Ordered a couple days ago to be delivered via USPS . When tracking online, this is what was shown:
“We attempted to deliver your item at 7:16 AM on November 7, 2007 in XXXXXXXXXXXX and a notice was left. It can be redelivered or picked up at the Post Office. If the item is unclaimed, it will be returned to the sender. Information, if available, is updated every evening. Please check again later.”
Now, I realize i’m probably being way too overcautious, but does this seem kosher? should i be foolish enough to either call (to have them resend)or pick up the package? The only reason i’m questioning this is because my girlfriend WAS at home at that time and there was no notice left. Also, the person that delivers the mail always comes in the afternoon. Any advice would be helpful.
Well I can tell you that if you checked the status of the very unique tracking number UPS’s will know and have a record of your visit. So your jig is up if you checked that from your home computer.
EVERY shipment I have gotten, I have missed the postman and was left a slip to pick it up at the post office or request they resend it, both research chems and aas. If it was too big to put in your mailbox and has delivery confirmation this is the way usps does it. No worries, go pick up your package, if you did indeed get the delivery slip that is.
thanks dean. i had my girlfriend look for a notice, etc. but she saw nothing. i’ll look around. maybe it blew away. i’ve never had a problem getting research chems before but i couldn’t remember if i had them shipped another way (ie: fed ex, ups)the other times.
If I were you, I’d just go and try to pick it up. If the feds have organized an elaborate way to set you up, they’re probably going to get you regardless of whether you show up. Whether or not you sign for the package doesn’t make much difference to law enforcement. (If anything, it’s the trail of money that will get you convicted.)
But that’s just how I would look at it. You need to judge for yourself how much risk you’re willing to accept.
Good luck, and if there are any problems during the pick up, just keep quiet; If they’ve gone to all the effort to stage a delivery, you won’t be able to talk your way out of it, so keep quiet and get a lawyer. Apparently it’s very hard to prove anything relating to mail order, as long as you keep quiet. But you still may end up spending a lot on legal bills. (I have no first hand knowledge, but I read “Legal Muscle”, which is about this topic…recommended!). Again, good luck.
I typically have a different mailman deliver packages, and at a different time from the normal mail. The everyday mailman only delivers letters, large envelopes and very small packages. Something to consider.
There is nothing illegal about purchasing research chems so you have nothing to worry about as long as you don’t plan on ingesting them in the post office.
yeah, i’ve read about the legalities of it all, but was wondering if anyone here actually did get caught, approached, whatever. thanks guys. much appreciated.
I always miss my shipments as well. I once asked the postman (as I walked toward my mailbox while he was delivering) why that was the case, and he told me it was because there were two separate routes that covered my area, and the other guy always took a late lunch.
[quote]Contrl wrote:
I always miss my shipments as well. I once asked the postman (as I walked toward my mailbox while he was delivering) why that was the case, and he told me it was because there were two separate routes that covered my area, and the other guy always took a late lunch.[/quote]
You’ve just got a lazy mailman. I know, I used to be a lazy mailman too. Not as bad as Newman, but pretty close, lol! In the morning when I was sorting out my mail and packages to deliver, I’d card all the parcels that I didn’t feel like delivering beforehand, so the parcel would never leave the post office and I wouldn’t have to lug around a bag full of parcels all day. If a customer asked me, I had a bunch of creative excuses like the “two separate routes” story. As far as I know, one mailman covers one route, they don’t overlap.
Don’t call him on it though if you see him again. Postal workers are a nutty lot, and they take offense to little things. In fact, if you want to get a head’s up on potential problems, like cops sniffing around your mail, be really nice to him. 20 bucks in a card and a bottle of wine for Christmas and New Years will ensure reliable delivery all year. A bottle of scotch and he’ll be really helpful.