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The misdelivered package, who picks it up? It depends on what the package has listed on it in regards to who possibly delivered it. So if the package has Amazon on it with Amazon’s logo, then more than likely Amazon delivered the item, and that’s who you would need to call to come, and pick up the misdelivered package, the same can be said for a DHL, FedEx, UPS, USPS package, and etc., if this doesn’t help then normally you can look at your tracking information, as well as a ping on your smartphone to let you know what company delivered the item, what time of the day was the package left, and normally there will be an email address, or a number that you can call to reach the merchant in the event that a package was misdelivered to your address, depending on the time of the day, it might be possible for the merchant to stop back by your home to pickup the misdelivered package, but with today’s technology customer’s can normally tell where their package was left by calling the delivery merchant in the event that there’s a dispute over if the item was left at your address, GPS technology can pinpoint where exactly was your package was left at, and Amazon normally takes a picture of the package when they leave it at your residence to be able to identify your property with the photo, and in the event that your package might possibly be stolen by a porch pirate, this would be the merchant’s proof that the item was left, before it was stolen. What should you do if you receive a misdelivered package? Call the delivery merchant to let them know that the item was delivered to the wrong address, if it’s not a hassle, and the item is two houses down, and you know your neighbor, why make them wait, take their package to them, if it’s a block down the street, don’t write all over the package with a sharpie, you might smear out their name, and what was once deliverable, has become undeliverable. The misdelivered package, who picks it up? It should be the merchant who delivered it, but sometimes your Mailman will go above, and beyond, and will deliver the item, as a courtesy for you. www.iwantmymail.com More than just a blog!

Porch pirate season begins, watch out for your mail, and packages. Although, Christmas is only 115 days away, people are beginning to order their favorite items for their favorite online stores. So from now all the way through New Year’s Day, porch pirates will be coming to neighborhoods across the country to see if they can steal your packages without you being at home to catch them. One factor that you should always look for is a car trailing behind a UPS, FedEx, USPS, Amazon, DHL truck, and etc., if they wait for the driver to drive off, and get out the car, and walk up to the residence, and ring your doorbell, that could be a test to see if you’re going to come to the door, and if you don’t then it’s the opportunity for them to steal your package. What’s the best line of defense to prevent packages theft? Invest in a camera, or an alarm company that provides 24 hour security for your home in the event that you might be out of town, or shopping at the mall for the next 3 hours, if you have the ability to see the activity going on at your home and you can speak to someone walking up to your home, then you can scare off a thief if they hear your voice, they will assume that your at home, and chances are they will not try to steal your package for the fear of being caught on camera, and the police responding to the theft as well. Things that can help you guard against porch pirates are, if you have a neighbor that is retired, and you ask them to watch your home for package deliveries, normally they will pickup your packages until you come home, if your doorbell is rung, answer the door as quickly as possible if you see that it’s a Postal vehicle, or another delivery merchant, it might be a package that requires a signature, if it’s night time, and you notice that your delivery hasn’t been made yet, turn on a light for the delivery driver for safety purposes, and also porch pirates don’t like to be seen in the light, they’d rather operate in the dark. Porch pirate season begins, watch out for your mail, and packages! www.iwantmymail.com More than just a blog!

New construction, new apartment owners, your packages, your mail! This might sound cliché, but sometimes when an apartment complex is failing under city code compliance, and residents are reporting problems that aren’t being fixed, then new ownership often takes over in the apartment complex to provide a facelift to the property, such as updating the apartment residences, new floors, updated parking lot, and etc., to put the apartment complex back up to code with the city, and to begin to get new tenants to rent the apartments. What is often forgotten is updating the mailboxes for the tenants, if under the previous apartment management the residents weren’t receiving mail because of the mailboxes not having doors, and when inserting a key to open the boxes, and the mailboxes having the potential to fall out of the wall, thus providing a safety hazard for the letter carrier then if the problem wasn’t fixed after upgrading the apartments, then the new residents will face the same issues regarding their packages, and mail as the previous residents. The best advice to new apartment ownership would be to reach out to the Postal Service to discuss where the new mailboxes should be mounted, and what type so that there’s an understanding between both parties, as well as the apartment numbering system to go along with an updated tenant roster so that names can be added to the boxes to recognize who are the new tenants. Access is also a big key, if the boxes are located inside of the building the Postal carrier needs access to deliver mail, and packages, the UPS, FedEx, Amazon, DHL driver, and logistical companies need access as well to deliver packages, the term leave at the door in the event that the resident isn’t home might not be good in the event that there’s a history of porch pirate theft. If the gate code has changed from previous ownership then logistical companies will need this as well, because if they can’t enter the premises then more than likely the package will be scanned as having no access. New construction, new apartment owners, your packages, your mail! www.iwantmymail.com More than just a blog!

