Some at FedEx (probably) stole my M2 MBA

[snak-atak]

The longest it sat was at the FedEx hub in Newark, NJ (13 hrs).

Say no more. But in all honesty, it could have been just as easily been stolen before it ever set foot in the US.

 

[alee]

You are making the assumption phones and laptops are treated the same. The laptops are much lower volume than phones. Also....nice paywall.

Quantity is not the metric for logistics. It's how much real estate it takes. At least 6-8 phones fit in the space of 1 laptop box.

 

[Toratek]

They don't care about that - they're more than likely in it for the quick flip.

Sell the laptop for a discount, collect the cash and disappear. The buyer is the one that gets screwed when the device is bricked.

A buyer acquiring an unwrapped brand new MBA without the original packing materials in the first couple of weeks after introduction, presumably for a cut rate price, is no angel in the transaction either. If people wouldn’t ever buy obviously stolen goods the rate of thievery would probably drop a fair bit.

 

[frostrambler]

I’m 99 percent certain it was FedEx, I had my own iphone stolen by fedex last year. There’s tons of posts on these forums about fedex stealing apple products. Their hubs, and depots are notorious for it. Genuinely surprised Apple won’t move to UPS or even USPS.

 

[KPOM]

There would pretty much be no other opportunity for anyone else to handle the box other than a FedEx employee. Looking at the tracking, it basically went from hub to hub to local office to truck. The longest it sat was at the FedEx hub in Newark, NJ (13 hrs). Once it got to the FedEx in New York, it took all of 19 min to get on the truck, and was delivered shortly after to me.

It was clearly stolen. There would be no need to peel off the labels containing the serial numbers from the white box (picture 2) if it just wasn't packed. Stealing it would be easy, but someone spent a bit of time with the box to scrape off labels. That takes a bit more effort.

Could it be a porch pirate? A sophisticated burglar might know that Apple just released the new MacBook Air, and that they will fetch high prices on the black market.

 

[KPOM]

A buyer acquiring an unwrapped brand new MBA without the original packing materials in the first couple of weeks after introduction, presumably for a cut rate price, is no angel in the transaction either. If people wouldn’t ever buy obviously stolen goods the rate of thievery would probably drop a fair bit.

Yes, but how about 2 months from now, or 3 months from now? There could be many legitimate cases of buyer’s remorse competing with hot merchandise.

 

[alee]

Could it be a porch pirate? A sophisticated burglar might know that Apple just released the new MacBook Air, and that they will fetch high prices on the black market.

zero chance of that. Porch pirate would just take the whole thing. Had to have been upstream of delivery for someone to go through the trouble of taking everything out of the box, scrape off labels, but still completing delivery of an empty box.