I receive a lot of FedEx deliveries to my home, work related. My company ships everything Standard Overnight signature required. I can confirm, Covid halted the signature portion and it has not returned.
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Stolen Bass Alert - Portland area (Nash content)
- Thread starter jimmyb
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UPS has always made a big deal about package intercept. UPS was always a union delivery at least when I used them. Their policy was 3 local delivery attempts and then they would hold it at their hub for a local "last mile" pickup. Fed Ex was about the best of the FedEx, UPS & DHL delivery that wasn't USPS. I always preferred USPS, their "hub" is the neighborhood post office main facilities. DHL, they started to pull out of markets, so DHL would get it close & then turn the package over to the USPS for "last mile"/mail box/doorstep delivery. That's why I always preferred a seller with USPS delivery or FedEx. The UPS delivery was notorious for the driver/deliverer to drop & damage. I bought a server off ebay once at an apartment complex. The UPS guy mule-ed it in from the parking lot and then dropped it at the door step. Damaged 1U server that weighed like 80-100 lbs.
Anyway, with the drug addicts/homeless that wander the larger cities, sometimes one of the neighbors (children) is the porch pirate. Alarming is all the local news stories of children that are being recruited to be drug mules or worse yet, participate in armed home invasions in this area. Crime is just getting worse and locally city has no police department, but rather county sheriff office that is contracted for law enforcement. Sooner or later it will grow. A couple of other cities nearby, local police departments ave even had to contract out the more heinous crimes to the Sheriff's Office that their smaller rural/beach town sized police force simply is not equipped or funded to handle. FCSO here is state of the art, they don't play, they have helicopters, cooperations with the neighboring counties. And they are on top of any drug dealings, pride themselves on taking down drug dealers with routine traffic stops. They use license plate readers & computers to catch stolen vehicles or state => state felons for extradition. They'll take anything, cash, cars, possessions as par of the arrest, which I've read, the cash is used to pay for more police resources. They've been hiring more officers since 2020-2021 in response to what crosses the borders as increased illegal border crossings. We're paying for that in more ways than we can imagine too.
It was better, it seems to be getting worse each day. I hope we never become a sanctuary city in my lifetime, but they keep on finding me and growing every time I relocate to another prehistoric era of FL. Bringing the same brand of drama they have been for the last couple of decades.
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If they don’t supply it with their follow up, ask them to show you the location scan. This should be a map above view of your location and driver scan should be right at your house. This will determine if it was actually delivered to your house. Best of luck, hope this has a happy ending.
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Fed ex and ups never get a signature here anymore even when it is a signature required delivery. They don’t even ring the bell or knock anymore either. They just leave it and go. I’ve looked up tracking and they often make up a name for the signature.
I’ve had a bass delivered to the wrong business once and the wrong house once. Both times I reported it to fedex but they didn’t resolve it. Once I went around to other businesses and found it, the other time the person living at the wrong house brought it to me, thankfully. I recently received someone else’s package, clearly delivered to the wrong address. Called fedex and reported it and they never came for it. I just gave it to a driver the next time I saw one and they took it back
So could be a porch pirate but could have been delivered to the wrong address as well. Either way I hope you get it back or at least get compensated for the loss.
I’ve had a bass delivered to the wrong business once and the wrong house once. Both times I reported it to fedex but they didn’t resolve it. Once I went around to other businesses and found it, the other time the person living at the wrong house brought it to me, thankfully. I recently received someone else’s package, clearly delivered to the wrong address. Called fedex and reported it and they never came for it. I just gave it to a driver the next time I saw one and they took it back
So could be a porch pirate but could have been delivered to the wrong address as well. Either way I hope you get it back or at least get compensated for the loss.
Was this ever recovered? I noticed it’s disappeared from the Nash Bass search I do on Craigslist every day.
Thank you very much. The bass has not been recovered, and apparently my Craigslist ads had expired. I have renewed them thanks to your heads up.
If the shipper pays for signature service, AFAIK it is mandatory that the service provider do it. Nobody likes to pay for it though. If I paid for it and they failed it, I would definitely open a small claims case.
Simpler though is to have it redirected to the local FedEx or UPS store where I can pick it up. Eliminates all the drama and anxiety of high value larceny.
Simpler though is to have it redirected to the local FedEx or UPS store where I can pick it up. Eliminates all the drama and anxiety of high value larceny.
2 things I have learned from this experience
1. Always ship to a FedEx or ups location.
2. Never buy anything from "The Bass Shop" in Seattle ( who shipped the bass no sig required) and refuse to acknowledge thier error
I was going to say the same thing only because it happened to me recently on a bass I sold.
It was never shown as delivered and was dropped off to the buyers neighbor, as I later found out.
Luckily I got verbal confirmation from the buyer that a neighbor brought it to him the next day.
I still opened a ups investigation and to this day it’s still lost in their system.
One thing that I do is carry insurance on all my basses, even if I just purchased it, or even on ones I’ve sold
I get the serial number from the seller and add it to my policy before it’s shipped to me, since I own it once it’s payed for.
That way it’s covered should it get damaged, stolen or lost before it gets to me.
Not to hijack but a Couple questions for you:
Isn’t UPS responsible for compensating for the “lost” instrument?
I wasn’t aware you could get insurance on specific gear. Will any insurer do that?
UPS is pretty useless with their claim system IMO
They’re going to make it as difficult as possible to get compensation which is why I don’t bother with their shipping”insurance “ I gave up on the $100 claim once the recipient called me and told me that his neighbor dropped it off to him. Ups never followed up or called back. As far as I know , it’s still an open claim.
I insure all my gear with musicpro insurance and they cover it anywhere in the world for any reason.