The dice game of living in an apartment building with unmatching numbers. One might think that this wouldn’t be an issue, but it’s an even bigger issue than one might believe when it comes to delivering packages, and receiving mail. What are some of the issues that could happen when you live in an apartment building that doesn’t have a number to identify it, as well as unmatching numbers, well first if there’s an 911 emergency, and you say that you live at 19037 Fall River Dr. Apt. 235, and the ambulance pulls up to your building and there’s no number to identify your location, those precious seconds, and minutes lost while they try to make sure that they’re at the right location can make the difference between surviving, or facing death, the ambulance driver has found a group of apartments and the bottom row says apartments 135, and 136, but the upstairs apartments are 257, and 258, which makes no sense at all, but since the apartment building is privately owned, and the company didn’t get with the postal service to setup a numbering system to better accommodate the residents, the tenants of the building now have to suffer the consequences of what the privately owned company did with their property management of the building, if UPS, DHL, FedEx, Amazon, and other logistical providers have to lose 10-15 minutes of their time everyday going on a scavenger hunt to find these apartments to deliver packages to then more than likely they’re going to leave them in the mailroom if the mailroom is inside of the gate, but this isn’t secure because anyone that can enter the building can take the package if it’s left, and the receiver might be out of town on business for the next two weeks, or if your at home, and you have a letter that requires a signature the Mailman feeling pressured to be back in the office on time might not have an extra 10 minutes to spare looking for an apartment when there’s a messed up numbering system involved, so remember there’s a cause, and effect for everything. The dice game of living in an apartment building with unmatching numbers. www.iwantmymail.com More than just a blog!

Ordering items online, and sending them to your work address. Since the boom of the online shopping epidemic has taken effect over the last 10 years, and with the emergence of porch pirates, walking up boldly to your address to steal your packages while you’re away from home, and possibly at home, ordering items online, and sending them to your work address has become a more safer alternative. Why would this be better than sending an item to your address? Well normally most businesses are going to get their deliveries early in the morning, and no later than 3p.m., because of working hours, and someone is usually at the receptionist area to receive items that are going to be delivered that may require a signature, so the item that you ordered will never be left outside, because a business normally requires a logistics company to come inside for the delivery, and with items costing a certain amount of money the shipper normally tracks the item as well, and they want to be able to see where the item was left during the delivery in the event that there is a dispute over an item being stolen, or not delivered. One of the most important things to note is if you auto-ship an item, and you have the item shipped to your place of employment, it’s your responsibility to call the merchant, and have the item shipped to your new address, or you log into the website, and change your address credentials, and update your account for yourself, this also includes your residential address, apartment address, condo address, and etc., because if your UPS, FedEx, Amazon, DHL driver, and etc., don’t know that you have moved, then they will continue to leave the item at your old address if you don’t fix the auto-shipment address. www.iwantmymail.com More than just a blog!

Your address, your credit card, your mail! People travel, on a 24 hour 7 day 365 day rotation, and one of the most important things that we take with us besides our luggage, money, and personal belongings is our credit cards. Some people have a preference to take a credit card with them rather that cash. One of the most important things when applying for a credit card is to have your address down correct, so you fill out the credit card application for an American Express Blue Card, and your address is 5719 Flamingo Road, and you fill out the form with your address as 5917 Flamingo Road, guess where your credit card is going to go to? It’s going to go to the address that you printed on the form for the credit card. What problems can arise from this? First you might be traveling out of town on a business trip to Italy for two weeks, and this credit card will be used to document food that you will be reimbursed back by your company, as well as rental car expenses, so your card is verified as being sent by American Express through the U.S. Mail, and you notice that a mistake was made with your address, the first thing that you should do would be to contact your credit card company, and if you have 5 days left before you leave, normally your credit card company will cancel the other card, and do a rush shipment on a new card, if your Mailman knows you normally they will catch the mistake, and deliver your mail to your house, apartment, condo, and etc., so always fill out a form legibly, because sometimes as humans we make errors, and it’s important to watch your account when dealing with errors, and to correct them immediately as soon as you recognize that you made a mistake. Your address, your credit card, your mail! www.iwantmymail.com More than just a blog!

It’s always good to have a backup camera when ordering packages that are going to be delivered to your home. As we all know porch pirates aren’t going anywhere anytime soon, and they’re becoming more savvy with technology, a customer recently reported that his doorbell camera has a reset feature on it, and the porch pirate proceeded to reset his camera before he started stealing his packages, normally one of the first things that a porch pirate will do is to walk up on your porch to see if you have a doorbell camera on your porch, normally this is a deterrent to them, as they prefer to deal with a porch that doesn’t have a camera, that way they have a better chance of not being caught, if when they walk-up, and they don’t see the doorbell camera start to rotate, and record, they will figure that your camera isn’t working, but they will ring it to see if it sounds off, next they will knock to see if your at home, and normally if people aren’t expecting you, then they will normally not come to the door, so if you don’t answer your door, and your phone has been pinged by your logistics provider letting you know that a package has been delivered, you might have roughly a couple of minutes to grab it before a porch pirate will attempt to steal it. A backup camera is a good idea, in that if you install it in an area where it can’t be reached then normally a ladder will be required for a thief to try to disable it, but chances are slim that they’ll want to go through the trouble to disable a camera, and more than likely they will rarely look above to see another camera has been installed as a backup to catch a porch pirate. Remember, it’s always good to have a backup camera when ordering packages. www.iwantmymail.com More than just a blog!

