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Old 04-16-2021, 12:07 AM
 
Location: Southwest
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A while back I received a package from Amazon. The contents were missing. I contacted Amazon and they sent another shipment, which I received.

Who probably stole the contents from the first shipment? Postal employee? Amazon employee? Other?
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Old 04-16-2021, 01:04 AM
 
Location: Tricity, PL
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You received an empty box?
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Old 04-16-2021, 07:43 AM
 
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If it was an undamaged empty sealed box, the items never made it into the box.

If it was a partial completed order in an undamaged sealed box, the missing items may have been left out.

If it was a damaged sealed box, the items could be sitting on a floor, back of a van or who knows where.

If the box was undamaged but resealed, anyone handling the package could have taken the items.
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Old 04-16-2021, 09:59 AM
 
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You received an empty box?

It was a large, robust envelope. One end of it was completely open. It looked torn open.
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Old 04-16-2021, 12:13 PM
 
Location: Queen Creek, AZ
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It was a large, robust envelope. One end of it was completely open. It looked torn open.
If it is one of those plastic bubble envelopes, remember those are packed and sealed by robots at the fulfillment centers. Older fulfillment centers use the yellow paper mailers with the plastic bubble lining which are hand-packed.
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Old 04-16-2021, 12:38 PM
 
Location: Elysium
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Torn open can be anywhere in the chain. A good carrier or one cya"ing would have done an additional scan as received with visible damage. Of course he could also do that to cover his own thieving.

Most everyone else just scans the barcode and passes it on for the next office to deal with.

Torn could be damaged or theft,slit is almost always theft.
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Old 04-16-2021, 03:45 PM
 
Location: Southwest
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If it is one of those plastic bubble envelopes, remember those are packed and sealed by robots at the fulfillment centers. Older fulfillment centers use the yellow paper mailers with the plastic bubble lining which are hand-packed.
I don't remember exactly what kind of envelope. I think it was vanila or yellow. It did have plastic bubbles inside.


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Torn open can be anywhere in the chain. A good carrier or one cya"ing would have done an additional scan as received with visible damage. Of course he could also do that to cover his own thieving.

Most everyone else just scans the barcode and passes it on for the next office to deal with.

Torn could be damaged or theft,slit is almost always theft.

It was torn but the whole end of the envelope was torn. It didn't look like damage. It was evenly torn open.
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Old 04-16-2021, 04:46 PM
 
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I don't remember exactly what kind of envelope. I think it was vanila or yellow. It did have plastic bubbles inside.

It was torn but the whole end of the envelope was torn. It didn't look like damage. It was evenly torn open.

I used to work for a freight company that handled Amazon stuff when the 'last mile' was going to be handled by the USPS. The stuff would come in on trailers, we would sort it by zip code, palletize it and then truck it to the PO.


Sometimes stuff would get stuck in the conveyor and rip, or fall on the floor and get run over by a forklift or pallet jack, or a fork would get stabbed through a pallet of stuff. Stuff gets damaged sometimes. Maybe somebody swiped what was in there, maybe whatever was in there got skittered across the floor and is laying in a dark and dusty corner of a warehouse (it happens).
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Old 04-16-2021, 05:32 PM
 
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If it was left on the doorstep, could have been taken from the porch.

Otherwise, the driver is the most natural suspect because they can scan the object to mark it as delivered and then steal the contents and deliver the envelope.
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Old 04-16-2021, 05:47 PM
 
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These days,workers value their paychecks,health benefits more than content of these packages,if there are too many complaints ,the carrier is at risk of losing a good full time job and a paychck which does not bounce and health benefits and pension
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