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Old 10-22-2015, 12:37 PM
 
Location: San Quilmas, Tx
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If you live on the NE side of San Antonio and ordered something expensive from Amazon.com in 2014 up to the middle of 2015 and it never arrived read this:

SAPD: UPS workers accused of theft, selling items to third man
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Old 10-22-2015, 03:31 PM
 
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I'm sure it wasn't just stuff from Amazon. The company I work for shipped me a brand new laptop and several other expensive pieces of equipment in a single box. It showed "On truck for delivery today" but the truck never showed and they never changed it to "delivered". Assumed at that point it was an internal theft at UPS. They had an investigator call me and ask me questions, but not much I could tell him other than that it had never arrived. They had to pay the company. I figured that UPS would have some pretty significant barriers to this kind of thing considering their tracking...but I guess not.
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Old 10-22-2015, 04:31 PM
 
Location: San Quilmas, Tx
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I should have made the post more inclusive of companies but I would surmise that Amazon was one of their biggest customers. I believe a million dollars was the cost to Amazon for the losses but still, not bad of a payday for the thieves. Although nothing was mentioned I'm sure when they dig far enough there's going to be a few more lose their jobs over this.
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Old 10-22-2015, 04:51 PM
 
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I should have made the post more inclusive of companies but I would surmise that Amazon was one of their biggest customers. I believe a million dollars was the cost to Amazon for the losses but still, not bad of a payday for the thieves. Although nothing was mentioned I'm sure when they dig far enough there's going to be a few more lose their jobs over this.
No doubt you are right. And I think it is UPS that is out the million bucks. That payday for the thieves will figure prominently in their sentences.
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Old 10-23-2015, 06:26 AM
 
Location: West Grove, PA
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Some people shouldn't be allowed to reproduce.
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Old 10-23-2015, 11:08 AM
 
Location: San Antonio, Texas
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Can you imagine walking through a crappy flea market and walking up to a table full of new hi dollar stuff????
What idiots; how could they not think they wouldn't get caught!!
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Old 10-23-2015, 07:45 PM
 
Location: Tejas
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how could they not think they wouldn't get caught!!
I think that is what they thought.
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Old 11-12-2015, 10:40 AM
 
Location: San Quilmas, Tx
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And there is probably more to come:

Fourth UPS employee arrested in large-scale theft ring in San Antonio - San Antonio Express-News
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Old 11-12-2015, 07:52 PM
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I remember hearing a related story ~15 years ago in another city. A driver for one of the shipping services picked up a load of customer shipments from a major catalog retailer and then made an unscheduled stop. He stopped at a busy parking lot and sold some of the packages right off of the back of the truck before taking the truck to the terminal!

Probably harder to get away with a move like that today, now that we have better GPS tracking.
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Old 11-13-2015, 08:55 AM
 
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This may explain what happened to my Bath and Body works package a couple of years ago.....
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