Roman Numerals used in mail, a gift, or a curse! It really depends on how the individual uses the roman numeral to determine if it’s a good, or bad thing. First, roman numerals are used when the birth of a child is born, and the father, and mom of the child decides to give the child his dad’s namesake, so James Henry Doe II, and his wife have a son, and decide to name him James Henry Doe III, years later the couple decides to get a divorce, so James Henry Doe II, decides to go out and fill out new credit card offers in the name of his 3 year old son, James Henry Doe III, and proceeds to charge up 6 credit cards in his son’s name, before James III, can even apply for a credit card, his credit has been ruined by his Dad. When it comes to mail, and a separation occurs, it’s important to distinguish the difference between the roman numerals in the event that James II is moving out of the house, and James III, is staying with his Mom according to the divorce decree. If James II, has an account that he auto-ships items to his home, he needs to fill out an individual change of address order with the Postal Service, and include James II to distinguish the difference between his name, and James III name, it’s his responsibility to log into his account with Target.com to change his address credentials, as well as notifying his human resources department that his address will be changing, and his information needs to be updated to avoid having to go to his previous address to pick up his check stubs in the event that his ex-wife has an restraining order against him, and he can’t be within 100 feet of his former residence, if Mr. James II doesn’t take care of his responsibilities in a short period of time then he can face the consequences of roman numerals used in mail, a gift, or a curse! wwww.iwantmymail.com More than just a blog!

How to control misdeliveries at duplexes! It sounds like this should be easy to control, but it’s a bigger problem in the logistics world that is often not talked about, until a misdelivery occurs. What is a misdelivery? It’s a item that you ordered from a merchant that is left next door, or on the following street, sometimes often with the same address, but it happens to be on the wrong street. Why does this happen? It could be that the delivery driver thought that they were on Grandberry Street, when they were actually on Fringeberry Street, but you have to look for indicators that could help to let you know that you might be on the wrong street, such as the doormat in front of the door, that might say Singleton family, and the delivery is for the Thomas family, so this should be a red flag that you might not be at the correct house, or street. If your duplex doesn’t have an address on the front to indicate the difference between your property, and your neighbors property putting a name, and number inside of your mailbox can make a difference, for example if you live in unit #A write this inside of your mailbox along with your last name, or your spouse’s maiden name in the event that she might receive mail from her college alumni association, and etc. Purchasing address numbers, or letters at your local Home Depot, or Lowe’s can also make a difference in the event of an emergency, and you have to call 911 for assistance. So remember in some communities if the duplexes are built by the same developer then they might have the same color scheme, and that’s why it’s important to put numbers, and names on your property to control misdeliveries at duplexes. www.iwantmymail.com More than just a blog!

“Carrier, leave the package if no one is present, can be deceiving! What if it’s Saturday, and the business is closed until Monday, and the area that the business is located at has foot traffic in excess of 100,000 people on every given weekend? Would you want your carrier, UPS, FedEx, DHL, Amazon driver, and etc., to leave your box of items that you ordered from Louis Vuitton left on a doorstep of your business over the weekend, hoping that no one will look at the box to read the designer name located on the box? If a business orders items, they should automatically contact the merchant, and let them know that there aren’t any weekend deliveries because the office is closed on weekends, some people have started to order items online to have them sent to their place of employment, which has it’s good, and bad points, in that during the week, the package can be left with the receptionist in the event that the item requires a signature, then you will have to sign for your item, unless you give the receptionist authorization to sign for your package, the bad point would be that on the weekend your office is closed, so you will have to wait until Monday to receive your item from the delivery merchant, unless they leave a notice at your office for you to schedule a redelivery, or you can go to the merchant’s location to retrieve your item.
If you live in a neighborhood where porch piracy is a problem, you might want to use the buddy system with your neighbors in the event that you might be out of town for the week to retrieve any packages that are left on your porch, because if a porch pirate sees the same packages piled on a porch from the previous day, then they will scope out the area to see if they can steal your packages in the event that you don’t have a security camera on your porch to track activity from the porch to the street curb of the residence. “Carrier, leave the package if no one is present, can be deceiving!” Use common sense, and take care of your customers! www.iwantmymail.com More than just a blog!