.
Once you get your mail in the old tenant's name, leave it in the box for a few days while picking up any mail that is in your name. Surveillance is costly.
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Sounds like the mailman is just getting suspicious, but I doubt he'd call the police just because the old tenant is "still getting mail." Just have your SR packages sent to another address to avoid further suspicion.
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There is no sting. This is just what happens when you move into a new house.
Some cities make it so you must put down the names of the people who live there in the mailbox.
They probably just want that name in there as standard procedure.
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Actually it sounds like you have a pretty sweet opportunity for plausible deniability. Take advantage. Put the previous tenants name on the box in a different hand writing. I'd say the mailman would have no more reason to suspect anything, unless you order something smelly. ;)
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oh for the love of god.. Why are people still getting deliveries to their own homes, its a recipe for disaster. It even states not to in the buyers guide.
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oh for the love of god.. Why are people still getting deliveries to their own homes, its a recipe for disaster. It even states not to in the buyers guide.
Its just tough, rake: I agree with you, and I find ways, none of which are satisfactory, but generally, it'd be hard to pin some mail in another's name on you, if you get it...I've searched high and low, but houses without tenants, well, someone can see you...and getting and using fake i.d. with a p.o. box? Not easy, and in any case, if you're caught, you've no alibi, while at your own house, their are all kinds of plausible reasons why a letter would show up there...trouble is mostly, that you can't *sustain* it...I've already been asked by my postman, and I had my excuse ready, you know, the homeless guy who asked if he could get mail there, looks like this: blah blah blah...but still, you can't do that but once or twice, before it gets suspicious...
not easy...I got a couple things, but I could get burnt or ripped, real easy...no free lunch...
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how about you sign up online or call those 800 infomercial numbers and start getting a TON of free catalogs (even better, free samples of shit like enzyte, vitamins, memory foam, etc etc.) in your own name or variations thereof . Wouldn't this create more plausible deniability should you get in trouble?
Just say your address somehow ended up in all kinds of mail-order lists and that you've been receiving all kinds of crap (that you discard) all the time?
Another idea from the old forum is to use "Current Resident of".
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oh for the love of god.. Why are people still getting deliveries to their own homes, its a recipe for disaster. It even states not to in the buyers guide.
So.. one could have a package, that looks like all the other packages that come to their house, in the same name, that could very well be from their book trading club or the toothpaste they ordered from Amazon.
Or, they could go snooping around at some vacant address daily or go pickup their mail on camera at a federal facility in a box they only have occasional single packages from cali sent to...