He rigged a box with a car alarm – one that would only scream when opened. He went to the store, pay for the shipment and, 10 minutes after leaving, the alarm went off. The UPS employees had opened the package, even while they are supposed not to do that.
Richard then went into the shop, confronting the employees with a video camera. The sheriff arrived to investigate, but while the fact that UPS employees opened the package is suspicious, it’s not proof that they stole Richard’s laptop. If you ask me, they should create smart boxes with paralysing poisoned darts against thieves. [News10]
Nodeity
Thursday, December 16, 2010 at 10:28 AMJust another example of why I really hate having stuff shipped from US to OZ. :(
Daniel Busoli
Thursday, December 16, 2010 at 12:06 PMI posted a Acer laptop from Adelaide to Sydney for repair. On receiving it back, after lengthy delays, I noted the box was different, the barcode was cut from the original box and attached to the new, which was sealed with DHL tape. Upon opening the box, the ‘repaired’ laptop had appeared to have been run-over by a truck. It was obviously the fault of DHL; the giveaaway was the DHL tape. I have to credit Acer though who took charge, and immediately sent me a brand new replacement laptop of the same spec. Just goes to show how dodgey employeeds on courier companies can be.
Daniel
Thursday, December 16, 2010 at 12:40 PMLol, I like the bit where UPS reply saying that the employees opened the box “after hearing a noise coming from inside”.
Would you open a large box that made a noise these days, I would think that it would be against there policy?
Denis Hands
Thursday, December 16, 2010 at 10:54 PMI would have liked to have done this to my sisters computer when we had to send it to Toshiba only a couple of weeks back.
We sent it with a miniature black dot, maybe about the size of a 5c coin and it took 30 days on a next day garenteed warrenty to move between Harvey Norman, DHL and Toshiba (1km away from each other)then they called us upon receiving the “lost in transit laptop” to tell us the warranty wouldn’t cover the golf ball sized bleeds in the screen and we had to pay $80 for just getting it there and we should send our stuff earlier in the warranty period if we wanted stuff to be looked at cause they nearly closed our booking (which would have been out of the period for getting it fixed under warrenty if it could) cause it took so long