The people involved in this case is from China I believe. Can't remember 100%
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Porch Pirate Criminal Network Stole Thousands of iPhones in the U.S.
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With the huge increase in online purchases which are delivered to the home, it's time people start installing one-way delivery chutes in an outside wall of their home, like a tamper-proof library book return drop. Trouble is, the size of packages that can be safely delivered that way is limited.
Question for the Americans here:
Is it not possible to request personal delivery or get stuff delivered to pickup points? I wouldn’t let a book get delivered to my porch when I’m not home, let alone an iPhone.
Is it not possible to request personal delivery or get stuff delivered to pickup points? I wouldn’t let a book get delivered to my porch when I’m not home, let alone an iPhone.
That’s like saying cancer isn’t ideal….or that Siri works.
The movie was horrible. Held me off the books. Are they any good? Comparable in quality to Reacher?
Seems like a pretty simple solution to me: don't leave packages on porches, hand deliver them to a person and have them sign for the package. Add pin numbers to say to the delivering company and it makes it even safer. That's the way it works in Portugal. None of the delivering companies will leave a package on a porch... even if you ask them to. It feels so alien to me that they would just leave a package outside the house.
flight where? To Brooklyn?
Okey maybe Congo or some place near.In recent years, I have had signature-required deliveries dropped at my front door with nary a knock. I don’t know if the drivers are forging the signature or what. The drivers are under such pressure to complete unrealistic routes that one can understand if they are short-cutting the system. It isn’t right and it isn’t an excuse, but it is hard to blame the individual driver when it is the company policy that causes it.
Here in Australia you have to give your name and sign for expensive parcels.
If you’re not home you get a little slip left behind to go pick it up at the post office after a set time (like 4pm) and you have to show ID when picking it up.
Definitely seems like security lapse or inside job.
I NEVER would allow an expensive device like an iPhone be delivered at my door without a signature. I buy them in person, at the Verizon store, in my case, if not at the Apple Store. With Amazon, as well as UPS and FedEx, I have had enough problems with items being delivered at the wrong address (often I get somebody else's packages mistakenly delivered to me, and it is a hassle on my part to take the package back to the deliverer), when I order via Amazon, I always pick the item up at a nearby locker, when I have the choice.
Yet another reason that I’m glad I live in a suburban location that’s less than a 45 minute drive to reach one of the busiest local Apple stores — that happens to be located in a Sales Tax Free state.
Order new Apple products, specify what date & time I want to pick it up, take all major highways to get to that store, pick the products up (no state taxes, thank you) and a quick, and usually pleasant, drive home with the new goodies. Not a chance for Porch Pirate encounter. 👍🏻
Order new Apple products, specify what date & time I want to pick it up, take all major highways to get to that store, pick the products up (no state taxes, thank you) and a quick, and usually pleasant, drive home with the new goodies. Not a chance for Porch Pirate encounter. 👍🏻
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Or the driver delivers it to the Wrong Address. DHL has done this to us several times (always Amazon packages). They supplied blurry photos of the package on a front door patio … not our front door patio. Amazon has always refunded the money but the DHL driver never picks up the errant package to be returned. NEVER!
It got so bad that anything we order, we specify “No DHL Shipping Accepted” before placing the order. We’ve had some European stores refuse to ship any other shippers and, we refuse to order from them. DHL absolutely sux in our area!
It would 100% stop that person from commiting another crime. Hard to crime again when you're dead.
My recent MBA delivered by UPS did not require a signature, but it shipped directly from Vietnam. I’m in California. Maybe the domestic shipments require signatures but not the ones coming directly from the factory. Dunno.
I believe that Apple only blacklist them in the country of origin and even if blacklisted internationally then it Is easier to sell the phones abroad to unsuspecting marks. Once the mark figures out the phone is useless it is too late and they have no way to track down the seller or hold them accountable.