Have you ever had a ups or fed ex package STOLEN from your doorstep??

I've never had one stolen but I did have a big panic over one. We had a package delivered to our house and when it didn't come, I tracked it. They said somebody had signed with my name the week prior. Well I wasn't home that day, but that is just the sort of thing my in-laws would do and they were around that day. So when I got home I looked all around the house. No package. Asked my husband if his parents said anything to him. No clue (he doesn't remember anything). So we talked to his parents. Oh yes, they signed, package was placed in the garage (with all the other boxes since we had just moved) and they told my husband it was there. Big sigh. Deep breaths...

Right off the bat let me say I HATE Fed-Ex. Back in November 2006 at an internet place I ordered my computer..didn't have my own and had to rely on the internet place...I ordered a "customized" Mac computer with a lot of bells and whistles...So get a notice by Apple when to more or less to expect it to arrive via Fed-Ex, and gave a date..so I purposely stayed home that day to wait for it's arrival....nada, nothing. Anytime something sounding like a truck, I'd rush to the window...nothing. So then I stayed home the next day, thinking that maybe it would arrive then...nada. Finally I called Apple...you can imagine how I felt when I was informed that my computer was delivered @9:20 a.m. on the day it was supposed to be delivered and was signed by an "Antonio"--WHO THE HELL IS ANTONIO? NO ONE in my building has that name....my take? Someone from Fed-Ex helped themselves to it. Don't ask what I went through..I lived on the phone making zillions of calls to Apple and Fed-Ex...Apple agreed to place a tracer on the package--in the meantime I still had to rely on the internet place to use a computer. A few weeks roll by...out of the blue Apple said they couldn't help me as it was ON record my computer was delivered to me--oh yeah? Wasn't! They told me they could neither reimburse me for the money or send another computer to me Oh---I also tried to make a claim against Fed-Ex--they DON'T cover mis-delivered items...only damaged--what smucks Finally I got my bank involved and made a claim--it wasn't until then that Apple agreed to either send out a new computer or send the money back to me...I opted for the money...NO WAY was I going to have Fed-Ed deliver it to me...so took myself to the Best Buy that is fairly close to me and hand-picked out a computer and literally took it home in my own two hands (with help of a cab)--but it wasn't until February of 2009 that all this was settled!

I don't recall ever having a package from FedEx or UPS getting stolen off my doorstep, at least not while living in my current home. I did however have FedEx miss my house entirely before. My husband had been home so he could receive the package that was expected to arrive that day, while I had taken off to run some errands. On the way home, I spotted a FedEx van about a quarter mile away from my house. I was guessing it was the van that had our package. When I got there I asked my husband if we got our package yet and he said no, that they didn't come by yet. So one of us looked up the tracking order to see if it was on it's way and it stated something how there had been an attempted delivery. Like huh? How could it have been attempted if they didn't even come by the house in first place? Like I said before, my husband had been home expecting this package, so he was waiting for it. I ended up looking up the phone number for FedEx and I told the operator what was going on. He got the delivery guy to turn around and come back so he could deliver it. I wasn't taking any chances, so I stood outside waiting. When he pulled into the driveway and handed me the package I asked him if he had been down the road just a short while before this, and pointed in the direction I had seen the van. He admitted that it was him and that he couldn't find the house. So instead of trying to find it, he just gave up. Oh well, at least I took the initiative and gave FedEx a call. Otherwise, who knows if we would have ever gotten that package.

Well, the delivery people are only human, they do make mistakes from time to time. But that is a very big mistake to make! Just as well they fixed it up!!!

Nope, never had that problem, and I'm glad yours had a happy ending in spite of the hassle. I used to live on a farm and one day I was driving along a remote country road and came across a UPS truck kind of leaning to the right over the culvert. I thought, either a hit and run accident or someone stole the truck and then abandoned it from the way it was situated and the back doors were hanging open. So I stopped my car and climbed inside the truck to check it out. I found the driver in the back lying on his side. As I tried to pull him over, to check if he was hurt, he suddenly opened his eyes, grabbed the nearest package and whacked me one upside the head! Turns out, he'd just pulled over to take a nap! Was I some pissed! lol

I have never had a package stolen but only because all of the delivery services seem to deliver all of my stuff the my neighbors across the street. I have great neighbors but it is anoying because I am the only person on the block with numbers on my house and yet no single delivery person can find it, instead they take it across the street. Even the pizza guys. Thank God for good neoghbors.

This has never happened to me. I live in a pretty good neighborhood, full of nosy neighbors, so even if someone tried this I think that the neighbors would be all over it. Also we have a dog that is half rot and half black lab, so he is pretty big and although he is friendly I think he would still make thieves nervous. Also the packages we get are often small and so they put it between the screen and the door and when it's not they usually leave it at the side door, which is behind a fence and under our car port, so it is pretty secure. That's just terrible that the UPS guy would be so stupid. I can understand that he may accidentally mark it delivered, but for it to say that a woman signed for it is just plain idiotic if you ask me. That's lucky though that this was the case, that it hadn't actually been stolen and that another worker discovered it and got it to you.

I guess I have been fortunate in this area. I have had many many packages delivered during the 40+ years I have lived in the area and I have never had a package stolen. Sometimes the packages sit there all day. Don't get me wrong, the area has it's share of crime, breakins, thefts, assaults, even murder (my best friend's father murdered her mother when we were little). I guess there is some code that says do not mess with the delivery man's items, everything else is fair game

Hi mommyboo, this could never happen as the postman keeps anything that needs signing for in his possession. He doesn't come up to the house but leaves a note where I collect my post to tell me he has something which needs signing for, if I'm lucky I can catch him as he drives around and he'll stop and hand it over, usually though I have to go to the post office at 2 when he returns there and collect and sign for it. He always keeps the things that need signing for with him, not even at the post office when he's out on his travels.

Here in my country you can't just leave a pakage outside the door with no one claiming it. But sadly we dont have tracking systems yet for all of them, only DHL and fedex does that here nothing more. SO if you got a delivery from some other lace normally it is just passed on to relatives till it reaxhes you or you pick it up from point of origin, it would be better that way. Some dekivery guy, (evn postman) don't do there job since it can't be track some of them steals it as well

I haven't had this exact thing happen, but have you ever watched how UPS drivers deliver the packages? They run up to the house, close enough so that they can toss the package onto the porch. I've seen a couple drivers that didn't even get out of their truck! It doesn't surprise me that UPS would do something this irresponsible and sloppy, based on the performance I've seen.