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Join Date: Jun 2001
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Had a package which got left at the dry cleaners.
Noticed there was a different package for the office down the way. They hadn't picked it up in a few days. I was pretty sure they didn't know it was there.
I go to drop it off for them, they're closed.
I go to the office next door, and ask if they can hand it off.
This of course isn't a normal office, with decent human beings, it's a law office.
"No, we can't. It would be a bad idea for us to hold on to someone else's property."
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MIght be me being sensitive, but that's a dumb story.
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Join Date: Jun 2001
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Might be me being sensitive, but that was a dumb post.
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No, seriously. You're a random 3rd party that walks into a law office, says "I picked up a package at the drycleaners next door to be delivered to the office next door to you. Could you do that for me? Thanks".
You don't see a problem with that? There's good neighbours, and then there's being a good business. And then there's being in a position to realize how bad it could turn out if any one of you, the dry cleaner, the sender, or the receiver are less than above-board or have bad intentions.
Best to leave the package at the dry cleaners where it belongs.
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Join Date: Feb 2002
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Originally Posted by ShortcutToMoncton
No, seriously. You're a random 3rd party that walks into a law office, says "I picked up a package at the drycleaners next door to be delivered to the office next door to you. Could you do that for me? Thanks".
You don't see a problem with that? There's good neighbours, and then there's being a good business. And then there's being in a position to realize how bad it could turn out if any one of you, the dry cleaner, the sender, or the receiver are less than above-board or have bad intentions.
Best to leave the package at the dry cleaners where it belongs.
^^^^This. Law Office did nothing wrong. I wouldn't have taken the package either if I was ANY business in the vicinity and some random person came in and asked me to hold a package that was to be delivered next door.
It's not your package. You have NOTHING to do with the delivery of that package. Once you found the office closed, you should have taken the package back to the dry cleaners where you found it.
Better yet, you should have left it where you found it and not picked it up in the first place.
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Clinically Insane
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Okay, I'll bite.
What kind of paranoid scenarios are you two imagining?
The best way to do something heinously with a UPS package is to take it to my target in person?
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Originally Posted by subego
Okay, I'll bite.
What kind of paranoid scenarios are you two imagining?
The best way to do something heinously with a UPS package is to take it to my target in person?
It's not an issue of there being a "paranoid scenario". It's an issue of you taking responsibility for a package (by picking it up from the dry cleaners) which: a) DOESN'T BELONG TO YOU; b) YOU DON'T KNOW WHO SENT IT OR WHAT IT IS; and c) NEITHER THE INTENDED RECIPIENT NOR UPS GAVE YOU AUTHORIZATION TO PICK THAT PACKAGE UP.
This isn't like taking in a package for your neighbor (which I also wouldn't do unless I knew them pretty well and had an agreement with them in advance). This is picking up a package for BUSINESS which was left at another BUSINESS. You have no right to pick that package up and try to deliver it to the proper business. You are NOT the UPS man.
I don't even know why the dry cleaner let you take that package in the first place. Did the business it was addressed to give UPS the authorization to leave packages at the dry cleaners? If so, that doesn't give the dry cleaners the right to let some random Joe take the package to deliver it. If not, the UPS man screwed up by leaving it there in the first place.
Then again, generally speaking I'm one to mind my own business and stay out of others affairs.
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Next time I try and do someone a favor I'll be sure to have a signed certificate.
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My neighbor can't keep her hands off my mail...
http://audioboo.fm/boos/1033761-package-1
http://audioboo.fm/boos/1033763-package-2
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Clinically Insane
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You know, maybe I wasn't thinking this through. I went to drop that package off today and got severely admonished for touching their UPS package without having gained prior authorization. They even threatened to call the police if I didn't carry the package back to the dry cleaners.
Actually, that's all bullshit. They said thank you, showed concern for me being underdressed considering the weather, and said I should get back to my poodle where it's warm.
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Join Date: Jun 2000
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Originally Posted by subego
... and said I should get back to my poodle where it's warm.
Please do not explain this part.
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Clinically Insane
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ITT: Lawyers don't act like normal people
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Man, subego just goes around stealing packages. In the USA, no less, where you could face any number of lawsuits and interesting cops.
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Originally Posted by The Final Dakar
ITT: Lawyers don't act like normal people
It's because their jobs are risk assessment. They're trained to analyze what could go wrong for their clients, so they can help their clients avoid problems.
When you look at it that way, there are some very good reasons why they would refuse subego's package.
Also, they could be heterosexual. /zing
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I would accept a package for my neighbor, delivered by an official UPS person or mail carrier. I might be a little leary of random person delivering said package.
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Games Meister
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Originally Posted by ShortcutToMoncton
It's because their jobs are risk assessment. They're trained to analyze what could go wrong for their clients, so they can help their clients avoid problems.
When you look at it that way, there are some very good reasons why they would refuse subego's package.
Yes, when you look at the world through a lens of technicalities and paranoia this indeed makes sense.
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Hey, we deal with avoiding problems. "Holding someone else's mail package delivered by an unknown third party" has a lot of problem potential.
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2001
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Originally Posted by ShortcutToMoncton
Hey, we deal with avoiding problems.
Some day you will look at things like the hu-mans. Learn like the hu-mans. Maybe even love like the hu-mans.
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....get sued for the failure to deliver a time-sensitive business package after accepting delivery of it....like the hu-mans?
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Clinically Insane
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That would suck. You'd have to hire a lawyer.
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